Geopoliticus: The FPRI Blog
Looper: The Asian Financial Crisis Redux?
Financial crises and their associated economic disruptions (or vice versa) can alter the international political order among countries by changing their relative power relationships. What precipitates these crises and disruptions have many origins; but in many cases their underlying causes slowly build up pressures that suddenly erupt in a ruinous episode. Decades of declining economic productivity, big budget deficits, and an overvalued currency eventually led Russia to default on its... Read more... Tags: Asian Financial Crisis, credit, debt, Economics, Southeast Asia, China, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, United States, banking, multilateralism, Abe Shinzō, Mahathir Mohammed, Suharto
Field Notes: Istanbul, Turkey
As the world witnesses the largest rural-to-urban migration in human history, many great international cities have started to feel like carbon copies of themselves. New York, London, and Sydney have more in common with each other than than with neighbors like Rochester, Liverpool, and Brisbane. In these powerful global city-states, their relationship to other centers (or centres) of international culture seems to matter more to defining... Read more... Tags: Istanbul Turkey 2020 Olympics Fazil Say
Market Warriors: Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Matters
Overshadowed by the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, military tensions on the Korean peninsula, and possibly Downton Abbey reruns, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) took a big step forward in April 2013, when Canada assented to Japan’s participation in the partnership’s regional free-trade negotiations. Begun in 2010, the American-led TPP now encompasses a dozen countries: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and... Read more... Tags: Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, international trade, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, RCEP, US dollar
Detecting the radicalization and recruitment of the Boston Bombers
The investigation into the radicalization of the Boston Marathon bombing's Tsarnaev brothers has only just begun. While the picture of the radicalization of the Tsarnaev brothers remains incomplete, many have already pointed to what appear to be obvious warning signs of violence. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two brothers, seemingly became a recruit of his older sibling Tamerlan. However, the older brother Tamerlan showed many classic signs of radicalization and a turn to violence... Read more... Tags: Boston Marathon, Tsarnaev, CVE, Extremism
Venezuelan Election Results
For commentary and pictures from Venezuela in the aftermath of the recent elections, please check out the blog of FPRI’s Vanessa Neumann.
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