Chronopolitics: Long Wave Theory Comes Up Short

Three days after my last column ran, Steve Bannon was out of the White House. But cyclical theories of history remain, though they seem to be in a bit of a trough these days. A low ebb for cyclical theories may stem in part from an academic preference for narrow specialization over windy big think. But we at Stratfor cannot afford the comfortable security of specialization. The entire globe is our beat, and cyclical interpretations of history deserve our attention if only because "chronopolitics," as one of its theorists dubs it, may have important things to say about geopolitics....