On January 26, Vice President Joe Biden headed the first Caribbean Energy Security Summit, a conference attended by representatives from European, Latin American and Caribbean states, as well as a significant collection of non-state financial actors including the World Bank. ...

Despite sanctions imposed by the West and the falling value of the ruble, President Vladimir Putin had every reason to celebrate the beginning of the new year since the treaty of the long-awaited Eurasian Economic Union (also known as the ...

Allegations currently mount against Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s administration following the suspected murder of Natalio Alberto Nisman, the federal prosecutor leading the investigation of the 1994 AMIA bombing. Resulting in 85 deaths and nearly 300 injuries, the car ...

This piece is the fourth and final part of Glimpse’s “Contemporary Geopolitics Series” “Nation-building” is an often-abused phrase that can be construed to mean a variety of things. Typically, it refers to the development of strong institutions to stabilize a developing ...

This piece is the third part of Glimpse’s “Contemporary Geopolitics Series” The Pacific Rim In Alfred Thayer Mahan’s seminal work, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, he argued that sea power was the key to national might. Sea ...

This piece is the second part of Glimpse’s “Contemporary Geopolitics Series” The last century has seen the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) and the countries that form it repeatedly fall into disarray and instability. Authoritarian regimes led by dictators ...

This piece is the first part of Glimpse’s “Contemporary Geopolitics Series” “Who rules Central and Eastern Europe commands the Heartland. Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island. Who rules the World-Island commands the World.” – Sir Halford Mackinder, Democratic Ideals and ...

The US has maintained complete dominance over the North American continent at least since the end of the 19th century and arguably since the year 1865. No foreign power has been able to establish a sustained foothold in North America ...

There is a narrow but growing sector at the nexus between clean energy and international development—one that may be leveraged to simultaneously address both climate change and wealth inequality. Developing states are increasingly taking advantage of this synergy to galvanize ...

President Obama’s announcement to normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba elicited a plethora of political commentary, particularly from the right and prospective presidential candidates. Though many lauded the president for his leadership in addressing a policy that has, for over 50 ...