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DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES

Seizing Certainty: The Growing Japan-Australia Closeness

DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES

Diplomacy on the Brink in West Africa

Regional cooperation blocs are everywhere becoming less cohesive, but the disintegration of the West African pioneer, ECOWAS, has perhaps been the most significant.

US Navy concert for the people of Bougainville at Independence Park

SOVEREIGNTY

Bougainville: Independence at Last?

Birthing a nation-state at a time when the old rules are less secure than they were.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan at World Economic Forum 2009

DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES

A New Axis? Türkiye, Ukraine and Syria

In order to show that it favors the US strategy and to present itself as a factor of stability in the region, Türkiye is bringing Ukraine to Syria; that is, to a geographical area that Russia has traditionally used by maintaining bases in order to serve its interests in the Eastern Mediterranean.

STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY

Strategic Trends: We, the Imperialists!

We have abused the language and words of power. Our glib misuse of them hurts us and obscures the lessons of history at a time when we desperately need guidelines.

SECURITY, UNREST & WAR

World War III: The Soft Launch

Everything is connected, and it’s starting to become clear with the US strategic operations.

STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE

CURRENT ESTIMATE | Has Trump Chosen to Fall on the Hills of the Zagros?

Did the US have no concrete follow-on plan to restore Iran as a stable ally of the US in the region, as it had been during the US Nixon Administration (1969-74)?

DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES

EN CLAIR | The Return of Taiwan: How Beijing’s Collapsing Influence Opens the Door for Taipei

Taiwan could be poised to benefit from the declining fortunes of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to conceivably begin expanding once again the number of nations with which it has diplomatic relations.