At Stratfor, we pride ourselves on our constant vigilance to avoid partisanship in our analysis. We may not always be entirely successful, but we have, from the founding of the company, established, maintained and refined systems and procedures to help recognize both conscious and unconscious bias in ourselves and to counter that bias in our analysis. At times, perhaps, the drive for nonpartisanship may compromise our willingness to address certain issues, particularly those related to the personalities of leaders. But while our job is not to judge the actors, nor assert that we know better how they should do their jobs, it is our job to understand, explain and forecast the future direction of the world....
