Stratfor - Turkey Marches Ahead With Its Military Plans in Qatar

June 19, 2017 The Brief

Doha and Ankara are building stronger security ties to counter Saudi Arabia and to try to broaden their influence in the Middle East.   Essential Reading Venezuela's Ruling Party Faces Rebellion From Within President Nicolas Maduro's administration is clinging to power as a dissenting faction threatens to hasten its demise.  Helium: An Inert Gas With A Volatile Market   Only a few countries worldwide extract the gas, leaving the market vulnerable to abrupt changes in the supply chain, often at the hands of politics. For Djibouti, It's All About Location  The country's relative stability and strategic position along the Suez Canal trade route make it attractive to foreign powers.   Watch and Listen Podcast: A Generational Challenge to Russian Influence In this episode, we take a look at the generational forces driving recent protests across Russia. To put those protest movements in context, we’ll look at the cultural, technological and especially demographic forces at play with Stratfor Senior Eurasia Analyst Eugene Chausovsky.

South Africa's Geographic Challenge South Africa's geographic challenge is to protect the extraction of natural resources in its interior while striving to maintain sufficient employment.

Stratfor Store Reports The Geopolitics of France This monograph explains how while France is nearly always engaged in Europe, it is only rarely ascendant.  Mapping Out the Trump Era  In this report, Stratfor cuts through the noise to show that geopolitics trumps politics.

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