Field Notes: Havana, Cuba
I never liked avocados. Despite their increasing popularity as a health food, to me they taste like an oily...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Field Notes: Havana, Cuba
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Geopoliticus
“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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...