For policy wonks and international-relations enthusiasts, Stratfor Global Intelligence is a political dream-come-true. I usually agree with their analyses, but they are still insightful when I do not. (Stratfor is a group of hard-core realists who sometimes discount the role that irrational ideology plays in the international arena.) Here are the group’s reports from the […]
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Stratfor Updates
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Europe, Globalization, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Law, Oil, Palestine, Politics, Russia, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
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Geography is Destiny
May 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Britain, China, Culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Europe, Globalization, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Oil, Palestine, Politics, Russia, War
Robert Kaplan, writing in Foreign Policy, writes that geography has always laid the foundations for conflict throughout the world in the past and present. The article is your assigned reading for today… Continue reading
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Attacking Iran
April 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Hizbollah, Iran, Islam, Israel, Oil, Palestine, Politics, Russia, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
David Samuels writes that Israel will definitely attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and that it might just be good for the world: …Destroying a respectable number of Iranian centrifuges will end Iran’s march to regional hegemony and eliminate Israel’s chief rival for America’s affections while also allowing Israel to gain the legal and demographic benefits of a […]
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Iran is Dying
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Energy, Feminism, Finance, Hizbollah, Immigration, Iran, Islam, Israel, Law, Oil, Politics, Religion, Russia, Sex, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
The ever-excellent Spengler reports some astonising findings on Iran: Iran is dying. The collapse of Iran’s birth rate during the past 20 years is the fastest recorded in any country, ever. Demographers have sought in vain to explain Iran’s population implosion through family planning policies, or through social factors such as the rise of female […]
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When Nations Decline
January 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Britain, Business, China, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Energy, Europe, Globalization, Oil, Philosophy, Politics
Whenever I think about the United States, I cannot help but remember the following quotation from Scottish historian Alexander Fraser Tytler on the purported cycle that all countries and empires go through: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From […]
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2025
November 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Business, China, Culture, Economics, Education, Egypt, Energy, Environment, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Hizbollah, Immigration, India, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Law, Lebanon, Oil, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Russia, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
What will the world look like in seventeen years? See here for the U.S. Department of National Intelligence’s answer… Continue reading
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October 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Business, Economics, Energy, Iran, Israel, Liberal Pundits, Oil, Politics, Russia, The Middle East
The Middle East is feeling economic stress as well: For many of the financially strapped nations of the Middle East, the oil-rich countries of the Persian Gulf have served for years as an economic lifeline, providing jobs for their citizens, who in turn sent millions of dollars back home; tourists, who filled their hotels when […]
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Total Recall
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, China, Economics, Energy, Food, Globalization, Oil
Another week, another product recall from China. Many observers, myself included, have noted that the future of manufacturing will always be in China (at least until another low-cost competitor arises). Perhaps we are wrong. Many businesses have been moving their operations to China because the labor costs and government regulations there are so much lower, but […]
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