Geopoliticus August 1, 2013 Field Notes: Havana, Cuba I never liked avocados. Despite their increasing popularity as a health food, to me they taste like an oily... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 24, 2013 “Vicarious Belligerency” in the Modern World Over at the new War on the Rocks blog I have a new post up about a recent book... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 21, 2013 Turning Point: Japan’s Upper House Election and National Security On Sunday, July 21, the Japanese electorate propelled Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) (together with its... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 16, 2013 Foreign Fighters and Ants: How they form their colonies Swarm intelligence has proven particularly useful over the past two decades in identifying more efficient methods for computer engineering,... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 11, 2013 Out of Center Stage, Is an Israeli-Palestinian Deal Possible? A quick scan of the daily headlines from the Middle East reveals news of unrest, tumult, and instability in... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 1, 2013 Playing the Long Game: Unrest and Changing Demography in Xinjiang The latest bout of violence between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese erupted in Lukqun, a township in China’s far... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 28, 2013 Resisting the Impossible: The Popular Resentment Behind the Gezi Park Protests What is unfolding in Turkey is not a “Turkish Spring,” as many abroad have been calling it. Nor it... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 17, 2013 Al Qaeda in Iraq publicly rebuts al Qaeda’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Two months ago, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI – al Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate) announced its merger with Jabhat... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 12, 2013 A Tale of Two Leakers For a different perspective on the Edward Snowden case than that of FPRI’s Lawrence Husick see my latest entry... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 11, 2013 Amid Tragedy, Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic Aspirations Should be Acknowledged In late May, yet another car bomb exploded at an isolated base in Afghanistan’s famously restive Helmand province, killing... Read more »