April 24, 2012
A year ago, a group of superior US officers with Republican credentials were involved in a geopolitical brainstorming session at the National Defense University in Washington. The group was asked to provide answers regarding the US’ place in the world and to outline a ten-year national security plan. Edward Luce was invited to attend and… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
April 17, 2012
In an intelligent and highly readable essay, Fareed Zakaria, a close Obama adviser, analyses the fundamental changes in the distribution of power in international affairs, away from US dominance. He claims that what we are witnessing today is one of geopolitics’ “tectonic power shifts”, the third in the last five hundred years in order of… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
April 10, 2012
One of the key issues in IR & geopolitics is that of hegemonic transition. In the space of only thirty years, the world as we knew it has gone from bi-polar (international affairs dominated by the USA and the USSR) to unipolar (with the US as the only superpower left), to what is now a… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
The 20th ASEAN summit took place last week in Cambodia. It ended after two days with a Phnom Penh Declaration, which basically reiterates the members’ commitment to establishing the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015. The summiteers were greeted in the capital’s Peace Palace by huge billboards depicting the smiling faces of the Chinese president Hu… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
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April 6, 2012
If we are to believe Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group and David Gordon, former director at the State Department, we have been living – for a number of years now – in a leaderless world, after decades with the US at the helm.. For the two specialists in geopolitics and geo-economics, as well as for… » read more
Posted by Florian Pantazi
