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    TAKEAWAY The greatest challenge of our time is for Humankind to find a way to overcome the destructive effects of the three global drivers: increasing population, rising levels of pollution and depleting resources. To find a solution, a new global dialogue is needed between the leaders of the main Powerblocks: China and the […]

TAKEAWAYS India is important! How it geopolitically aligns in the next few years will play a major role in shaping our future world India should be on everyone’s watchlist   It is wishful thinking of India being proactive, and therefore, it can only be a limited proactive power. There is a need to be flexible […]

 TAKE AWAYS Global inflation will become Commodity-driven Global inflation will remain high for at least the next 10 years. Coercive dependency will accelerate Fossil Commodity substitution   This month’s blog considers the sudden rise in global inflation, that the IMF predicts will be between 5.7 to 8.7% by the end of the year (World Economic […]

CONTEXT I was listening to interviews of delegates attending the IMF Conference in Washington last week (Quest means Business, 20.45 CNN, 22/4/22) when, Christine Legarde – the sober-minded, Head of the European Central Bank – appeared and boldly stated that ‘Globalisation was dead’. Of course, what Madame Legarde meant was that the current light touch […]

Context In 2003, I asked the diplomat Sir Jeremy Greenstock at a dinner in the House of Lords, what role free access to Middle East oil and gas had played in the decision to invade Iraq. At the time, the Segmented World Model was in its infancy but even then, the importance of the ‘three […]

Context The Segmented World Model is made up of four world narratives: ANXIOUS, EMERGENT, STAGNANT and DIVIDED. At the heart of each is a description as to how the world will respond to the newly emerging Imperium, the three global drivers: increasing population, rising levels of pollution and depleting resources. The 26 parameters that currently […]

Context The foreign policy of the SINO-Block is governed by five principals of peaceful co-existence, outlined by the former Premier Zhou Enlai, in 1953 Mutual respect sovereignty and territorial integrity Mutual non-aggression Non-interference in one another’s internal affairs Equality and mutual benefit Peaceful co-existence SINO-Block’s position until now has been to emphasise the need for […]

Context As the RUSSO-BLOCK steps up its military action in Ukraine, the alliance of countries opposed to the invasion – 73% of the UN Assembly (Resolution 68/262) – seek to avoid direct involvement through increasing economic sanctions. The main untapped target are oil and gas imports from Russia that provide a daily income to the […]

Context After the end of the Cold War between the RUSSO and AM-Blocks, global institutions took grip of the world’s financial system. Inflation and economic growth were moderated (see figure below; from Stock and Watson 2002) through cooperative actions of the main central banks and multilateral bodies such as the IMF and World Bank. Coupled […]