CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
AFRICA
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 08/2026
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
Global Trends: The Great Transition
The glacial drifts to and from autocracy
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Can the BRICS Syndicate Finally Gain Strategic Traction?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CALIR | Has Africa Abandoned Hope For Democracy?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
A New Eastern Mediterranean Strategic Matrix is Evolving
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Beijing “Talks”: On the Psychology of Strategic Incompetence
Regardless of the tactical milestones, is the outcome of the PRC-US conflict largely foretold?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Great Game: The Endless, Vital Game
Russia is emerging as a major victor in the Great Game. Classical geopolitics lives on.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRACTORIES | Taking Meaning — and Lessons — from Mutinies
Western analysts have been consistently keen to demonize Vladimir Putin, and predict his early departure. Wishful thinking is never good policy analysis. Assassinations and illness are always wild-cards and possibilities. But the Wagner episode was a mutiny in a teacup.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Aliyu Mohammed Gusau at 80: A Guarantor of Nigeria
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EN CLAIR | Has the West Already Lost the Red Sea-Suez SLOC?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Global Architecture: When Will There Be a New Global Order?
The “Rules-Based World Order” is in hospice care. Are we already in the inter-pax years?