
This map shows the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups and Amphibious Ready Groups.
This map shows the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups and Amphibious Ready Groups.
In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast, Emily Donahue speaks with Rebecca Keller, director of analysis for Stratfor's geopolitical team at RANE, about rare earth elements and tricky supply chains.
Tehran will reject any demands to cut ties with regional militias, raising the risk for more violence in conflict zones like Iraq.
Amid growing frustration with its slow inoculation campaign, Brussels will struggle to keep countries from buying China and Russia’s vaccines.
It’s a seemingly simple question. But like so many things in geopolitics, the answer depends on who you ask.
The current geopolitical order, advances in technology and the importance of maintaining competitive advantages favor more economic espionage in the future.
By Ben West
In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, a RANE company, Emily Donahue speaks to Ben West, Senior Stratfor global security analyst at RANE, about his three-part series on the past, present and future of economic espionage.
Like many governments, Russia is increasingly turning to other means to deter, disrupt and reduce the influence of mass protests.
Stay informed about the significant meetings and events the Stratfor team is tracking.
A look at what the coming week will bring -- and a list of recommended Stratfor articles from the week that was.
This map shows the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups and Amphibious Ready Groups.
Tehran will reject any demands to cut ties with regional militias, raising the risk for more violence in conflict zones like Iraq.
Stay informed about the significant meetings and events the Stratfor team is tracking.
A look at what the coming week will bring -- and a list of recommended Stratfor articles from the week that was.
The White House’s renewed criticism of the kingdom’s leadership and human rights record will undoubtedly clash with Riyadh’s own imperatives.
The EU will limit China’s access to strategic economic sectors and continue to confront Beijing over political, human rights and security issues.
This map shows the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups and Amphibious Ready Groups.
Lawsuits against Facebook and Google, as well as newly proposed antitrust reforms, signal a significant evolution in U.S. attitudes on regulating big business.
His party's new legislative majority will enable President Bukele to appoint Supreme Court justices and pass sweeping constitutional reforms.
The intensifying dispute over customs controls could prompt Brussels to retaliate with tariffs on British products.
OPEC+'s decision to maintain production levels will bolster the idea that oil markets are entering a supercycle, contributing to concerns about rising inflation.
Recent data suggests China’s impressive 2020 growth numbers hid an incomplete and unbalanced recovery.
Amid growing frustration with its slow inoculation campaign, Brussels will struggle to keep countries from buying China and Russia’s vaccines.
The measure will likely expose the special deals some EU countries offer corporations, and may also increase support for digital service taxes.
Despite widespread outrage over the terms of last year’s peace deal with Azerbaijan, Armenia's intensifying political crisis is unlikely to spark a resumption of war.
Israel’s push to cut deals with Syria via vaccines could prompt it to pursue a similar strategy to thaw its more difficult relationship with Lebanon.
Stratfor Middle East and North Africa Analyst Emily Hawthorne updates the political and economic situation in Algeria.
In this short video Middle East and North Africa Analyst Ryan Bohl discusses three events to watch for this week.
Stratfor explains Uzbekistan's struggle to maintain internal unity while balancing against its regional neighbors and external powers.
In this short video South Asia Analyst Faisel Pervaiz discusses three events to watch for in the week.
Former CIA intelligence analyst Susan Hasler discusses the “ziggurat” model of radicalization that she and her colleague Cindy Storer built and used while working on counterterrorism efforts.
The United States does not have attractive options as far as its military presence in Iraq, but it has workable ones to achieve its strategic and security goals.
By testing ICBMs and powerful nuclear weapons, the North Korean leader has placed himself in a strategic trap that threatens to leave his country at China's mercy.
By Artyom Lukin
Infrastructure projects have helped Beijing build influence across the globe.
The East Asian nation is at the geographical nexus of the rivalry among China, Russia and the United States. It faces a difficult task navigating its precarious position.
By Jeff Goodson
Rather than trumpet Russia's praises overseas, Moscow's propaganda machine is focused more on undermining the Kremlin's enemies.
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis fought Saddam Hussein, engineered attacks on Western embassies and took on the Islamic State. His death in the same strike that killed Iran's Qassem Soleimani increased local hostility to the U.S. presence in Iraq.
The country's new president is likely to use the questions surrounding the implementation of the 'safe third country' agreement to wrest additional support from the U.S.
By Lino Miani
By sending Turkish troops to defend Libya's U.N.-backed government, President Erdogan hopes to force a cease-fire that will protect his country's oil and gas interests in the Mediterranean and burnish his regional reputation.
By Sinan Ciddi
While there are few obvious historical analogies for the political crisis Britain's scheduled exit from the European Union has precipitated, there is one suggestive parallel -- and it prompts some sobering thoughts.
By Ian Morris
Technology has driven a number of recent major energy finds, but discovery does not always mean that production will follow.
Whether and how people celebrate Christmas is clearly a complicated affair, bearing only a subtle relationship to Christianity itself. The contemporary, increasingly international version of Christmas is less a religious festival than a celebration of affluence, modernity, and above all Westernness. Without anyone willing it, Christmas has become part of a package of Western soft power.
By Ian Morris