The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 2: American Identity and the Threats of Tomorrow

We have already discussed in the first part of this analysis how the American geography dooms whoever controls the territory […]

By Aidualc | 20 Jul 18 | Posted in Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Why engage in proxy war? A state’s perspective

Author Daniel L. Byman Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy Editor’s Note:States use proxies for many reasons, writes […]

By Aidualc | 12 Jun 18 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Eastern Europe, North America, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Post-Sept. 11 Wars Have Cost $4.79 Trillion

On Sept. 14, 2001, President George W. Bush visited the still-smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed first […]

By Aidualc | 26 Oct 16 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The European countries that take in the most refugees, in one interactive map

Europe is in the middle of a refugee crisis. Over the past several years, hundreds of thousands of people have migrated […]

By MarketAngel | 15 Dec 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Culture Clash: How ISIS Could Send Europe Over the Edge

By Riyadh Mohammed  The dramatic and tragic images of refugees pouring into Europe from the Middle East represent more than […]

By Aidualc | 23 Nov 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

  By Dalan McEndree  President Putin’s recent moves in the Middle East—to shore up Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria through […]

By Aidualc | 11 Nov 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

Why Shiite Expansion Will Be Short-Lived

Analysis Forecast That a bloc of Shiite states has coalesced in the Middle East is a significant geopolitical development; that […]

By Aidualc | 05 Jun 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Iraq and Syria Follow Lebanon’s Precedent

By George Friedman, Stratfor, Lebanon was created out of the Sykes-Picot Agreement. This agreement between Britain and France reshaped the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 27 Aug 14 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Happiest and saddest countries 2013

The Prosperity Index Everywhere you look in this world there are signs of instability, destruction, hopelessness. Syria is in civil […]

By MarketAngel | 10 Dec 13 | Posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The Future of OPEC

Pump jacks in the Kurdish town of Derik, on the border with Turkey and Iraq, Nov. 25. (ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS/AFP/Getty Images) […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 06 Dec 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Latin America, North America, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)