Analysis Regional Directory Asia Pacific Indonesia’s Strategy in the Tariff War Like many countries, it must balance between the U.S. and China.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15. They had spoken many times over the phone, and though there were indications ...

George Friedman is an internationally recognized geopolitical forecaster and strategist on international affairs and the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Friedman is also a New York ...

The Thailand–Cambodia border dispute over the Preah Vihear temple has flown under the radar but its nonetheless geopolitically significant. It stems from an interpretation of the border demarcation ...

Podcast George Friedman on The Atlantic Podcast: Autocracy in America Soviet dissidents have long admired the United States and its Founding Fathers for their attachment to a moral core, the basis for ...

Analysis Regional Directory Middle East and North Africa The Israeli-Druze Alliance of Necessity The group is part of Israel’s broader vision for the Middle East.

Daily Memo: Reactions to the Azerbaijan-Armenia Peace Deal A planned corridor through Armenia has provoked criticism from Iran.

Before he was elected for his second presidential term, Donald Trump promised to end the Ukraine war in one day. Last week, Trump gave Vladimir Putin a 50-day deadline to come to a peace deal on ...

Daily Memo: Russian Departures Rural Russia is shrinking, and Moscow may leave the INF Treaty in all but name.

Analysis Regional Directory Middle East and North Africa Why the Israeli War Is Unsustainable The unity and the capability after Oct. 7 is no longer there.

Analysis Regional Directory South Asia Where India Fits Into New US Strategies Circumstances dictated alignment for decades. But circumstances change.