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• “New Great Game”? Says Who?

  I was just checking out the wikipedia article for the “Great Game“, a phrase coined ala-”World War II” to describe a series of political and military events and which all the namesakes to this blog were contributors. In the article, I saw this sub-section:

  New Great Game
  Main article: New Great Game

  With the end of the [...]

  Posted on 10 Nov 07 by Curzon   5 Comments »
  Tagged: geopolitics, oil, Turkestan, Wikipedia
  

• The classic Game of Global Domination

  Being a milcol guy in a pacifist country like Japan can get you into some interesting conversations. the other week one of my new coworkers asked me what I thought of Japan’s North Korea policy, and why the US wasn’t doing more about Pyongyang. In the end he was looking for an explanation why the [...]

  Posted on 30 Jun 07 by Younghusband   8 Comments »
  Tagged: Allies & Partners, China, geopolitics, Nippon, Orient, security, usa
  

• On Demographics, Part 3: Why the Gap will conquer the Core

  UPDATE: Dr. Barnett responds in an unfortunately typical vitrioled post (“analytically-narrow”... “drunken [sic?] the Kool-Aid”... “Dark Lord”, etc., etc.). If anyone sees a real response in there, please share the substance in the comments.

  ORIGINAL POST:
  Part 1 – Part 2

  Dr. Thomas Barnett has built his career on describing the world as divided between [...]

  Posted on 12 Jun 07 by Curzon   28 Comments »
  Tagged: Demographics, Future Threats, geopolitics, global-strategy, Population, Robert D. KAPLAN, Thomas-P.M.-Barnett