Europeans must support Japan in its dispute with China
Geopolitical Notes 12/2025
Europeans must support Japan in its dispute with China -- my latest on Substack. ulrichspeck.substack.com/p/europeans-...
30.11.2025 16:38 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Why Trump fails to make peace in Ukraine
Geopolitical notes 11/2025
Why Trump fails to make peace in Ukraine -- my analysis. ulrichspeck.substack.com/p/why-trump-...
23.11.2025 09:49 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Geopolitical notes 6/2025
A weekly briefing on strategic competition -- from a European viewpoint
Ukraine diplomacy, the Russian threat, and China's rare earth challenge -- main topics in my latest Geopolitical Notes Briefing. ulrichspeck.substack.com/p/geopolitic...
19.10.2025 10:29 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Very good newsletter. Good list of arguments for why it's clear that time is not on Russia's side, that Russia is losing the war.
13.10.2025 06:26 โ ๐ 67 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Geopolitical notes 5/2025
A weekly briefing on strategic competition -- from a European viewpoint
Just published -- new edition of my "Geopolitical notes. A weekly briefing on strategic competition -- from a European viewpoint". Sign up for free.
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12.10.2025 09:12 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Geopolitical notes 5/2025
A weekly briefing on strategic competition -- from a European viewpoint
Just published -- new edition of my "Geopolitical notes. A weekly briefing on strategic competition -- from a European viewpoint". Sign up for free.
ulrichspeck.substack.com/p/geopolitic...
12.10.2025 09:12 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Geopolitical notes 4/2025
A weekly briefing on strategic competition
Just published: New edition of my Geopolitical notes. Subscribe for free. ulrichspeck.substack.com/p/geopolitic...
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Geopolitical notes 3/2025
A weekly briefing on strategic competition
Just published: Latest edition of my Geopolitical Notes. You can sign up for free. ulrichspeck.substack.com/p/geopolitic...
28.09.2025 09:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Geopolitical notes 3/2025
A weekly briefing on strategic competition
Just published: Latest edition of my Geopolitical Notes. You can sign up for free. ulrichspeck.substack.com/p/geopolitic...
28.09.2025 09:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
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Powerplay. Notes on geopolitics by Ulrich Speck | Substack
Notes on geopolitics. Click to read Powerplay. Notes on geopolitics by Ulrich Speck, a Substack publication.
My new publication: "Powerplay. Notes on geopolitics." I provide a weekly overview of what I consider important developments, interesting comments, and analysis. From now on every Sunday. Feel free to subscribe. ulrichspeck.substack.com
14.09.2025 18:25 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
Powerplay. Notes on geopolitics by Ulrich Speck | Substack
Notes on geopolitics. Click to read Powerplay. Notes on geopolitics by Ulrich Speck, a Substack publication.
My new publication: "Powerplay. Notes on geopolitics." I provide a weekly overview of what I consider important developments, interesting comments, and analysis. From now on every Sunday. Feel free to subscribe. ulrichspeck.substack.com
14.09.2025 18:25 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
I took the liberty of creating an alternative cover for the report, with my co-author as a hussar of the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth and yrs truly as an Estonian peasant from Halliste Parish in South Estonia, standing on the cliffs on the Gulf of Estonia/ (or Finland). @kaikaarelson.bsky.social
16.05.2025 14:15 โ ๐ 86 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1
โOvercapacity is a feature not a bug in the Chinese model of techno-industrial upgrade through relentless manufacturing scaling
โTo mitigate US tariffs, China needs Europe to absorb more Chinese goods while Europe wants China to export less and import more.. Their aims are diametrically opposedโ
16.05.2025 04:45 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Xiโs visit to Moscow this week is a usefully-timed reminder to European policymakers of the hard ceiling on China-Europe relations in the coming years. My @gmfus.bsky.social colleagues put a neat little video together laying it out... More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
09.05.2025 11:17 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Es kรถnnte sein, dass wir in Deutschland mit Merz endlich nicht mehr vorwiegend nur diskutieren, OB das Land international eine wichtige Rolle spielen soll, sondern WIE es dies tun kann: was in konkreten Bereichen zu tun ist. Das wรคre ein groรer Schritt nach vorne.
07.05.2025 05:30 โ ๐ 39 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0
Kiesinger, Brandt, Schmidt, Kohl, Schrรถder, Merkel, Scholz waren Ministerprรคsidenten oder Minister, bevor sie Bundeskanzler wurden. Parteisoldaten. Merz ist Quereinsteiger, Politik-Unternehmer. Eine Chance in einer Zeit der Disruption, in der es um Umbau und Neubegrรผndung geht.
06.05.2025 07:26 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
Dass er mit seinem alten, nicht mehr angemessenen auรenpolitischen Denken auf massive Kritik stieร, im Inland wie bei europรคischen Partnern, brachte ihn nicht zum Nachdenken, sondern zum selbstgerechten Insistieren auf seinem Kurs.
05.05.2025 07:20 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Scholz gehรถrte nicht zum Schrรถder-Lager in der SPD, aber er schaffte es nicht, das Schrรถder-Denken in Bezug auf Russland und die Auรenpolitik hinter sich zu lassen und eine neue, der neuen Lage angemessene Auรen- und Sicherheitspolitik einzuleiten.
05.05.2025 07:20 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Kanzler-Abschied: Scholz wird als der entscheidende Bremser bei der Ukraine-Unterstรผtzung in die Geschichte eingehen. Hรคtte er mehr getan, wรผrde die Ukraine heute besser dastehen. Russlands Imperialismus wรคre auf dem Rรผckzug, Trump wรผrde Europas Sicherheit weniger dominieren.
05.05.2025 07:20 โ ๐ 38 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. ๐Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War ๐ Yarotrof.com
Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
German Diplomat (1984-2024); Moscow, Washington, NATO. Former German Ambassador to Iraq and President of Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin. My new book: https://buchshop.bod.de/szenenwechsel-ekkehard-brose-9783819231506
Correspondent for geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific for NZZ / Non-resident research fellow at KIMS
Journalist, formerly of @bloomberg and @time
Food, football and foreign policyโฆ not necessarily in that order.
Deputy Head, Asia Division (@swp-asia), German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Japan politics and securiy, Indo-Pacific politics @swp-berlin.org ้้ซชใฎๆฆ
Research Professor at PME institution, Senior Nonresident Fellow at Atlantic Council, Associate Nonresident Fellow at NATO Defense College. Author of Coalition of the unWilling and unAble. Views are my own.
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New York Times reporter focusing on Russia/Ukraine.
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Writing about ๐บ๐ธ ๐ช๐บrelations, Ukraine's promise, economic statecraft + tech & foreign policy.
The go-to source for European foreign policy analysis. Part of @CarnegieEndowment.org, the Global Think Tank.
Reporter at Bloomberg. In Europe, mostly. I have strong opinions about food and football. DM for Signal.
VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies. Contributing editor, Survival. Fmr Ambassador to Belarus. Film-maker. Stalking survivor. Views mine.
Director Istituto Affari Internazionali, Adjunct Professor European University Institute, Honorary Professor, University of Tรผbingen. Views my own
Director of Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin. Senior Advisor at DGA Group.
Journalist, author, thinktanker, baker, swimmer, politician. Lifelong Kremlin-basher.
