In 1994, Robert Kaplan, a journalist and author who had written a prescient book about the Balkans, Balkan Ghosts, wrote an influential article in the Atlantic Monthly called The Coming Anarchy in which he painted a grim portrait of the future of Africa and much of the world. In the article, Kaplan refers to the […]
After Crimea, What about Venezuela?
As expected, Russia has annexed Crimea and will have enormous influence on Ukraine’s interim Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk unless he wants to also lose the Eastern half of his country. At issue is that . Without allied support, U.S. President Barak Obama can not threaten military action because he will then look too much like […]
Crimea and Chinese Air Pollution
Last week two events happened in different parts of the world and I have been debating with myself, which one of them might be more important for anyone concerned with doing business on the earth: Crimea or China. In Eastern Europe, Russian troops have surreptitiously occupied the autonomous region of Crimea and the province’ is […]
Crimea & Ukraine
As I write, apparently Russian troops are, according to CNN, taking strategic positions in Simferopol, the capital of the autonomous region of Crimea, which has been formally part of Ukraine since 1954. Russian troops are also reportedly being deployed around the Russian bases which have been leased from Ukraine. The provisional Ukrainian government, which was […]
The Ukraine, Venezuela, and Thailand
While I was enjoying the Doing Good Doing Well conference on Friday and Saturday, the world appeared to be starting to change once again. Events in the Ukraine and Venezuela over the week-end have the potential to sharply re-draw the geo-political map in two critical parts of the world and are also deeply linked to the […]
