The artificial intelligence revolution is underway, led by the U.S. and China. The battle ahead over talent, standards and technological dominance will ultimately amount to a contest over political ideology.
By Reva Goujon
Gone are the days when Western-oriented globalization was believed to be the only path to development. Instead, recent history has proved that the liberal world order is far from being everyone's destiny.
By Rodger Baker
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is hoping to avert the latest wave of proposed U.S. tariffs, which take aim at the EU and global auto sectors. But with each progressive battle, the Trump administration's trade war is less about trade partners and more about trade itself.
By Matthew Bey
Our critique and identification of the implications of decisions by U.S. President Donald Trump is not bias; it is simply geopolitical analysis.
By Rodger Baker
America's allies in Europe can expect more of the same from the U.S. president at the NATO summit before he leaves for a meeting with the Russian president in Helsinki.
By Reva Goujon
Mexico's voters have handed Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador a huge mandate to enact radical change on pressing issues such as corruption. Now it's up to the new president to decide how far to go in tackling graft.
The Chinese telecommunications giant has become one of the world's leading technology companies, but it faces suspicion, and restrictions, in the United States.
By Matthew Bey
Though inauguration day is three months away, the incoming administration is already shrinking its narco amnesty proposal, considering some drug legalization and promising to pull the military out of the cartel war.
With Russian support, the government has been able to keep a lid on simmering militancy, but poverty and a growing youth population could increase the threat from radicalization.
As tension rises with the United States, the Islamic republic is likely to boost its email, password, website and denial-of-service attacks.
By Ben West
In their battles with extremism, governments have plenty of reason to misrepresent the names of militant groups. Doing so, however, doesn't help us understand what makes these organizations tick.
Even though commercial models of unmanned aerial vehicles are more widely available than ever, arming them is difficult. Surveillance continues to be the drone's most effective role in a potential assault.
Despite spending millions on hiring scientists and creating modern labs, the chemical and biological attacks conducted by Aum Shinrikyo never created the apocalypse it wanted.
While numerous questions about the mass shooting are yet unanswered, the assault indicates how corporations must monitor threats over the long term and prepare workers for an active shooter.
The war between North and South never officially ended, but the battle to achieve economic prosperity weighs much heavier on the minds of many South Koreans.
There are abundant reminders in Ramallah, Tel Aviv and elsewhere of the different realities that constrain and pressure each side of the conflict.
The course of events after the Cold War ended may explain why few in Asia share the predominant European belief in the inevitability of a tightly knit global system.
By Rodger Baker
The view of Afghanistan from ground level is very different from 35,000 feet up, or from a world away in Washington, D.C.
By Diego Solis
Traveling through Andalusia reveals the complexity of the region's culture and history -- and the pride its people have in them.
Colombia is not an easy country to govern. Its mountains and jungles have historically harbored towns and villages that have wildly different political worldviews and that have been in constant conflict since the country's independence in 1810. Political identity -- left or right -- has long been a defining feature of Colombia's isolated towns, particularly those in Antioquia department. It is in this context that in 1977 embattled rancher Ramon Isaza gathered forces in the sleepy river town of Puerto Boyaca to fight the FARC forces terrorizing his community.
By Diego Solis
The future of the peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, like that of the country as a whole, is uncertain. But Colombia's recent progress gives hope of a brighter future.
By most conventional logic in the publishing trade, our approach shouldn't work. That it does is the reason for our shoutout here to the many independent thinkers and like-minded readers who are willing to swim with us against so many currents.
To write intelligently about the future, it's important to look back at our past performance.
As we grow and evolve as a company, the world of geopolitics is also changing before our eyes.
Nearly a month has passed since American voters gave the presidency, seemingly against all odds, to Donald Trump. And for nearly a month a global chorus of pundits, pollsters and media prophets have asked: How did just about everyone get it wrong? Amid the hand-wringing, the list of culprits is long: Skewed models of voter bases. The demise of landline telephones. Underestimates of "lapsed voters." The evolution of game-changing social media. Wishful thinking.
Stratfor is a unique company, and that very uniqueness that makes us difficult to pin down, open as we are to so many interpretations. So it's time to try to pull back the curtain on who we are, what we do and how we do it. Welcome to our new column, Stratforium.
Journalism tells you what you want to know. Stratfor tells you what you need to know. We co-exist in this ecosystem, but geopolitical intelligence is scarcely part of the journalistic flora and fauna.
