Geopoliticus September 24, 2014 Contested Border: China, India, and the Asian Century Felix K. Chang Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to India last week was supposed to have breathed new life into ties... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 18, 2014 Seven Flaws In the U.S. Strategy to Counter ISIS Clint Watts (Editor’s Note: This blog post is derived from Clint Watts’ Ginsburg Lecture delivered at the National Liberty Museum on September 16,... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 17, 2014 Turkey’s Shifting Strategic Culture: Part I Ryan Evans (Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.) When Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was recently sworn in as the President of the... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 17, 2014 China and the Islamic State Felix K. Chang The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria might seem far removed from China. But the spread of its sort... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 11, 2014 The Paradox of History John R. Haines “When one’s conclusions can be no more extensive than one’s premises, one is bound to be at a standstill. ... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 8, 2014 The U.S. Can’t Destroy ISIS, Only ISIS Can Destroy ISIS – The Unfortunate Merits of the “Let Them Rot” Strategy Clint Watts During the early 1990s the Algerian government fought one of the nastiest civil wars in recent history against a... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 2, 2014 Potential Implications of U.S. killing al Shabaab’s Leader In Somalia – Ahmed Godane Clint Watts Yesterday, after a long pause in overt counterterrorism in Somalia, the U.S. launched a drone strike near Barawe aimed at... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 27, 2014 Why would the U.S. want to be ISIS’s ‘Far Enemy’? Clint Watts For Osama Bin Laden, the calculation to attack the U.S. seemed simple. To topple apostate regimes throughout the Middle... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 31, 2014 Ukraine Crisis Timeline: Talk of Peace, Acts of War Adrian A. Basora Aleksandr Fisher The destruction of Malaysian Airways flight MH17 has finally galvanized Western European leaders into taking serious action against Moscow’s... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 30, 2014 Hunger for Power in Hungary? The Alarming Nature of Viktor Orban’s New “Manifesto” Maia Otarashvili The recent rise of authoritarianism in Eurasia and elsewhere seems to be encouraging further destabilization of other fragile democracies.... Read more »