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Graphic Essay: Developing Southern Mexico

One of Mexico’s defining challenges as a country is the stark economic divide between its northern and southern regions. This disparity makes it extremely...

The US Election and Its Impact on the Middle East

As the U.S. presidential election draws near, the United States faces several economic, social and political challenges that will play a decisive role in...

Graphic Essay: Emerging Technologies

From the wheel to the internal combustion engine, new technologies have, for better or worse, fundamentally transformed our society. The emerging technologies listed have...

For the Quad, Economics Is Security

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a loose affiliation comprising the United States, Australia, Japan and India and known more commonly as the Quad, plays an...

The Geopolitics Behind a Normal Meeting

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Small things can reveal much larger geopolitical truths. Such is the case of a recent meeting of the U.S.-China financial working group. The group,...

Graphic Essay: The Fight Against Global Hunger

Last year, approximately 30 percent of the world’s population experienced moderate to severe food insecurity. This means some 2.3 billion people “compromised on the...

The US Makes Its Own Semiconductor Supply Chains

The semiconductor business is booming. According to estimates published in 2023 by consulting firm McKinsey & Company, the semiconductor market will exceed $1 trillion...

US Strategy in Europe

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One of the most important outcomes of the U.S. presidential race may be how it affects the United States' relationship with Europe. Donald Trump...

Searching for a Cause

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The instability in the United States predicted by our model continued this weekend with the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. It should...

The Euro-American Shift

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There are certain pressures that reverberate throughout the globe that can manifest in different realms, including the economy, the military and the legal system....

Graphic Essay: Global Chokepoints in Maritime Trade

Editor’s note: The following is the first of what we hope will be many Monthly Graphics, a visual-rich, subscriber-only essay that complements our long-form...

Herrings and the Courts

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Devoted readers will recall what I wrote in my most recent book, “The Storm Before the Calm,” and in subsequent articles here on GPF:...

Daily Memo: Hezbollah Considers Its Options

Plan for Hezbollah. A senior officer from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps met in Baghdad with leaders of pro-Iranian factions in Iraq to discuss...

The World of Balance

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The international system is always changing. It usually shifts one piece at a time, each one constrained by the system to dampen its impact...

The Demographic Meltdown

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Major news publications around the world are rife lately with articles noting how the decline in birth rates has reached a critical mass. Over...

Remembering D-Day

Overlooking Omaha Beach is a cemetery in which the Americans who died on D-Day were buried. To walk through this graveyard is to walk...

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The Geopolitics of the United States

The United States needed to expand west to the Pacific coast in order to ensure strategic depth, generate economic activity and development and reduce the presence of any threat on its western front.

The rich agriculture area between the Rockies and Appalachian Mountains has an intricate river system favorable for exports through New Orleans Port via the Mississippi River.

North America can only be threatened from the sea and therefore control of the seas plays an important element of American strategy.

After the Soviet Union fell, the United States had no strategic challenger. The US remains the world’s super power and actively works to prevent the emergence of any potential regional power that could one day challenge it.

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The United States is entering a period of domestic disorder that will last a decade or so. The crisis will not affect U.S. foreign policy, even if it looks like it will.

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Dark Clouds Over the Russian Economy

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(click to enlarge) International sanctions, disrupted logistics, rising prices and inflation expectations, and the difficulties of replacing banned imports with homegrown substitutes have placed heavy...

Daily Memo: Russia Comments on Armenia and Plans to Delist Taliban

Security matters. Top security officials from the Russia-led Commonwealth of Independent States are holding a summit in Kazakhstan. At the gathering, the chief of...

China Charts a New Path

Last weekend, the South China Sea was unprecedentedly busy with military activities. For the very first time, the Chinese navy deployed three aircraft carriers...

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