Wikistrat report

I just logged in to Wikistrat and found that a new report is available and is ok for public distribution (much of the product generated there is not ok to distribute). Here's a fairly recent crowdsourced report on the idea of resource wars. It covers most of the bases fairly well and provides a few insights I haven't seen elsewhere. I like where we ended up on this, a fair, even-handed, thought provoker. It won't answer whether the techno-optimists will continue to win over the malthusians but it does help you argue your chosen side on that debate on a higher level.

Wikistrat Simulations - The Middle Class

Over at the consultancy Wikistrat, I'm a contributing analyst. It's an intellectually stimulating to be in the sausage grinding shop with hundreds of first rate minds putting out simulations on geopolitical trends and events and the business model offers flexibility and speed that traditional consultancies simply can't match. Currently there's an internal sim going on, "Global Middle Class Values 2033" which examines how this relatively new group of $10-$100 a day earners will be transforming the world. I wonder what would happen to the Democrat political coalition if the $36,500 was the US accepted high end of the middle class?