As the U.S. prepares for a contentious power transition, we invite readers to revisit this 2019 column on how the country's political polarization goes hand-in-hand with its economic core’s shift to the coasts.
Conflict in Nargorno-Karabakh will eventually subside amid renewed negotiations that will have major implications for Russian and Turkish influence in the broader region.
By Sim Tack
The EU is just the latest in a long line of attempts to create a common European destiny. But if its core members cannot pull together, the Continent’s global position risks sliding even further.
By Rodger Baker
The EU and U.K.’s ongoing disputes mirror those when Britain negotiated its exit last year, as both sides try to preserve their trade ties without compromising their national sovereignty.
The thawing Russian Arctic is both a strategic opportunity and challenge, one that may fundamentally reshape Russia's foreign relations.
By Rodger Baker
With the pressures and opportunities of both a continental and maritime power, China faces an amphibian’s dilemma, as the characteristics best suited for life at sea and life at land may not always prove complementary.
By Rodger Baker
Even countries that still claim to embody Pan-Islamist ideals, such as Qatar and Turkey, are now only doing so as a means to project the unity and strength of their nationalist governments.
By Ryan Bohl
With its regional and Western adversaries distracted, a spike in attacks shows the global jihadist group is well-positioned to return with a vengeance in its core territory.
Whether the lessons of South Korea can be applied in the West remains to be seen.
By Ben West
The combination of desperate workers in strategic industries and decreasing security budgets represents a golden opportunity for hostile intelligence agencies.
Mexico's criminal cartels have shown themselves highly adaptive, and I have no doubt that they will take the COVID-19 crisis in stride just as they have other impediments.
A well-conceived security plan could mean the difference between life and death.
The growing power of Islamic State militants combined with the Mozambican government's limitations and seeming denial of the threat do not portend well.
Contingency plans must be viewed as general guidelines to help provide direction during a crisis rather than strict scripts to be followed to the letter.
Renewed hostilities between Ankara and the Kurds have laid waste to much of eastern Anatolia. Though the intensity of the physical war has diminished, the fight over symbols has not.
The war between North and South never officially ended, but the battle to achieve economic prosperity weighs much heavier on the minds of many South Koreans.
There are abundant reminders in Ramallah, Tel Aviv and elsewhere of the different realities that constrain and pressure each side of the conflict.
The course of events after the Cold War ended may explain why few in Asia share the predominant European belief in the inevitability of a tightly knit global system.
By Rodger Baker
The view of Afghanistan from ground level is very different from 35,000 feet up, or from a world away in Washington, D.C.
By Diego Solis
Traveling through Andalusia reveals the complexity of the region's culture and history -- and the pride its people have in them.
Colombia is not an easy country to govern. Its mountains and jungles have historically harbored towns and villages that have wildly different political worldviews and that have been in constant conflict since the country's independence in 1810. Political identity -- left or right -- has long been a defining feature of Colombia's isolated towns, particularly those in Antioquia department. It is in this context that in 1977 embattled rancher Ramon Isaza gathered forces in the sleepy river town of Puerto Boyaca to fight the FARC forces terrorizing his community.
By Diego Solis
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How geopolitical events so far in 2019 align with -- and diverge from -- Stratfor's annual forecast.
As the end of the year approaches, it is important to reflect on the past, take stock of the present and look ahead to the future.
By Rodger Baker
In this scorecard, we take a critical look at our successes and slip-ups in forecasting the events of the past year.
To write intelligently about the future, it's important to look back at our past performance.
Geographic information systems (GIS) technology has many critical real-world applications. At Stratfor, our in-house creative team uses GIS to create original, illuminating graphics to highlight emerging trends in geopolitics that are defined by geography.
