GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Northern Tier: Iran Effectively Sidesteps Turkey
With a major new agreement to deliver energy to Europe via Iraq and Syria, Iran continues to transform the region, and fuels the impetus and rivalry for Turkey’s new “Ottoman Region” moves.
AFRICA
Egypt Reconsiders its Nile Strategy
Egypt’s Nile strategy underpins Red Sea Security and Horn of Africa stability, so the change has global, as well as regional, ramifications
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Salafist Terrorism Goes African
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | We Are All Strangers in a Strange Land
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Australia: Defense Under Pressure
An estimate of an area of key current significance
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 05/2011
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | New Geopolitics
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Machiavelli: Just in Time
Important New Strategic Literature
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
On Cue, IED and Insurgent Violence Follow Nigerian Elections
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Saif al-Adel, al-Qaida’s “Caretaker” Leader
MIGRATION
The New Geopolitics of Urban Societies
How mass migration has changed population patterns, and how this has transformed the concept of sovereignty, and skewed policymaking priorities, jeopardizing national viability and national security