Strategic Survey 2020: The Annual Assessment of Geopolitics

We invite you to the launch of Strategic Survey 2020: The Annual Assessment of Geopolitics. to explore the geopolitics of an exceptionally eventful and turbulent year.

The worst pandemic in a century has tested governments, strained societies and frayed international ties. But there is much more to the past year than COVID-19. Concerns about climate change reached crisis pitch; US–Europe–China relations all grew more fractious; multilateralism wore thin and major arms control virtually collapsed; the US and the Taliban reached agreement to end America’s longest war; Britain left the EU, while the EU came together in crisis; Putin began to prepare for the 2024 presidential elections.

Strategic Survey 2020 analyses all these themes and many more of rising significance on every continent. It examines the deeper forces that drive them, and how these will shape the geopolitics of the coming year and beyond.