Posts Tagged ‘implications’
Tue Mar 9, 2010 17:33 UTC |
Anyone following the US ‘War on Terror’ will probably be aware that America is increasingly using drones – unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – to carry out airstrikes. They may also be aware that remote-controlled robots are being used for the purposes of bomb disposal in places such as Iraq. The growing use of unmanned platforms [Read more...]
Tags: bomb disposal, implications, Karel Capek, P.W.Singer, rebellion, rise of the machines, robots, UAVs, UCAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles, Wired For War
Posted in: Book Review, General, Geopolitics, Political Risk, US
Mon Nov 9, 2009 17:46 UTC |
The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of Communism in Europe was probably inevitable, given the inability of the Communist system to compete economically with the West. We now hear that communism was ‘unsustainable’ and I largely agree, but at the same time I don’t think it was inevitable that the Berlin Wall [Read more...]
Tags: 20th Anniversary, cold war, consequences, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany, Gorbachev, historical context, implications, Pope John Paul II, ramifications, Reagan, Soviet Union, USSR
Posted in: Emerging Europe, General, Geopolitics, Political Risk
Fri Oct 9, 2009 18:01 UTC |
US President Barack Obama is certainly a surprise choice for winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, not least because he has been in office for only ten months. Without wanting to be drawn into any US partisan debates, I think it is fair to say that during this period, it is questionable if he has [Read more...]
Tags: Barack Obama, foreign policy achievements, implications, Nobel Peace Prize, US
Posted in: General, Geopolitics, Political Risk, US
Mon May 25, 2009 21:13 UTC |
The North Korean nuclear crisis has been going on for so long now, and has become so repetitive, that like various US high-suspense TV dramas such as ‘24’ and ‘Lost’, it is losing its ability to shock. The cast of characters changes slightly, but the themes and events are fairly constant. (The only real shock [Read more...]
Tags: Add new tag, implications, Japan, North Korea, nuclear test, scenarios, South Korea
Posted in: Asia, China, General, Geopolitics, Political Risk
Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:58 UTC |
Asia’s economies are set to slow sharply in 2009, and this could lead to serious job losses, with potential political and social consequences. Although unemployment in Asia is lower than in most developed states, this comparison is not so relevant, since Asia has become accustomed to its own lower benchmarks.
Here are my thoughts on [Read more...]
Tags: Asia, implications, job losses, risks, social, unemployment
Posted in: Asia, General, Political Risk