geopolitics – Warp and Woof

Amending “The World in 2124”

… Am I Still Optimistic? Last April, I wrote a Warp & Woof piece entitled: The World in 2124 … I’m Cautiously Optimistic. Much has happened in the world since then. Has the optimism of my “medium-term” prediction for the next 100 years diminished? The main events, from a historical perspective, that transpired in subsequentContinue reading “Amending “The World in 2124””

War in the Year 2024: Why Do They Fight, and How?

It’s true that warfare has persisted throughout human history. Evidence exists that tribes even fought in paleolithic times – like chimpanzees today. But, at least since Plato’s time, we humans have also believed in idealism. Peace is better than war, and continuous warfare is never thought to be the ideal human condition! Indeed, those whoContinue reading “War in the Year 2024: Why Do They Fight, and How?”

The World in 2124

Predicting the future — to a time after we are all dead — is not so hard, especially if you don’t have to support any of your projections!

Geopolitics – Now More Than Ever

Nations always compete with one another. But, their goals need not involve wars — welcome to the new world of trade competition, the new geopolitics!

The New Geopolitics: Class, Capital, Nationalism

Ever since the first nation-states, there has been geopolitics, today competition between “great powers” is complicated by the multinational aspects of capital, confronting new nationalism.

Of Walls and Drowning

Published February 28, 2019 in Warp & Woof Of Walls and Drowning Geopolitics of Climate Change in the 21st Century William Sundwick The term “geopolitics” was first used in the 19th century to refer to the influence of geography on political actions of nations. When U.S. Navy Captain Alfred T. Mahan published his seminal work,Continue reading “Of Walls and Drowning”

Link from The Hill

John McCain and I agree … see last post!

The Russian Bear and 21st Century Geopolitics

Published May 26, 2017 in Warp & Woof The Russian Bear and 21stCentury Geopolitics William Sundwick Many of us are old enough to remember a mid-century exposure to national security, and the “way the world worked,” reinforced not just by the competition with the Soviet Union (“The Communists”), but also by our understanding of WorldContinue reading “The Russian Bear and 21st Century Geopolitics”