“We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other Nations, far away.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Beyond our Border is a academic geopolitical blog committed to discussing the ways in which geopolitical developments directly affect the economics, national security, and civic life of the American people.
In the middle of Central Asia, boat hulls lie half buried miles from the shores they once sailed. Towns once known for their fishing or lake access are now kilometers from the nearest coastline. This is the current reality for many towns and communities across Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic within Uzbekistan. The Aral Sea was…
Only a couple hundred miles from the United States sits one of history’s most unstable countries. A country that was one of the first in the new world to gain independence. A country that struggled for over ten years to gain that independence, against one of the most powerful countries in Europe. A country that…
For decades the United States has been the center of global commerce, military power, and geopolitical influence. Imagine, however, that there is one action a country could take to immediately cripple that influence and power. Now further imagine that the United States is already losing on one of those three main fronts to that exact…
