About
In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Tag Archives: geopolitics
New Year Special: 2012 Predictions
It’s been a great year! To recap, in rough chronological order, 2011 saw: The most popular post (with 562 comments and counting; granted, most of them consisting of Indians and Pakistanis flaming each other); Visualizing the Kremlin Clans (joint project … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, china, climate change, demography, economy, fiscal crisis, futurism, geopolitics, germany, global warming, greece, hungary, iran, israel, middle east, military, peak oil, politics, putin, russia, ukraine, usa, vision, war, wikileaks
215 Comments
3000 AD: The Rise Of Polar Civilizations
The river of time flows on, and empires crumble, leaving behind only legend that becomes myth, while new polities arise to take their place. This process of decay and creation is going to receive a boost from “peak energy” and, … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic Visions, Science Fantasy, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, fantasy, futurism, geopolitics, vision
25 Comments
Top 10 Sinophobe Myths
EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.Ru (10 главных мифов китаефобии). Just as with Russia, the Western media (beholden as it is to its power elite sponsors and anti-Rest ideology) peddles many tropes about China that cloud … Continue reading
Posted in The Sino Triumphalist
Tagged authoritarianism, china, chinese, corruption, demography, economy, geopolitics, human rights, military, nuclear war, politics, sinophobes, usa
49 Comments
Future Superpowers – The World To 2100
Most current projections of future trends in national power fail to appreciate the importance of three crucial factors: (1) the declining EROEI of energy resources (including, but not limited to, “peak oil”); (2) the importance of human capital to economic … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, brazil, china, climate change, collapse, demography, economy, education, futurism, geopolitics, india, iq, resource depletion, russia, usa, vision
121 Comments
Interview with Mark Chapman (The Kremlin Stooge)
Next in our line of Watching the Russia Watchers interviews is Mark Chapman, the fiery Canadian sailor who’s been blazing a path of destruction through the fetid Russophobe ranks since July 2010. That was when he first set up The Kremlin Stooge, … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Watching the Russia Watchers
Tagged arctic, blogging, canada, chechnya, corruption, futurism, geopolitics, history, human rights, international relations, interview, khodorkovsky, liberasty, medvedev, oligarchs, politics, putin, russia, russians, russophobes, sochi, terrorism, usa, western hypocrisy, western media
15 Comments
Decade Forecast, Part 1 – The Downsizing Of Pax Americana
This is the first post in a series of three, in which I will analyze the major trends that will define the next ten years and their likely impacts on global regions. To put these forecasts into context, I must … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged china, economy, eu, futurism, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, military, peak oil, resource depletion, rise of the rest, usa, vision
14 Comments
Top 10 Most Powerful Countries In 2011
The Chinese have an interesting concept that quantifies Great Power status, called Comprehensive National Power (CNP). This index is produced by processing the economic, military and cultural factors that make countries powerful: GDP, technological development, number of tanks and ICBM’s, as … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged brazil, china, economy, education, energy, france, geopolitics, germany, global warming, globalization, hi-tech, india, international relations, japan, military, russia, turkey, uk, usa
624 Comments
New Year Special, Part 2: 2011 Predictions
Carrying on from yesterday’s 2010 in Review, I’ll now lay out my predictions for this year and see how well last year’s stacked up to reality. (1) Last year, I wrote: “World economy continues an anemic recovery, though there are … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, china, climate change, coal, demography, economy, fiscal crisis, geopolitics, germany, global warming, globalization, hi-tech, israel, italy, luzhkov, middle east, military, peak oil, politics, russia, spain, uk, ukraine, usa, vision, war, wikileaks
10 Comments
New Year Special, Part 1: 2010 in Review
Happy new year to all Sublime Oblivion readers! This blog wouldn’t be what it is without you. In fact, I’d have probably abandoned it after a month or two after a couple of posts as I did with my first … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic Visions, Coffee House, Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, authoritarianism, china, climate change, economy, france, geopolitics, germany, global warming, globalization, israel, middle east, military, politics, rise of the rest, russia, uk, usa, vision, wikileaks
27 Comments
Russia Arming The Rest, And US Views On This
Another Wikileaks cable – a secret one, not merely confidential – from our Caucasus ethnologist and bestest bud at the State Department, William Burns. Dated October 2007, it describes America’s perception of Russia’s global arms trade and emphasizes its concerns that … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, The Sublime Cables
Tagged arms trade, cable, corruption, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, iran, military, rise of the rest, russia, usa, venezuela, wikileaks
18 Comments