Geopolitical Futures

(click to enlarge) At the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum held in Moscow late last month, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Africa is one of the primary vectors for the development of BRICS over the coming decades. The geopolitical heavyweights within the bloc – Russia, China and India – indeed have an interest in strengthening their presence o...

Europe at the table. Ukraine and Russia have agreed to include EU representatives in the next round of negotiations, U.S. envoy Jared Kushner announced. He explained that Washington expects to discuss a new European security architecture and issues concerning Ukraine’s security in parallel moving forward. Relatedly, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said NATO would need to [...

One of the most unexpected developments in the war in Ukraine is how robust Russia’s alliance network has proved to be. It functions less as a single geopolitical bloc and more as a network of unofficial commitments to fellow members. The most important of them are Iran and North Korea. In 2025, Russia and Iran […]

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Chaos in Italy. Hundreds of schools across Italy received bomb threats on Thursday, a day after some 6,300 schools received similar threats. The email messages were signed from a certain Mikhail Andropov. Some schools evacuated students and staff, but police found no explosives or credible danger. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with opposition leaders to […]

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From the beginning, our view of the war in Ukraine has been based on a straightforward assumption: that Russia needed a buffer zone between itself and Europe. Russia had been invaded by European powers twice – once by France in the 19th century and once by Germany in the 20th – and both excursions failed […]

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