Geopoliticus May 24, 2018 Trump’s Summit Cancellation: What It Means, and Where We Go from Here From the beginning, the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un was slated to be a strange event. What... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 7, 2018 Bear at the Door: Poland Ponders its Strategic Environment Russian behavior has long influenced how safe Poles feel. Centuries of fending off or being subjugated by Russia (or,... Read more »
Geopoliticus December 11, 2017 What’s in a Name?: Strategy Behind the “Indo-Pacific” Throughout his tour of Asia in November 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly referred to the region through which... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 2, 2017 Sweden’s Foreign Policy: Nonaligned, But Not Entirely Neutral In late 2014, Swedish authorities spotted what many suspected was a Russian submarine lurking off Stockholm. The incident set... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 28, 2017 Sweden’s Importance to NATO’s Defense of the Baltics Sweden is not a member of NATO. But Sweden is very important to the defense of NATO’s Baltic member... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 15, 2017 Russia’s Existential Threat to NATO in the Baltics NATO seems more united today than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War.... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 7, 2017 NATO’s Baltic Defense Challenge As NATO expanded eastwards after the Cold War, the geography that the Alliance needed to defend changed significantly (See... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 1, 2017 Effectiveness of Economic Sanctions on Russia’s Economy In early 2015, Western leaders thought they had Russia cornered. A year earlier they imposed on Russia economic sanctions,... Read more »
Geopoliticus January 11, 2017 Japan’s Precarious Position in the Asia Over the last few years, Japan’s foreign policy gained a coherence rarely seen in decades. No doubt pressure from... Read more »
Geopoliticus January 4, 2017 Stopover Hysteria: Understanding Tsai’s Stopover in the United States Photo credit: The Office of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio On January 7, President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan will embark... Read more »