More: Geopolitics
Strategic Patience Paid Off: Russian Regional Hegemony in the Caspian
It has been almost one year since the IV Caspian Summit in Astrakhan, Russia, where the presidents of the five Caspian states signed a...
Putin’s Possible Libyan Pivot
The bad cloud that portends a perfect storm continues to build. Perhaps the most serious development on the near horizon is a possible Putin...
A New Great Game in the Caspian: NATO and Russian Countermeasures
Russia has worked diligently to keep NATO from entering its perceived geostrategic territory, even if that comes at great personal cost to the nation,...
Outflanking Iran: The Salman Canal Proposal
The Riyadh-based Arab Century Center for Studies published a report last month that calls for a 950km canal to be built through Saudi Arabia...
Dethroning the ‘Dollar Dictatorship’
Authors: Dr. Matthew Crosston , Andy Deahn Russian President Vladimir Putin has loudly projected that his nation and the other Caspian nations will leave...
China: Team Players or Team Captains?
As China, projected to be the dominant state of the next century, continues to grow exponentially, many regional and global powers are concerned about...
Multiculturalism and peace studies
This special report seeks to examine how multicultural and peace education have been viewed in Brazilian and North American literature, as gleaned from both...
Arctic Geopolitics: Future Conflict beyond the Caspian
Russia is not a littoral nation of just one great body of water in the Caspian. It also has its entire northern expanse along...
The new world order and China’s role in it
Thirty years ago China's share of world trade hovered below 1% but has increased more than tenfold since. Every year since the turn of...
The Rise of South-South Development
In an era when we all seek an alternative, from foods to music to lifestyle, it should come as no surprise that the international...