A United Nations Centered Workout of the North Korea Situation
One would think it unnecessary to point up the potential for disruption of a functioning international order now before us in the stand off...
Can Diplomacy Help Navigate an Upcoming Worldwide ‘Valley of Disappointment’?
The current worldwide slowdown in productivity gains may reflect a combination of decreasing energy returns on energy investments in fossil fuels, and limitations on...
Putin’s Problems
There has been much to-do in recent months and years about what have appeared to many to be Vladimir Putin’s bold, aggressive moves in...
Reconstituting Syria
Public discussion of the Syrian situation has tended to focus on the plight of the Syrian refugees and their effects on neighboring countries, the...
Some Applications of Non Equilibrium Thermodynamics Thinking to Current Geopolitical Issues
In recent decades, there has been a development of several related concepts, some under the category of thermodynamics, which may be applied, to some...