GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS

The World Island: Eurasia’s Re-Emerging Heartland

Why Uzbekistan’s new constitutional referendum was globally significant, and why Central Asia is the key to the emerging global strategic architecture.

The re-birth of Central Asia as a power center: The tomb in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, of Amir Timur — Tamerlane (1336-1405) — and his immediate heirs still attracts those who admire his legendary power. However much the Uzbek people continue to identify with Timur, the realities of today’s Central Asian power framework means that nuance governs the balancing of regional relations with neighbors and the two flanking major powers, the PRC and Russia. Photo by Sultonbek Ikromov / Unsplash

Has the Canada-US Strategic Split Become Irreversible?

And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?

Has Türkiye Finally Been Forced Off the Fence? And for How Long?

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The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy

Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?

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Has the Canada-US Strategic Split Become Irreversible?

Has Türkiye Finally Been Forced Off the Fence? And for How Long?

ESSENTIAL READING | The US at 250

The Next Strategic Advantage: the Restoration of Literacy