All posts in Geopolitics

Population growth & sustainable development
April 1, 2015, Comments Off on Population growth & sustainable development

Overpopulation, overconsumption – in pictures Sprawling Mexico City rolls across the landscape, displacing every scrap ...

Islam and Islamists
January 16, 2015, Comments Off on Islam and Islamists

Reaction to Charlie Hebdo [see I am (not) Charlie] has included wide-spread analysis, commentary and soul-searching by a ...

Israel – Palestine/Gaza 2014
December 31, 2014, 1 Comment

Security Council resolution on Palestinian state defeated The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday failed to adopt ...

Turkey 2012 – 2014
December 30, 2014, Comments Off on Turkey 2012 – 2014

Dreams of Kurdistan — A journey through Kurdish identity. (Al Jazeera Magazine) Kurdistan is a kind of dream: an a ...

ISIS/ISIL 2013-14
December 30, 2014, Comments Off on ISIS/ISIL 2013-14

Alastair Crooke: You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia The dr ...

U.S. Foreign Relations in 2013 – 2014
December 29, 2014, 1 Comment

Kevin Drum: Obama’s Foreign Policy: Frustrating, Perhaps, But Better Than Most of the Alternatives (Mother Jones) ...

Syria 2013 – 2014
November 26, 2014, 8 Comments

Syria is the prototype place where it’s a proxy war for some regional powers. The camps, so to speak, are the regime i ...

Middle East & Arab World in 2013 – 2014
November 22, 2014, Comments Off on Middle East & Arab World in 2013 – 2014

Alastair Crooke You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia Why sho ...

Canada International Relations – Trade (2013-14)
November 11, 2014, Comments Off on Canada International Relations – Trade (2013-14)

Government of Canada: Canada’s Free Trade Agreements Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) 2014 11 November The ‘Saudi ...

Peter Berezin: A Smarter World: Human Intelligence & Economic Growth From 50,000 B.C. To The Singularity
September 27, 2014, Comments Off on Peter Berezin: A Smarter World: Human Intelligence & Economic Growth From 50,000 B.C. To The Singularity

I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel with Andrew McAfee from MIT at BCA’s annual New York Investment Conference l ...