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- Obama's Pending Foreign Policy Agenda - March 23, 2010
- The United States Congress passed President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform package late Sunday night, ending a domestic battle that has defined the first year of...
- Geopolitical Fortunes of China and Russia - February 16, 2010
- Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou visited Moscow on Monday. Their agendas were different, but their shared purpose was...
- China's Threat: Bluffing or Real? - February 2, 2010
- White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Monday that Chinese sanctions against U.S. companies would not be warranted. He was referring to the Chinese Foreign...
- Germany Picks Up the Slack on Iran - January 28, 2010
- U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA presented the nation with his first ever State of the Union address on Wednesday. The speech focused almost entirely on domestic affairs,...
- Tehran Imbroglio: No Green Revolution - January 5, 2010
- THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT LASHED OUT today against the West's perceived support of anti-government protests by arresting foreign nationals allegedly involved in the Dec. 27...
- Mexico: A Besieged Mountain Fortress - November 18, 2009
- As the southernmost portion of North America, Mexico was dealt a difficult geographic hand. It has a small and limited core territory surrounded by mountains, deserts...
- Russia's Pivot in the Iran Nuclear Issue - November 16, 2009
- From a critical meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev, to an escalating proxy battle between Iran and Saudi Arabia on...
- Hatoyama Debuts Japan's New Foreign Policy - October 28, 2009
- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Monday addressed the Diet -- the Japanese parliament -- for the first time, after his election in late August. Hatoyama...
- Serbia: Russia's Eyes on the Balkans - October 23, 2009
- Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic and Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu signed a deal on Wednesday to set up by 2012 a humanitarian center for...
- An Independent Israeli Foreign Policy? - October 14, 2009
- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak was set to travel to Poland and the Czech Republic on the evening of Oct. 12 for meetings with the Polish and Czech prime ministers...
- Libya: A Hero's Welcome - August 28, 2009
- By Scott Stewart and Fred Burton On Aug. 24, Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill addressed a special session of the Scottish Parliament. The session was called so...
- Russia Pushes Its Way Back Into Ukraine - August 12, 2009
- Russian President Dmitri Medvedev blasted his Ukrainian counterpart, Viktor Yushchenko, on Tuesday, blaming him for creating the worst strain in Russo-Ukrainian...
- Crisis as Opportunity for Iran's Revolutionary Guards - July 27, 2009
- The domestic political crisis in Iran triggered by the June 12 presidential election grew more complex on Sunday. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fired Gholam Hossein...
- The Importance of Russia's Near Abroad - July 21, 2009
- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Kiev on Monday. Thus begins his tour of Ukraine and Georgia, which happen to be the two former Soviet republics Moscow is most...
- Afghan War Threatens U.S. Global Preeminence - July 17, 2009
- With the announcement Wednesday of the deaths of one American and two Turkish soldiers in Afghanistan, July has tied June 2008 as the deadliest month on record for the...
- China and the Importance of Xinjiang - July 9, 2009
- Chinese President Hu Jintao bailed out of the G-8 summit on Wednesday to return to China, in order to deal with the continued unrest and security crackdown in the...
- Unresolved Issues Between Washington and Moscow - July 7, 2009
- U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev, conducted a joint press conference Monday after four hours of talks about a string of issues --...
- Venezuela and the Honduran Coup - June 29, 2009
- Military forces arrested Honduran President Manuel Zelaya at his home early Sunday morning, marking a sea change for the country. Prior to the coup, Zelaya had been...
- Japan's Lost Decade Revisited, Part II - June 25, 2009
- Editor's Note: This is part of an ongoing series on the global recession and signs indicating how and when the economic recovery will begin. Click here for The Recession...
- Japan's Lost Decade Revisited - June 24, 2009
- Revived as a U.S. ally against Communist expansion, Japan rose quickly from the ashes of World War II and within a few decades boasted the world’s second-largest...
