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Melida heights late bird3/25/2023 ![]() We suggest that ‘Paradise Lost’ would be too strong a trope for this trend, but that ‘Paradise Fraying’ might be more fitting.īig events go by unseen while we sweat the smaller stuff things happen underground while we watch the boulevard parades.” 1. ![]() Our data also show that the Netherlands' factual behavior has been slightly more negative towards the rest of the world in 2018 as compared to 2017 (but still in overall ‘positive’ (+0) territory). But a closer look at various underlying indicators reveals a more inconsistent picture. Overall, the world still had a slightly more positive attitude towards the Netherlands in 2018 than in 2017, both in words and in deeds. Our data for 2018 for the Netherlands paint a slightly more checkered picture than the strongly favorable one we reported on in previous years. At the same time, however, we also find robust evidence for deteriorating trends in the-far less well understood-geo-societal and geo-identitarian areas, especially from the point of view of Dutch and European preferences. One possibility is that the Trump administration may actually have (unintentionally?) stumbled into a new form of hegemonic deterrence. ![]() In the areas where most pundits suggest doom and gloom-geo-economics, geo-military and geo-politics-we actually find more positive trends than widely recognized, especially in the most recent time periods. Our findings go against the grain of today’s conventional wisdom. Abstract: This report presents a bird’s-eye view of geo-dynamic trends in the world on the basis of 37 evidence-based indicators that reflect geo-economic, geo-political, geo-societal, geo-judicial, and geo-identitarian developments over different time periods. ![]()
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