Russia Risks Alienating Kazakhstan, Belarus
The Geopoliticalmonitor’s Jax Jacobsen explains how Russia’s recent moves in Crimea may have come at the cost of alienating some of its closest allies.
OPINION: Revolutionary Democracy
Though the list of countries being swept up in a wave of popular uprisings is long and getting longer, pro-democracy activists the world over would be wise to hold off their own celebrations. The wave of ‘people power’ spreading through the Middle East and Africa could just as easily end up hindering international democracy as it could helping it.
Libya and Imperialism
Of all the struggles going on in North Africa and the Middle East right now, the most difficult to unravel is the one in Libya.
Cheap Oil and Political Risk: Venezuela & the Cuban Connection
In this series, Geopoliticalmonitor.com analyzes political fallout from the global plunge in oil prices. Part one focuses on Venezuela and Cuba.
Cheap Oil and Political Risk: Islamic State and Iraq
In this series, Geopoliticalmonitor.com analyzes political fallout from the global plunge in oil prices. Part four focuses on Islamic State and Iraq.
Pakistan Stares into the Abyss
In a stark example of how drastically a situation can change in just one week, it seems that Pakistan is once again teetering on the brink.
Iraqi gov’t assertiveness – July 27, 2009
The Iraqi government’s recent censure of talks between the US government and Sunni insurgents suggests a rising tide of assertiveness in Iraqi politics leading up to general elections in January.
Political turmoil in Pakistan
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has banned the main opposition party’s leader from holding political office, threatening political turmoil in the nuclear-armed South Asian state.
Burma & North Korea: the pariah pair
Warming Burma-North Korean relations raise an uncomfortable question for the Obama administration: Is America running out of foreign policy levers?
War Aims of Israel and Gaza
Israeli and Palestinian power players on both sides of the border calculated that a war would increase their chances of electoral victory, scheduled for early 2009.