HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Gregory R. Copley, Editor Emeritus
Gregory Copley is the Editor Emeritus of Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, and was its founding editor in 1972. An Australian, he has also been President of The International Strategic Studies Association since 1982.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Fiction, or Gaming?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Strategic Architecture: Power in the Mega-Cities
Advocates of the new “city-states” are emerging to challenge the advocates of revived national sovereignty. But can such polities actually handle the complexities of power without exercising absolute control over vital sources of the materials of survival?
SOVEREIGNTY
Cratometamorphosis: Inclusion, Exclusion, Seclusion?
The mounting hysteria over secessionist and sovereignty movements — whether in Catalonia, Scotland, Kurdistan, Turkey, West Papua, or Oromia — should cause political leaders to reflect on the causes of national schisms rather than merely to attempt to suppress them.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EARLY WARNING | Beijing Dispenses with Niceties
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Governance Republic Versus Crown: Competition or Convergence?
A debate is emerging, for the first time in more than a century, over forms of governance. Is it a choice between “republic” and “monarchy”? Or something more? Are “crowned republics” an answer?
SOVEREIGNTY
EARLY WARNING | Sovereignty in the 21st Century
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Africa’s Significant Rôle in Beijing’s Global Strategy
Africa has assumed a central rôle in the strategy of the PRC, and promises to become — through China’s portion of the Silk Road — integral to Beijing’s future.
CRIME & CORRUPTION
The State of the USA: River of Doubt; Swamp of Despair
It may be that the Washington, DC campaign to isolate, capture, and subdue US Pres. Donald Trump has finally succeeded. If so, what does that mean for the global strategic environment? But does Donald Trump have options to regain control of the situation?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | The Impulse in the US Toward Civil War
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
ESSENTIAL READING | A Degree of Comfort
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Using Icons to Change Outcomes
Preventing conflict and dissension in Ethiopia may be more about prestige than power