- Iran's Battles on the Streets and Behind the Scenes - June 22, 2009
- Over the past 72 hours, the city of Tehran has become a glass house. The windows are a bit dirty due to media censorship, but through Web sites like YouTube and Twitter...
- Netanyahu's Speech and the Peace Process - June 16, 2009
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday gave his long-awaited speech, which was in effect a response to U.S. President Barack Obama's demand that Israel stop...
- Western Misconception Meets Iran Reality - June 16, 2009
- In 1979, when we were still young and starry-eyed, a revolution took place in Iran. When I asked experts what would happen, they divided into two camps. The first group...
- Russia's Bleak Economic Outlook - June 15, 2009
- StratforThe economic outlook for Russia appears bleak, and the road to recovery appears to be a long one. Rising unemployment, falling industrial production and the...
- A Revival of Sino-Indian Tensions - June 13, 2009
- By StratforTensions between China and India have intensified in recent days, with Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang on Thursday rejecting recent Indian claims...
- West Bank Settlements and Future of Israel - June 9, 2009
- By StratforAmid the rhetoric of U.S. President Barack Obama's speech June 4 in Cairo, there was one substantial indication of change, not in the U.S. relationship to the...
- Al Qaeda's Critical Message to Pakistan - June 5, 2009
- By StratforAl Jazeera on Wednesday broadcast an audio message from Osama bin Laden, in which he focused on the state of affairs in Pakistan. Although messages from bin...
- A Step Forward In Swat - June 2, 2009
- By StatforThe Pakistani army announced Sunday that troops had secured the key Taliban stronghold at Mingora, the district headquarters of Swat in the North-West Frontier...
- North Korean Test; Japanese Awakening - May 27, 2009
- By StratforAs South Korea and Japan join with U.N. Security Council members to debate a response to North Korea’s recent nuclear test, the limits of multilateral...
- A 'Dragon-Jaguar' Alliance? - May 22, 2009
- By StratforChinese President Hu Jintao and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva oversaw the signing of 13 strategic cooperation accords during a Brazilian...
- Sri Lanka's One Struggle Ends, Another Begins - May 19, 2009
- By StratforA 25-year civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam officially ended Sunday, after the Tigers' leadership declared...
- A Return For Muqtada Al-Sadr? - May 12, 2009
- Rumors are circulating throughout the Middle East that Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr may return to Iraq from his lengthy sojourn in Iran as early as this summer. The...
- Iran Reaches an Impasse - May 5, 2009
- By StratforA key figure from Iran's political establishment launched a scathing attack Sunday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a few days after announcing...
- A Syrian Comeback in Lebanon - May 1, 2009
- By StratforA U.N.-backed tribunal on Wednesday ordered the release of four Lebanese generals, who had been accused of involvement in the plot to assassinate former Prime...
- The Pandemic Possibility - April 28, 2009
- By StatforThe world is suddenly facing the possibility of an influenza pandemic following outbreaks of swine flu. Indeed, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
- Taliban Problem Turns Critical in Pakistan - April 22, 2009
- By StratforA spokesman for Pakistan’s military said Tuesday that the peace agreement between the government and Islamist militants in the Swat region has given the...
- Germany's Economic Slump - April 21, 2009
- By StratforGermany’s Bundesbank announced Monday that the recession in 2009 will likely “intensify further” than the 2.1 percent decline in gross domestic product...
- Mission Accomplished - In Chechnya - April 18, 2009
- By StratforThe Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee announced on Thursday that it has “canceled the decree imposing an anti-terror operation on the territory of...
- Glimmers of Greater Romania? - April 17, 2009
- By StratforMoldovan President Vladimir Voronin on Wednesday said that talk of issuing Romanian passports to Moldovan citizens was "the best and clearest proof" that...
- Why the U.S. Obsession with Cuba - April 15, 2009
- By George FriedmanThe Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), a group vehemently opposed to the Cuban government, came out in favor of easing the U.S. isolation of...