SOVEREIGNTY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | A Noble Era Ends, Leaving Southern Africa Hanging
An estimate of an area of key current significance
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.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | The “East of Suez” Syndrome
Important New Strategic Literature
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Changes in Latitudes; Changes in Attitudes
Changes in the Global Strategic Architecture and their Ramifications for Sea Lane Security, with Particular Emphasis on the South China Sea Issue.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | To Own the Future, First We Must Name It
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Lessons from the Fall of France
Important New Strategic Literature
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Global Strategic Architecture: A Very Different Global Pattern
Economic, social, political, and demographic changes are key drivers in what is a transforming global strategic architecture. This will necessitate a revision of existing power projection, trade, and intelligence priorities, structures, and doctrine to meet the emerging realities.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Africa and the Middle East: The Emperor’s Ghost
The Red Sea and Africa’s north-east move deeper into an era of great change, with global ramifications as energy acquisition patterns also transform, impacting the relative geopolitical centrality of the region.
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Iran at Its Strategic Juncture
Iran, no less than the European Union or the United States, faces a series of problems which place it at a critical strategic junction. It now faces urgent challenges, the response to which will determine its viability — even its survival — over the coming decades.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | The Atlantic Vacuum; the Pacific “Full Sea”
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Kosovo Roma in the Black Night
Important New Strategic Literature
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Policy in an Age of Global Realignment
A Three-Part Presentation on Grand Strategy, the Global Condition and Outlook, and a Context for 21st Century Strategic Policy.
Argentina
EARLY WARNING | The Crisis of Democracy Has Reached Act Two
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”