"One Billion Asians Could Be Parched in 24 Years, Say Experts" sounds like the title of a science-fiction novel. Actually, it's the title of an Agence France Presse report on a meeting of world experts on water supply who met...

Civil unrest and recent deployments have eroded discipline; field units ignore rules of engagement and even open fire on other forces. An outbreak of violence across the country will make it impossible for the army to hold the nation of...

Indonesia is a far-flung nation of 17,000 islands. It began as a modern state in 1949, emerging from the Dutch colonial regime. It has a long history of violence. The English expression "to run amok" comes from an Indonesian term...

Americans, whether or not they actually pray, understand and warm to such a request.

Teenage girls are the best candidates for suicide bombers among the Tamil Tigers.

Is Taiwan significant in the broad picture of world events? Or is its future merely a local concern?

Russian-Chinese relations have blown hot and cold since the end of World War II.

Everyone seems to want stronger ties with India. The U.S., Japan and Germany all seek India's favor. Does this signal a change in Asian focus?

Free trade has been hyped as the solution to almost everything. But how will peace really come?

By a remarkable coincidence, controversial international trade agreements that are opening up China to America and the European Union come exactly 100 years after a previous disastrous opening.

While the recent World Trade Organization meetings were marred by protestors, the more significant meetings may have been those held the week before in the Philippines. Asian leaders gathered for a summit meeting that laid a foundation for the formation...

The first Thanksgiving Day I spent outside the United States was quite an experience.

American network television anchorman Dan Rather soberly reminded newspaper readers recently that "the world remains a tough, dangerous neighborhood" and that big trouble may be brewing for the West in China and Russia.

President Boris Yeltsin met his Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin, and the Russian leader renewed his call for the two nations to work together to build a "multi-polar world."

Stratfor's organizing theme for its 1999 Annual Forecast is found in the title: "A New and Dangerous World." That concept remains valid and the fundamental trends identified within that theme remain intact.

In the 1960s, Vozrozhdeniye was merely a tiny island in the vast Aral Sea.

India is fighting an ancient war in a desert village, not against an armed enemy, but against the scourge of polio.

A potentially more dangerous conflict than Kosovo continues to brew in South Asia.

A look at three key trends: globalization, religious ecumenism and global power shifts.

When all is said and done, it all goes back to money. The world has entered a new stage of homogenization never before seen.