China’s Parallel Technology System

Artificial intelligence, semiconductors, batteries, electric vehicles, telecommunications, platforms, drones and robotics: China is no longer seeking merely to manufacture the world’s technologies. It is attempting to master the system that produces them.

Donald J. Trump: America Redefined

Donald Trump represents more than a presidency: he embodies a lasting transformation of political language, institutions and America’s relationship with the world.

Israel: Power Under Pressure

Between domestic divisions and a shifting regional order, Israel’s power are coming under increasing pressure. An analysis of the strengths and vulnerabilities redefining its place in the Middle East.

Russia: Between Imperial Legacy, Strategic Power and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

Russia–Ukraine: The War That Reshaped Twenty-First Century Geopolitics

Eurasia: The Return of the World Continent

For much of the twentieth century, geography appeared to have lost much of its explanatory power. The expansion of international trade, the telecommunications revolution, commercial aviation, the Internet, and the financialization of the global economy fostered the belief that distance was gradually becoming irrelevant. Capital moved across borders in milliseconds, goods crossed oceans at ever-lower costs, and production chains stretched across multiple continents. Globalization seemed to herald a world in which physical borders would matter less and less.