Everyone is Still Underestimating China

This about Geopolitics, tagged , , was written by for on August 18, 2010 .25 Comments

There’s been lots of fanfare over China’s GDP overtaking Japan’s in Q2 2010 (coming hard on the heels of a big ruckus over its DF-21 “carrier killing” ballistic missile and rising tensions with the US over North Korea and the South China Sea). The big debate is now whether China will overtake the US as […]

The Century without an Indian Summer

This about Futurism, tagged , , , , , was written by for on July 8, 2010 .36 Comments

How will the global South fare in our likely future of energy shortages, climate change and resource nationalism (and wars)? India has China’s population mass, but lacks its industrial dynamism and human capital. Africa has Russia’s energy and mineral wealth, but not the military power or social coherence to defend it. South America’s prospects appear brighter […]

China, The Last Superpower

This about Futurism, tagged , , , , , was written by for on February 7, 2010 .14 Comments

After two hundred years of global ascendancy, the West is in rapid relative decline to (re)emerging Asia, which is mounting a steady “Great Reconvergence”. Likewise, the legitimacy of today’s “neoliberal internationalist” order promoted by the West is being questioned by the more statist, neo-Westphalian visions of the leaders of the Rest, the so-called BRIC’s. This has already […]

Cliodynamics: Mathematizing History

This , about History, tagged , , , , , , , was written by for on December 4, 2009 .5 Comments

One of the most interesting emerging sciences today, in my opinion, is cliodynamics. Their practitioners attempt to come to with mathematical models of history to explain “big history” – things like the rise of empires, social discontent, civil wars, and state collapse. To the casual observer history may appear to be chaotic and fathomless, devoid […]

Myth of the Yellow Peril

This about Demographics, tagged , , , , was written by for on March 3, 2009 .11 Comments

Chinese in Russia number in the hundreds of thousands, so the Far East is not in danger of demographic domination by the Chinese.

A Long Wait at the Gate of Delusions

This about Futurism, tagged , , was written by for on August 3, 2008 .No Comments

Sometimes, it is much simpler to expound upon one’s views on a subject by replying to and arguing against an opposing view, rather than constructing one’s own thesis. Call it intellectual laziness, a clever short-cut or whatever you not, this is what I’m going to do with the Washington Post article A Long Wait at […]