STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Proud Suicide of Türkiye
Türkiye, after its Presidential election, enhanced its negotiating position in the Great Game over Central Asia, but in all other metrics entered possible terminal strategic decline.
Defense & Foreign Affairs staff
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | All Fall Down: Fear of Reality Opens Strategic Vulnerabilities
CCP leadership has prepared for the collapse starting to affect mainland China. It is prepared for a shattering of wealth and hope among its population, reckoning that the PRC will survive, but that Western economies will not be able to handle the social-economic collapses in their own countries.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Ambiguities of Australia’s Defence Strategic Review
A staff estimate on a topic of current importance
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 04/2023
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Demand for ISSA Expands to Fill “Neutrality Gap”
International Strategic Studies Association expertise is increasingly requested worldwide as governments’ concerns grow over compromised intelligence assessments.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Africa’s Powers Largely in Crisis as Volatility Increases
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Xi: With Unlimited Power Comes Unlimited Challenge
Right now, defeating the US and the West may be far from Xi’s mind, even though he could not say it. Xi has more important concerns. The threat from the West is disappearing, anyway, because of its own decline. What will the post-China and post-Western world look like? And when will we see it?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EN CLAIR | ISSA College of Fellows Expands Reach, Influence
The International Strategic Studies Association’s eclectic and global College of Fellows has taken on a new shape and renewed vitality in addressing challenges.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EN CLAIR | An African Church Schism Becomes a Global Trigger
Ethiopia’s next leader could create the grand coalition of the Red Sea.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Beijing’s Eurasia Strategy May Deliver Beijing its Coup de Main
Xi Jinping, facing a collapsing PRC domestic economy and food supply, could broker a Ukraine war peace which would bring Ukraine back into the Eurasian fold. After all, he has now completed a major consolidation of influence over Iran and Saudi Arabia, supported by Iraq and Oman.
AUKUS alliance