SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Lessons from the Fall of France
Important New Strategic Literature
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Global Strategic Architecture: A Very Different Global Pattern
Economic, social, political, and demographic changes are key drivers in what is a transforming global strategic architecture. This will necessitate a revision of existing power projection, trade, and intelligence priorities, structures, and doctrine to meet the emerging realities.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Maghreb: Can Libya Repel the Invaders and Survive?
Libyans went, on July 7, 2012, into their first national elections in decades, and foreign observers hailed the fact that democracy had returned to the Maghreb state.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Africa and the Middle East: The Emperor’s Ghost
The Red Sea and Africa’s north-east move deeper into an era of great change, with global ramifications as energy acquisition patterns also transform, impacting the relative geopolitical centrality of the region.
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Iran at Its Strategic Juncture
Iran, no less than the European Union or the United States, faces a series of problems which place it at a critical strategic junction. It now faces urgent challenges, the response to which will determine its viability — even its survival — over the coming decades.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EN CLAIR | Prince Bandar Takes Saudi Intelligence Leadership
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Death of Pres. Atta Mills Transforms Ghanaian Poll
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance — From Defense & Foreign Affairs Accra Correspondent
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | The Atlantic Vacuum; the Pacific “Full Sea”
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
RESOURCES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Greece’s New Centrality — and Dilemmas — in Energy
An estimate of an area of key current significance — From Our Balkans Bureau
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions - 06/2012
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
ESSENTIAL READING | Asia: The Japanese View
Important New Strategic Literature
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Kosovo Roma in the Black Night
Important New Strategic Literature