By Dr. Alexander Goerlach, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs The strife on the Turkish-Greek border is escalating, with refugees being targeted by tear gas on the Greek side. The intent is to stop the refugees from illegally crossing the border to Europe. Images of such scenes – with […]
Tag: geopolitics
Our Cuba policy is outdated and counterproductive
By Bill Hellman, USN/SEAL (Ret) America’s often changing policy on travel to Cuba makes very little sense when you consider our trade and travel rules with other countries who have obvious human rights and political issues contrary to American values and laws. Our current policy went into effect mid- year in 2019 […]
30 Years After the Fall
This originally appeared in Investors Business Daily on November 8, 2009, under the title “20 Years After the Fall.” By Dan McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor Twenty years ago, late on a Thursday evening in Berlin, the cement and concertina-wire symbol of the Cold War was breached, inadvertently opened by a botched answer of a […]
TES GeoPolicy Editor McGroarty on the Tech Metal Age
Address by Dan McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor Human history has been defined by our ability to obtain and use minerals, from the Stone Age, Copper Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age, to the Industrial Revolution (steel and coal) to the Jet Age (aluminum and […]
Resource Wars: Can the U.S. Lose a War it Hasn’t Fought?
By Daniel McGroarty TES GeoPolicy Editor “A fight between the United States and China is brewing over 5G and the question of who can be trusted to control the world’s wireless infrastructure. But scant attention is being paid to an issue of arguably greater importance to the future of the world’s economy and […]