Precious metals have always been a barometer of global unease. Wars, sanctions, currency crises, and confidence shocks have ...

Hoover Institution fellow Eyck Freymann explains what the Iran war and the blockade of the Straight of Hormuz reveals about modern economic chokepoints, geopolitics and war strategies.

On the sidelines of the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, Matthew P. Goodman, director of CFR’s RealEcon initiative, hosted Scott Morris, vice president of the ...

Allocators and asset managers alike now find themselves forced to pay close attention to geopolitics. What was once seen as tangential, episodic risk is now very clearly shaping the bones of the ...

Luc de Rancourt, co-director of EDHEC Business School’s new Chair in Geopolitics & Corporate Strategy, was part of geopolitics panel for World In Progress on June 24 in Chantilly, France. Courtesy ...

Geopolitics is the battle for space and power played out in a geographical setting. Just as there are military geopolitics, diplomatic geopolitics and economic geopolitics, there is also energy ...

Geopolitics is the linking of political power to geographic space. Perhaps Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Grand Chessboard remains one of its best abstract representations. It’s not only the USA that has ...

The war in Ukraine illustrates how geopolitics can profoundly impact psychology. In Ukraine, psychologists are studying the mental health effects of the invasion, from post-traumatic stress to ...

TOPSHOT - A picture taken on July 15, 2022 on a street of Kramatorsk shows a sticker with a barred portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the back window of a car, amid the Russian invasion ...

I first started to write a balance of payments focused blog back in 2004. I also sought, with only limited success, to figure out the vulnerabilities associated with that particular global system. The ...