Russia, Pakistan, North Korea: Nuclear Powers at Play
Russian President Putin engaged in a bit of saber rattling when he announced that Russia would field more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles...
The Reluctant Dragon: Chinese Intelligence and Global Priorities
While China has accepted human security as a new framework to study modern security challenges, it has been very busy trying to show how...
Geopolitical Research: To Quantify or Not to Quantify?
As I have explained before, geopolitics can have a wide array of meanings and concepts. However, what about when we seek to apply geopolitics...
The False Diplomacy of Torture
So the United States Senate released its report highlighting extreme and supposedly ‘abhorrent’ techniques used on terrorist targets after 9/11 to glean greater intelligence...
The Metrics: Reload. How much from online activism to actual manifestation?
Social movements are usually understood as a positive aspect of democracy and international community takes kindly to the use of media – especially social...
“Top Secret” Turkey is No Secret
In 2013, Turkey hosted about a dozen conferences on cyber security and new technologies to counter cyber threats. In a speech at the end...
GRI Weekly Risk Outlook 22.12
New U.S. consumer sentiment data to keep improving. Central Banks in Armenia and Turkey to deal with rouble and Fed policy. Second round of...
GRI Weekly Risk Outlook 15.12
US Fed to give more precise details on timing of rate change at FOMC meeting on Dec 16-17. Greece announces snap elections for Dec...