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Each section of the scan focuses on signals related to a specific theme: world (international politics and geopolitics); economy; science; analysis, strategy and futures; AI, technology and weapons; energy and environment. However, in a complex world, … Continue reading The Red (Team) Analysis Weekly –
19 April 2018
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Each week our scan collects weak – and less weak – signals…
Each section of the scan below focuses on signals related to a specific theme: world (international politics and geopolitics); economy; science; analysis, strategy and futures; technology and weapons; energy and environment. However, in a complex world, categories are merely a convenient way to present information, … Continue reading The Red (Team) Analysis Weekly –
18 January 2018
Horizon Scanning Board
Signals: U.S. Sponsored Kurdish-led Border Army in Syria and Responses
Impacts and Consequences
The main critical uncertainty related to the American move is first the level of this commitment and then its consistency over time. As a result the survival of the Syrian autonomous region, the Kurdish-led Federation of Northern Syria has also become more uncertain. The outcome in terms of American regional and global influence is also uncertain. … Continue reading Signals: U.S. Sponsored Kurdish-led Border Army in Syria and Responses
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Signal: China – France Strengthening Relations
Impacts and Consequences
- Increased likelihood to see a return to a more influential and independent foreign policy of the European states holders of veto power at UN Security Council (France and UK);
- Increased likelihood to see a multipolar world settling in, however with also an
- Increased likelihood to see a global perception of a rising Chinese global influence;
… Continue reading Signal: China – France Strengthening Relations
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Signals: Jerusalem – The U.S. Defeated at the U.N., China Seeks Advantage?
Impacts and Consequences
- Increased likelihood to see a global perception of the global U.S. influence and power lowered;
- Increased likelihood to see a global perception of the regional (Middle East) U.S. influence and power lowered.
Should China step in successfully as peace broker between Israelis and Palestinians
- Increased likelihood to see global perception of a new Chinese regional (Middle East) influence
- Increased likelihood to see global perception of a rising Chinese global influence
- Increased likelihood to see rising tensions between the U.S.
… Continue reading Signals: Jerusalem – The U.S. Defeated at the U.N., China Seeks Advantage?
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Signal: Google Opens Google AI China Center and Chinese Reactions
Impacts and Consequences
Resulting from the Google AI China Center’s opening and then operations, we estimate rising likelihoods to see :
- Redrawing of the power map of the world along AI-power status lines
- Rising competition regarding AI between U.S. and Chinese mammoth Companies
- Human talents as stake in rising AI competition
- “Forced”
… Continue reading Signal: Google Opens Google AI China Center and Chinese Reactions
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Signal: Libya and Italy Increase Efforts to Combat Migrant Smuggling
Impacts and Consequences
If the planned center truly becomes operational and efficient, which cannot be estimated with confidence currently considering unknowns,
- Increased likelihood to mitigate spillover from the Libyan conflict
Facts and analysis
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… Continue reading Signal: Libya and Italy Increase Efforts to Combat Migrant Smuggling
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Signal: U.S. President Trump’s Statement on Jerusalem
On 6 December 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that the U.S. recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and, as a result will move its embassy there (see sources below), while also reasserting commitment to the peace process and specifying that the U.S. would support a two-state solution, if approved by both the Israelis and the Palestinians. … Continue reading Signal: U.S. President Trump’s Statement on Jerusalem
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Signal: Latest NATO 2017 Strategic Foresight Analysis Report
Nato has released its latest 2017 Strategic Foresight Analysis Report.
According to General Denis Mercier, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) interviewed by Reuters, the report will be used with a SACT “companion report that maps out what NATO should do to respond to these trends in the spring” … “to inform the 2019 NATO political guidance”. … Continue reading Signal: Latest NATO 2017 Strategic Foresight Analysis Report
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Signals: A Russian-backed Congress in Sochi for Future Peace in Syria?
Impacts and Consequences
If Russia succeeds in gathering major actors in a congress in Sochi, which we estimate as likely (55% to 70%)
- Increased likelihood to see, at the end of the process, a constructive peace settling in Syria
- Increased likelihood to see the birth of a Federal Syria
- Increased likelihood to see the survival of the Kurdish-led Federation of Northern Syria
- Increased likelihood to see a serious lowering of tensions in the Middle East and even some kind of stabilisation
- Increased Russian influence
(Nota: The symbolic board has been moved to the end of the analysis and before the sources/signals)
Facts and analysis
As stated by Russian President Putin, … Continue reading Signals: A Russian-backed Congress in Sochi for Future Peace in Syria?