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Supply Chains Are the New Front Lines: What Business Leaders Get Wrong About Geopolitical Risk
Dr. George E. Bogden occupies a unique position in the world of international affairs: one foot in private sector trade consulting, the other in national security policy. As Executive Director of the Office of Trade Relations at U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the Trump administration, Bogden worked directly with private sector leaders. Time and again, he encountered the same fundamental misunderstanding: executives treating supply chain risk as primarily a logistic

George Bogden
Sep 144 min read


Why Is Russia at War with Ukraine? George Bogden's Historic Evidence Details a Bigger Picture
There is no short answer to the question, “Why is Russia at war with Ukraine?” The countries share a deeply enmeshed history, throughout which there has been consistent contention regarding boundaries and sovereignty. As of 2022, it could be said that conflict stems from Ukraine’s intention to strengthen alignment with Europe and the Western world by joining NATO, colliding with Russia’s motivation to reclaim what it believes to be lost territory and resources. But to truly

George Bogden
Sep 144 min read


The Budapest Memorandum: Why Ukraine's 1994 Nuclear Deal Still Matters Today
In December 1994, Ukraine surrendered all of its nuclear assets, a massive Soviet-inherited arsenal that would have been the world's third-largest arsenal, in exchange for security assurances from Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The agreement, known as the Budapest Memorandum, was hailed as a triumph of diplomacy and non-proliferation. Today, with Russian forces occupying Ukrainian territory and thousands dead in a war with no end in sight, Dr. George E. B

George Bogden
Sep 146 min read
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