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JB Shreve

JB Shreve
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JB Shreve is the author of "How the World Ends: Understanding the Growing Chaos." He has been the host of the End of History podcast since 2012. He has degrees in International Relations and Middle East Studies. His other books include the Intelligence Brief Series. Regular posts and updates from JB Shreve are available at www.theendofhistory.net
economic crisis 2022
US inflation is rising. In March, US inflation rose to 8.5%, compared to 2.6% one year earlier. We can expect that number to keep...
economic crisis 2022 economic crisis
This article on the 2022 Economic Crisis was broken into two parts because we all know the other guys can’t handle reading more than...
famine in east africa
The crises are accumulating in East Africa, with no end in sight. The famine in East Africa is the latest and deadliest pinnacle of...
worst food crisis
In my 2019 book How the World Ends: Understanding the Growing Chaos, I outlined three core crises found at the root of almost every...
none of it worked

None of It Worked

When the coronavirus pandemic first began to surge, I posited a thought on one of the podcast episodes in those early days. How could...
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
This book is in the lead for my best read of 2022 so far. For those interested in international relations, geopolitics, energy, and just...
Sri Lanka’s security forces confronted protesters over the weekend, raising alarms of more instability in the Asian island nation. The country is facing a...
This weekend President Biden “forcefully” called for regime change in Russia. Speaking of Vladimir Putin, the US President said, “For God’s sake, this man...
China-Taiwan Threat backgrounder
China flew a record-breaking number of military flights into Taiwanese airspace to open the month of October. The unprecedented 150 flights included bombers, anti-submarine...
dark history of the nobel prize
Last week the Nobel Prize Committee began announcing its 2021 recipients. The highly esteemed Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century Swedish...