by Aseem Gupta | Nov 15, 2025 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Reading Time: 23 MinutesInside many electric vehicles is a motor that delivers remarkable acceleration with almost no noise. Buried within that motor may be a set of powerful permanent magnets containing rare-earth elements such as neodymium and praseodymium. These...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 28, 2025 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Reading Time: 22 MinutesWhen Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Western governments responded with one of the most extensive sanctions campaigns ever imposed on a major economy. Russian banks were cut off from important international financial networks,...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 16, 2024 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Reading Time: 33 MinutesThe Middle East is home to some of the world’s oldest civilizations, great religious traditions, historic trading centres, and enormous natural resources. Yet modern discussions of the region are frequently dominated by war. Israel and...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 23, 2024 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Reading Time: 20 MinutesOn June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. With 51.9% of votes cast in favour of leaving, the referendum delivered one of the most consequential political decisions in modern British history. Supporters celebrated a...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 30, 2016 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Reading Time: 19 MinutesThe North Korean economy was collapsing, but its ruling family still needed dollars. In the 1990s, fuel shortages brought factories to a standstill, the public food-distribution system broke down, and a famine killed hundreds of thousands of...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 3, 2016 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Reading Time: 15 MinutesRussia stretches from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, crossing eleven time zones and occupying an enormous portion of northern Eurasia. Its western borders touch European countries such as Finland, while its eastern...
