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George Friedman (May 08, 2013)
Several years ago, I wrote a series of articles on a journey in Europe. It was intended both to be personal and to go beyond recent events or the abstract considerations... more
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George Friedman (May 01, 2013)
The civil war in Syria, one of the few lasting legacies of the Arab Spring, has been under way for more than two years. There has been substantial outside... more
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George Friedman (Apr 21, 2013)
By Rodger Baker
Vice President of East Asia Analysis
Read more: China and North Korea: A Tangled Partnership | Stratfor
China appears to be growing frustrated... more
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George Friedman (Apr 20, 2013)
The identities of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing -- Chechen brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 -- appear tentatively to confirm several... more
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George Friedman (Apr 03, 2013)
An era ended when the Soviet Union collapsed on Dec. 31, 1991. The confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union defined the Cold War period. The collapse of... more
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George Friedman (Mar 28, 2013)
The European economic crisis has taken different forms in different places, and Cyprus is the latest country to face the prospect of financial ruin. Overextended banks in... more
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George Friedman (Mar 20, 2013)
U.S. President Barack Obama is making his first visit to Israel as president. The visit comes in the wake of his re-election and inauguration to a second term and the... more
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George Friedman (Mar 13, 2013)
On Jan. 29, I wrote a piece that described North Korea's strategy as a combination of ferocious, weak and crazy. In the weeks since then, three events have exemplified each... more
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George Friedman (Mar 06, 2013)
The global financial crisis of 2008 has slowly yielded to a global unemployment crisis. This unemployment crisis will, fairly quickly, give way to a political crisis.... more
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George Friedman (Feb 20, 2013)
Airstrikes by unmanned aerial vehicles have become a matter of serious dispute lately. The controversy focuses on the United States, which has the biggest fleet of these... more
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George Friedman (Feb 17, 2013)
By Lauren Goodrich and Marc Lanthemann
The future of Russia's ability to remain a global energy supplier and the strength the Russian energy sector gives the... more
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George Friedman (Feb 16, 2013)
By Reva Bhalla
Vice President of Global Affairs
As U.S. President Barack Obama's second-term foreign policy team begins to take shape, Iran remains unfinished... more
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George Friedman (Jan 30, 2013)
North Korea's state-run media reported Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the country's top security officials to take "substantial and high-profile... more
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George Friedman (Jan 20, 2013)
Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the United States would transfer the primary responsibility for combat operations in Afghanistan to the Afghan military... more
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George Friedman (Jan 09, 2013)
Last week I wrote about the crisis of unemployment in Europe. I received a great deal of feedback, with Europeans agreeing that this is the core problem and Americans arguing... more
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George Friedman (Jan 05, 2013)
The end of the year always prompts questions about what the most important issue of the next year may be. It's a simplistic question, since every year sees many things happen... more
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George Friedman (Jan 03, 2013)
A borderland is a region where history is constant: Everything is in flux. The countries we are visiting on this trip (Turkey, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and Poland) occupy... more