CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The “West”, at a critical time in a transforming global environment, is failing at leadership levels to grasp how best to deal with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) because it is still captive to Beijing-propagated myths of PRC strengths.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
PERSONNEL
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Is the United Arab Emirates’ model of monarchical leadership a positive strategic option for the 21st Century?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Since everybody seems to be talking about diplomacy right now it is appropriate to recall a couple of important historical examples of good and bad negotiations.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
This may be the first occasion on which the US has actually initiated a global offensive. All its previous endeavors have been either evolutionary or reactive. The new Trump dynamic has put all states — friend and foe — into a defensive and recalculating mode.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
It has to be assumed, by recent and past actions, that Pres. Trump feels that most of the old alliances are no longer functioning in US or even global interests, and that he has no problem walking away from them. But then what?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA