How Iran, the Mideast’s new superpower, is expanding its footprint across the...
Iran has achieved milestones of leverage and influence that rival any regional power in the past half-century. While there are limits to how far it can extend its authority, Tehran’s rapid rise poses...
View ArticleU.S. ‘Plan B’ for the Middle East. The Occupation of One Third of Syria’s...
The television network RT asked me for a comment around the recent visit to Raqqa done by the USAID program chief together with the CENTCOM Commander. [1] Before addressing the humanitarian...
View ArticleIn a blow to Trump, Europe seeks gas supplies from Iran
The European Commission vice-president for energy union,Maros Sefcovic, said during a visit to Azerbaijan last week that the European Union was ready to negotiate Iran’s participation in the Southern...
View ArticleThe Grand Troika: A Chance for a World New Order
Back in the late summer of 2017 I wrote an analysis of the state of world affairs and international relations after two seismic geopolitical world events occurred almost simultaneously in 2016 – the...
View ArticleOn same day as summit U.S. rattled China, dedicated massive new Taipei compound
The largest U.S. diplomatic compound in all of Asia opened this month in a country with whom Washington does not even have an official diplomatic relationship. On June 12, when the world was...
View ArticleMore Countries Start Exploring Alternatives to the US World Order
There are two countries that more than others show how the Western world order is undergoing a profound change. Japan and Turkey occupy two distinct and diverse geographical areas, yet they share...
View ArticleGrand Strategy Revisited
We live in the world of models, all kinds of them. Some models are simple, others—very complex. The main task of those models is to predict how things, those models describe, will behave depending on...
View ArticleA New Era Of Geopolitical Risk In Global Oil Markets
Amid never ending talk and speculation over how many more barrels of Iranian oil will be removed from global markets once sanctions slated to hit Iran’s oil production on November 6 take effect, some...
View ArticleIs U.S. Geopolitical Strategy Experiencing a Monumental Shift?
The defining question about global order for this generation is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides’s Trap. The Greek historian’s metaphor reminds us of the attendant dangers...
View ArticleDe-Dollarization Spreads: Why These 5 Nations Are Backing Away From The Buck
The past year was full of events that inevitably split the global geopolitical space into two camps: those who still support using US currency as a universal financial tool, and those who are turning...
View ArticlePresident Xi Orders Chinese Army To “Prepare For War”
In just a few short days, China has proved that investors who have been underestimating the geopolitical risks stemming from the simmering tensions between the US and China over the latter’s...
View ArticleTwo Roads Diverged in a Digital Wood
The fact Facebook continues to exist and earn billions of dollars is proof we’re an apathetic, demoralized society which enjoys being abused. — Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) January 30, 2019 By now...
View ArticleThe Power of the Pipes
BERLIN/MOSCOW/BEIJING (Own report) – The privileged German-European access to Russian natural gas could be lost, is the warning, as the battle over the “Nord Stream 2” pipeline persists. According to a...
View ArticleThe Geopolitics Of South-East Europe And Importance Of The Regional...
The geopolitical issue of South-East Europe became of very importance for the scholars, policymakers, and researchers with the question of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire as one of the most...
View ArticleU.S. ‘’Oil Weapon’’ Could Change Geopolitics Forever
In a dynamic that shows just how far U.S. oil production has come in recent years, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Monday that in the last two months of 2018, the U.S. Gulf...
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