STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Defense & Foreign Affairs staff
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Australia Doubles Down on US Strategic Relations
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 08/2015
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Ramifications of the Burkinabe Coup
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Australia’s Defence Choices at a Critical Juncture
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Buhari Begins Nigeria’s Crackdown
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Eritrea’s Fracturing Continues; How Will Isayas React?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2015
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Exit Before Entering?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | Peru and Colombia Embark on a New Strategic Bloc
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Nigeria: A New President, But Not Quite Yet a New Government
Nigeria’s Pres. Buhari, visited Washington, DC, on July 20, 2015, for talks with US Pres. Obama. It was something his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, was unable to do, relegated to a humiliating also-ran position at Obama’s 2014 Africa Summit.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Obama’s Africa Turn
After his successful achievement of an accord with Iran, US Pres. Barack Obama belatedly starts moves to regain African ground from the PRC. Is it too little, too late?