The cradle of the Arab Spring is too civilized for military strongmen but too politically underdeveloped for democracy.

What starts a conflict is different from what causes it.

The Indian Ocean is the maritime organizing principle in which East Asia and the Middle East increasingly interact.

George H.W. Bush's caution and restraint allowed great things to happen peacefully in the world.

The region constitutes the world's most fascinating geopolitical experiment.

Geopolitics does not deny human agency but acknowledges constraints, loosely defined as fatalistic.

The European debt crisis is troubling not just in an economic and political sense but in a moral sense as well.

There will be little desire to take authentically risky initiatives during the president's next four years.

The question of the next Dalai Lama is geopolitical, not spiritual.

The coming of shale gas will magnify the importance of geography.