Geopoliticus November 9, 2017 There Is Still Room for Compromise in Catalonia The Catalan independence crisis feels intractable. Ministers who defied the Spanish Constitutional Court to organize an independence referendum on... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 8, 2017 Riyadh’s Great Leap Forward? One of the clear analytical distinctions that could be made about the “Arab Spring” (2011-2014) was the marked stability... 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 November 1, 2017 The USA Rights Act: What’s In There? There are now at least three bills pending in Congress to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance... 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 September 26, 2017 David and Goliath in Zimbabwe: How a Pastor Has Challenged Robert Mugabe While Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was deriding President Trump as a "Giant, Gold Goliath" at the UN General Assembly... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 26, 2017 What a 1991 CIA Assessment on North Korea Tells Us about the Current Crisis The current situation is no ordinary escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula. Those happen with regular frequency, but... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 18, 2017 Our Brave New Nuclear World So now we have a North Korea armed with long-range missiles and thermonuclear weapons. Make no mistake. This is... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 12, 2017 Selling Out the Rohingyas In the past several weeks, much attention has been devoted to the abject plight of the minority, predominantly Muslim,... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 11, 2017 The World May Be Disappointed the Day After the German Election After last year’s victories for Brexit and Donald Trump, liberals looked to Angela Merkel in Germany for hope. The... Read more »