SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Can the US-Canada Wreckage Be Set Aside, or Repaired?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 03/2025
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
ESSENTIAL READING | Next Man Up? Canada in Contention
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | The AU Summit: How Much Did it Matter?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The UAE: Traditional Leadership, Modern Success
Is the United Arab Emirates’ model of monarchical leadership a positive strategic option for the 21st Century?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Lessons in the Art of Diplomacy
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
Türkiye Sinks in the Syrian Mud
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Great Barrage: How the US Embarks on its New Global 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
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Trump’s Unsurprising Major Target: the Americas
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
EARLY WARNING | Addictive Lunacy: Symptom of Democracy’s Sclerosis
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS