Kadima-Hamas
Kadima's Win: Prospects for a Territorial DivorceBy Peter ZeihanPreliminary results from Israel's March 28elections indicate that a Kadima-Labor alliance captured 50 seats betweenthem in the Knesset,...
View ArticleGeorge Friedman of Stratfor on Mexican Immigration
Borderlands and ImmigrantsBy George FriedmanThe United States has returned to its recurring debate over immigration.This edition of the debate, focused intensely on the question of illegalimmigration...
View ArticleRealism v Idealism
Idealism, Realism and U.S. Foreign PolicyBy George FriedmanIran says it has enriched uranium. HosniMubarak is claiming that Shia in Sunni states are traitors to theircountries. The French are in...
View ArticleShia Split
The Shiite SchismsBy Kamran BokhariHighly anticipated public talks between theUnited States and Iran over the future of Iraq have been lagging behindschedule, while the rhetorical exchanges between...
View ArticleChinese Geopolitics
The Geopolitics of ChinaBy George FriedmanChinese President Hu Jintao visitedWashington last week for a meeting that diplomatically might be called"nonproductive" -- or, realistically, "disastrous."...
View ArticlePorter Goss
The Intelligence ProblemBy George FriedmanPorter Goss has been fired as director ofthe CIA and is to be replaced by Gen. Michael Hayden -- who is now deputy toDirector of National Intelligence John...
View ArticlePrivacy or Life
Civil Liberties and National SecurityBy George FriedmanUSA Today published a story last weekstating that U.S. telephone companies (Qwest excepted) had been handing overto the National Security Agency...
View ArticleA Stable Iraqi Government?
Break PointBy George FriedmanA government has been formed in Iraq. It isa defective government, in the sense that it does not yet have a defense orinterior minister. It is an ineffective government,...
View ArticleWhat Does America Think of China?
U.S. Perceptions of a Chinese ThreatBy George FriedmanThe U.S. Department of Defense released itsannual report on China's military last week. The Pentagon reported thatChina is moving forward rapidly...
View ArticleChina's Creeky Banks
An Inflection Point In China's Banking ProblemBy George FriedmanThe month of May witnessed an interestingphenomenon: a spate of reports on China's nonperforming-loan problem. Whatis most intriguing is...
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