Unpacking the Present
Step back to explore the history, geopolitics, and long-term forces that shape the present. We dig deep to find out why and how past decisions continue to shape today’s debates and tomorrow’s outcomes.
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The empty cradle
In 1960, the average woman on Earth had five children over her lifetime. Today she has about 2.3. In South Korea, that number has fallen to 0.72, less than one child per woman, the lowest fertility rate ever recorded for any nation in human...
The New Oil
In 1973, the Arab members of OPEC turned off the oil taps. Within weeks, gas lines stretched around city blocks in the United States. Factories in Europe went to four-day workweeks. Japan, which imported nearly all of its oil, watched its e...
The End of the American Aid Era
In 1947, Europe was starving. The continent that had once produced Beethoven, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution was rubble. Industrial output had collapsed. Agricultural production was in freefall. Millions of people were sur...
Narrow Passages Controlling Global Commerce
On a typical day, roughly 21 million barrels of oil pass through a waterway just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point. The Strait of Hormuz, a relatively small body of water separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula, handles approximately...
How China Became the World’s Factory
In 1980, China was still a poor, largely rural country on the edge of the global economy. Its industries were inefficient, its exports were minimal, and much of its population lived in conditions that had barely changed for generations. Few...
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Step back to explore the history, geopolitics, and long-term forces that shape the present. We dig deep to find out why—and how past decisions continue to shape today’s debates and tomorrow’s outcomes.
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