Geopolitical events of the past decade  

Geopolitical events of the past decade

The TOP 10 geopolitical events 2000-2010 (By Stratfor )

7 comments | 26. March 2000 - 19. October 2010

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Geopolitical events of the past decade

10 events | 7 comments | 26. March 2000 - 19. October 2010

2000-03-26

Putin elected President of Russia

Under the communists, Russia had been poor but powerful. Under Boris Yeltsin it became even poorer and weak. Putin's election was the moment when Russia started to reverse the consequences of the fall of the Soviet Union, which Putin called the...

26. March 2000

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2001-09-11

Al Qaeda attacks U.S

The post-Cold War world was built around the end of history, the idea that economics had supplanted geopolitics. On Sept. 11, history spoke up once again as the radical Islamist group al Qaeda attacked the United States...

11. September 2001

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2001-12-11

China enters the WTO

China had been surging economically since it changed its economic policy under Deng Xiaoping. It continued this surge into the last decade. Many factors influenced the rise, but Dec. 11, 2001, is both a symbolic and practical event driving the...

11. December 2001

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2003-03-20

U.S Invades Iraq

The decision to invade Iraq defined American power through most of the rest of the decade. Almost all U.S. ground forces were committed to the war. The war split the United States from several major European powers, creating tensions that still...

20. March 2003

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2004-03-29

Nato Expansion

NATO expanded to include Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. In addition, on May 1, 2004 the European Union expanded to include Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia...

29. March 2004

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2004-04-04

Iran emerges as a regional power

On April 4, 2004, Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shiite leader in Iraq, started an uprising against the United States upon realizing that Washington was not going to agree to a Shiite-dominated government in Iraq and therefore was going to block Iranian intentions...

4. April 2004

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2008-08-07

Russo-Georgian War

In the first major foreign military operation by Russia since Afghanistan, the Russians delivered two messages. One was that they were able and willing to use military force. The second was that being aligned with the United States does not provide...

7. August 2008

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2008-09-15

Lehman brothers goes bankrupt

The global financial crisis was brewing for years, but Sept. 15, 2008, was the breaking point. After Lehman Brothers, any illusion that normal processes could manage the crisis went out the window...

15. September 2008

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2009-12-10

Obama announces a surge in Afghanistan

At a speech at West Point, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the United States would continue American involvement in at least one major war in the Islamic world while continuing to engage in a smaller one. Operationally, he switched the U.S...

10. December 2009

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2010-10-19

Merkel and Sarkozy propose new EU structure

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy met in Deauville, France, to discuss the future of the European Union. Merkel had proposed changes to the European Union in which nations that do not follow EU rules and that require...

19. October 2010

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