by Tom Sauer* | Apr 8, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
As any observer can notice, all great and regional powers are building up their weapons arsenals. Some are proud of it and like to show it both to the outside world and to their own people like Putin’s Russia or Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, and also Trump; others do it...
by Muqtedar Khan* | Apr 6, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
There is a revolution in progress that is shifting responsibility for governance and sovereignty away from the state to cities. This revolution even has a name: the fourth industrial revolution. In many parts of the world, cities are growing exponentially and...
by BEYOND THE HORIZON | Apr 2, 2019 | Commentary, Events & Activities, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The question is, if is there in fact a collapse or is there something more of a lapse, because that seems to be the assumption often in Brussels in terms of EU policy making but what we are living through our extraordinary times at some point that we will return to...
by BEYOND THE HORIZON | Mar 31, 2019 | Commentary, Events & Activities, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
We can probably take as a point of departure that the world is disordered. And, the question is that is the disorder in the 1930s capable of addressing the disorders of the present day? The answer is probably no. If we go back to the 1930s, it is very easy to say that...
by BEYOND THE HORIZON | Mar 28, 2019 | Commentary, Events & Activities, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The Western liberal order is in relative decline because of the economic crisis of 2008, the war against terrorism, the appearance of new threats (cyber, food security, climate, demography, proxy wars…) and new emerging states. There is clearly a leadership...
by Transatlantic Task Force | Mar 26, 2019 | Commentary, Events & Activities, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
A couple of decades ago, one of the favourite phrases of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was “it’s a funny world”. It is true that we live in a very funny world today. Couple of years ago, British academic, Tim Gartner Ashton said “If we could whip in a...
