The Fall of Assad: Domestic, Regional and Systemic Shockwaves
The fall of Assad in Syria is a monumental geopolitical event, and one that will reverberate on the domestic, regional, and international levels. And whatever the new order that eventually emerges, it will not resemble the Levant of the past.
CBDC with Chinese Characteristics: Political Economy of the E-Yuan
Exploring the potential geoeconomic impacts of the world’s most advanced central bank digital currency (CBDC), China’s e-yuan.
The Russo-Ukrainian War and Mackinder’s Heartland Thesis
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine echoes the theories of Sir Halford J. Mackinder, who noted the critical importance of the Eurasian Heartland in global peace and conflict.
Great Power Rivalry Returns to the South Pacific
After a reprieve in the post-Cold War era, Pacific island countries are once again figuring prominently in the geopolitics of great power rivalry.
The View from Japan’s Military: Intensifying Great Power Competition
Japan’s annual China Security Report sees the zero-sum competition for and against the current international order only intensifying in the years to come.