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Daily Memo: More Talks on Ukraine, Europe’s Energy Plans

Geopolitical Futures - March 7, 2022

Russia-Ukraine talks. The Russian military said on Monday it would open humanitarian corridors in four Ukrainian cities – Kyiv, Mariupol, Kharkov and Sumy – to allow residents to escape the fighting. Also on Monday, delegations from Russia and Ukraine are expected to meet for the third round of talks. Turkey’s foreign minister, meanwhile, announced that […]

Daily Memo: Reactions to Russia’s Move on Ukraine

Geopolitical Futures - February 24, 2022

Escalation. Early Thursday morning local time, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Donbass. He said the Russian armed forces would...

New Political Strategies in a New Economic Order

Antonia Colibasanu - January 31, 2022

At several debates I’ve attended since the beginning of the year – and in several responses I’ve received from readers – one question is...

The World in 2022

Geopolitical Futures - January 18, 2022

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see,” Winston Churchill once quipped. Predicating expectations of the future on an understanding...

Daily Memo: Kazakhstan Unrest Spreads, North Korea Tests a Missile

Geopolitical Futures - January 5, 2022

Kazakhstan on fire. With the internet in Kazakhstan shut down, reliable news is hard to come by, but here’s what we know. Unrest that...

Globalization After the Pandemic

Antonia Colibasanu - January 3, 2022

We enter 2022 with the same hope that we had as we entered 2021: that the pandemic will end soon. This time, we will...

2021 Year-End Review

Geopolitical Futures - December 30, 2021

(click to enlarge) Scale: Hit, Partial Hit, Inconclusive, Partial Miss, Miss Global The defining feature of 2021 will be insularity. Countries will simply be too consumed with...

Daily Memo: Bad Economic Signals From Germany, Mercenaries Moving in Africa

Geopolitical Futures - December 17, 2021

German downturn. Germany’s closely watched Ifo business confidence index fell in December for the sixth consecutive month amid COVID-19 uncertainty, supply chain bottlenecks and...

Daily Memo: European Powder Kegs, North American Trade Disputes

Geopolitical Futures - December 13, 2021

Appeal for calm. Foreign ministers from the leading industrial nations of the G-7 called on Russia to de-escalate military tensions on the border with...

The World Ocean Versus the Continent

Jacek Bartosiak - November 24, 2021

For centuries, the power that controls the seas – the “World Ocean” – has successfully stymied continental rivals and dictated the rules of world trade. The...

Japan’s Indispensable Role in Southeast Asia

Phillip Orchard - November 22, 2021

One of the funnier moments of the past few years in geopolitics took place in 2017 in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's bedroom. Duterte had...

Fertilizers and Food Insecurity

Allison Fedirka - November 16, 2021

Next week is Thanksgiving, a U.S. holiday that celebrates, and is celebrated with, food. This year, however, Americans are reckoning with rising food prices....

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