Geopoliticus November 20, 2017 Jamaican Shipwreck: Will Merkel Go Down with the Ship? For more than a month, representatives of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister... 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 August 24, 2016 Are You Staying, Or Just Passing Through? The Geopolitics Of Asylum European politics have been roiled over the past few years by the question of how the EU as a... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 6, 2015 Greek Debt, Austerity, and the Myth of the Hypocritical Hun Sunday’s referendum in Greece, in which more than 60% of voters rejected the latest offer from the so-called “troika”... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 19, 2015 Bundeswehr 2.0: A German Military for a New Normal A visit to Germany’s military history museum in Dresden reveals just how deeply ambivalent modern Germany is about its... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 27, 2014 Merkel in Westminster Angela Merkel makes for an unlikely cheerleader. Nevertheless, as the European Union’s senior head of government, and the leader... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 7, 2013 Winds of Change: Comparative Energy Security Policies The meltdown of three reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on... Read more »