The war in Afghanistan has been under way for more than 10 years. It has not been the only war fought during this time; for seven of those years another, larger war was waged in Iraq, and smaller conflicts were under way in a number of other countries as well. But the Afghanistan War is still the ...

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The Global March to Jerusalem: Part of the International Campaign to Delegitimize Israel

Over the past few years there has been a Palestinian campaign focusing on the so-called "Judaization" of Jerusalem. A number of related topics have been raised recently in what appears to be an orchestrated ...

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The Russian presidential election, won – as predicted – by Vladimir Putin, was dramatic, not because of the results, which were known ahead of time, but because of the public protest of recent months that marked the election propaganda and preparations. Manifestations of the protest continued even ...

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Simply put, China has three core strategic interests.  

Paramount among them is the maintenance of domestic security. Historically, when China involves itself in global trade, as it did in the 19th and early 20th century, the coastal region prospers, while the interior of China -- which begins ...

Read more: The State of the World: Assessing China's Strategy

In this week's Geopolitical Weekly, George Friedman discussed the geopolitical cycles that change with each generation. Frequently, especially in recent years, those geopolitical cycles have intersected with changes in the way the tactic of terrorism is employed and in the actors employing it. ...

Read more: The State of the World: Explaining U.S. Strategy

A growing immigrant population determined to avoid assimilation.

Leading Islamic groups in Switzerland are seeking to establish a single national representative body that will enable all of the country's Muslims to "speak with one voice."

The organizers say their new "parliament" will be called ...

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The discovery of massive gas reserves off the coast of Cyprus threatens to destabilize the entire region.  

The island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean has for centuries been the cat’s paw of foreign powers, including the ...

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Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a new series on the national strategies of today's global power and other regional powers. This installment establishes a framework for understating the current state of the world.  

The evolution of geopolitics is cyclical. Powers rise, fall and ...

Read more: The State of the World: A Framework