Interview: Gabriele Quattrochi on the EU Migrant Crisis
Geopoliticalmonitor sits down with Gabriele Quattrocchi, the Vice Director of Mediterranean Affairs, to discuss the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe.
EU Inks Free Trade Deal with Mercosur
Completed following decades of negotiation, the deal will create a market of over 770 million people. Was it worth the wait?
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.
Analysis: Kurdish Peace Process at Risk as Turkey Bombs the PKK
This past week has seen a sea change in Turkey’s foreign policy, one that threatens to upend the last bastions of stability in an otherwise chaotic region.
Lausanne Accord to Open the Lucrative Iran Market, Remake the Middle East
Détente between Iran and the West is transforming the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East, and governments and investors the world over are scrambling to profit from the new normal.
Can China’s Belt and Road Open Up Landlocked Laos?
As a 420 km high-speed railway nears completion, two Chinese-built highways have been given the green light. Will these projects open up Laos, or make it a crossing point on China’s Belt and Road?
CIA in South America
Fueled by the Cold War and transnational corporate interests, the U.S. has covertly tinkered with the governments of Latin American countries since World War 2, producing an extremely violent and unstable political climate.
Iran Exposed: GPM Interviews the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
This week, Will Sapp of Geopoliticalmonitor.com publishes an exclusive interview from Ottawa with Sheryl Saperia, Director of Policy for Canada from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).
Geopoliticalmonitor.com Reports from the Crans Montana Forum
Geopoliticalmonitor.com’s Europe-based Director of Political and Business Risk reports from the Crans Montana Forum's Homeland and Global Security Forum, held in Geneva, Switzerland (October 15-17, 2014).
Congo Resource Wars
This report examines the current war and genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which started in the mid-1990s, placing emphasis on the roles of Western covert operations, corporations and the plundering of resources that has resulted.