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In Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Middle East adn North Africa Analyst, Ryan Boh,l forecasts Turkey's major military and political plays in 2020.

Stratfor's Middle East and North Africa analyst, Ryan Bohl, explains why Israel's short term internal politics will affect global geopolitics in 2020.    

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, Middle East and North Africa analyst, Emily Hawthorne, discusses the business environment for international investors as well as the power play between the power elite and protestors.

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, Middle East and North Africa analyst, Emily Hawthorne, discusses the business environment for international investors as well as the power play between the power elite and protestors.

In this episode, Stratfor analysts Fred Burton and Matthew Bey discuss the worsening relationship between the U.S. and Iran and what to expect in 2020. 

In this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword Podcast, Fred Burton speaks to Brad Taylor, best-selling author of 13 novels. In his latest, a Pike Logan thriller, Hunter Killer, takes place in the area where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet. Logan encounters Russian assassins, corrupt politics and the fight is on to protect his team, and fertile oil fields at risk. In this wide-ranging conversatio...

The group built quickly, claiming space left behind by the Syrian civil war and the chaos in the wake of the long US war in Iraq. By mid-2014, the group known to many countries as "Daesh" had declared a caliphate. Within a year it had claimed larges swathes of land in Iraq and Syria, gained affiliates and inspired followers in more than a dozen other countries -- and begun a reign of terror for an...

In this episode of the Stratfor Pen and Sword podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to career CIA protector, Thomas Pecora. Pecora has written a memoir of his more than two decades with the Agency, entitled, "The Guardian: Life in the Crosshairs of the CIA's War on Terror." Pecora developed a protective force within the CIA to protect The United State's spies, in other words, it was his job to ensure t...

In this episode of the Stratfor Pen and Sword Podcast, Fred Burton speaks with filmmaker, writer and podcaster, Chris Carr. Carr says he was fascinated with espionage and spies from a young age. His film, The Dry Cleaner (2019) is about a British intelligence officer named George. Set amid current events, George tries to convince Lydia to gather information about a revolutionary group. Carr is now...

In this episode of the Stratfor podcast, a discussion of the relationship between Russia and China amid a global power competition that includes the United States.  Our guest is Artyom Lukin, an associate professor at the School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. Lukin has authored numerous chapters, papers and commentaries, in Russian and E...

Clint Emerson is crazy, by his own admission. But the ex-Navy SEAL believes he’s the right kind of crazy. Emerson focused his entire military career on being the best he can be and that meant, during 20 years working for special ops and the National Security Agency, he did what he had to do to keep America safe. Emerson memoir of those years, “The Right Kind of Crazy: My Life as a Navy SEAL, Cover...

In this episode of the Stratfor podcast, a conversation about Turkey. Domestic challenges from politics to the economy are pulling at the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Relations between the United States and Turkey spiraled to such a nadir after Ankara launched an offensive into northeastern Syria, that Congress called for sanctions. Meantime, Turkey's relationship with the European Unio...

In this episode of the Stratfor podcast, a conversation about military weapons, secret missions and a life lived in a company town, where every employee was a civil servant of the US government. Piper describes a happy childhood, in a home amid the striking vistas of California's mountains, the desert nearby, playing with her sister to round up rattlesnakes and practicing her skills as a sleuth. H...

In this episode of the Stratfor podcast, Fred Burton speaks to his old friend Jim Markel, the CEO of Redoxx. Redoxx is based in Billings, Montana and builds and sells unique bags for railroad workers, business and adventure travelers as well as everyday bags for families.  Markel started life on the drop zones of various military bases. He joined the Marines very young, and when he finished, after...

In this episode of the Stratfor podcast, a conversation about migration. Stratfor's Emily Hawthorne discusses the global and geopolitical phenomenon of human migration. She speaks with Dohra Ahmad, who pulled together The Penguin Book of Migration Literature. The collection of poems, short stories and other writings spanning more than a century and the entire globe tells the stories of migration i...

Drug cartels wreak havoc and terror across Mexico, and have done for years. In a recent article for Stratfor Worldview, VP of Tactical Analysis, Scott Stewart, discussed how, despite the cartels' vast differences from terrorist organizations, "the Mexican government and its U.S. ally have pursued the "war" on cartels using many of the same tools that we normally associate with the 'global war on t...

What does it take to spot a spy? Not the old trench-coat-wearing cloak-and-dagger caricature of a Cold War-era secret agent. But the modern spy - the insider, perhaps - who can take down a business or betray a government with a digital weapon. We hear a lot about how global corporations and modern governments are vulnerable to intrusion, even from their own employees. But what does a spy look like...

In this episode of the Stratfor podcast, a conversation about who pays for the coastal damage done by climate change. The 2019 hurricane season is likely to go down in history books as one of the most costly of the decade in loss of life, loss of infrastructure, loss of property and loss of coastal land. It may take longer than a decade for the Bahamas to recover from Hurricane Dorian. Houston is...

How likely is the United States to be laid low by a cyber attack? What can you do to protect your company from a devastating ransomware or hack? In this episode of the Stratfor "Pen and Sword" podcast with Fred Burton, Robert Knake, co-author of The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats. In the book, Knake and fellow author Richard A. Clarke a...

Mat Best was an Army Ranger. He’s an entrepreneur. He’s a passionate advocate for veterans. He’s a YouTube phenomenon. And he’s now a best selling author. Best’s memoir, “Thank you for My Service,” is a no-holds barred, highly irreverent and oftentimes inappropriate recounting of his experiences during 5 combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. Thank You for My Service is a compelling read and contin...

When Sean Parnell returned from fighting for the US in Afghanistan, he wanted to honor the efforts of his platoon. So he wrote a book. He called it Outlaw Platoon. That book was a runaway bestseller. The next book he wrote, Man of War, jumped from memoir to fiction, but his mission was the same: to honor his comrades. In his latest thriller, All Out War,  book, Eric Steele addresses two fundamenta...

Fans who have already binge watched Season Two of Nextflix's series, Mindhunter can still get their dose of solving true crime with a new book from the real life Mindhunter, former FBI criminal profiler, John Douglas. The new book, "The Killer Across the Table" digs into four cases from the Mindhunter's case files. Co-author, Mark Oleshaker says each crime in the new book is notably different from...

When James Grady wrote, "Six Days of the Condor" in 1973, he had no idea his work of spy fiction would see repetition in the real world. But from an international assassination to a complete government-run espionage department, that's what happened. More than 40 years after the book was first published. with a TV series and several sequels to boot behind him, Grady says, his hero is still human. "...

In this episode of the Stratfor podcast, we hear from Zahra Hankir, a journalist based in Beirut, Lebanon, about a collection of essays she has compiled. The essays are a unique - and unprecedented - look into the lives of 19 women journalists who report for western media from and about the Middle Eastern and Arab world. From breaking with traditional female roles to reporting on civil war and its...

In this podcast, Stratfor's South Asia Analyst, Faisel Pervaiz, speaks with Ambika Vishwanath about India's water challenges. From floods to drought to later monsoons, India has been struggling to provide adequate water supplies to its 1.3 Billion citizens. Factor in the tensions between India and Pakistan and water-sharing agreement between the rivals known as Indus Water Treaty, which dictates t...