GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Africa’s Significant Rôle in Beijing’s Global Strategy
Africa has assumed a central rôle in the strategy of the PRC, and promises to become — through China’s portion of the Silk Road — integral to Beijing’s future.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Using Icons to Change Outcomes
Preventing conflict and dissension in Ethiopia may be more about prestige than power
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Strategic Symbolism in an Era of Resurgent Identity Politics
A look at the example of how Ethiopia’s search for cohesiveness and growth reaches, of necessity, into its historical identity
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 02/2017
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The RedMed: Somaliland’s Furor Reflects Wider Conflicts
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions - 01/2017
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
US Strategic Policy Options in a Post-Obama World
The incoming US Trump Administration has in many ways inherited a poisoned chalice, but, equally, there are many areas where decisive leadership is possible.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Nigeria’s Sudden Strategic Decline Compounded by US Concerns
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Alliance-Building in the RedMed
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey have been at the forefront of attempts to build new realities on the ground in the Red Sea-Eastern Mediterranean areas. But there are many sub-sets and contradictions at play, including significant underlying rivalries.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Does the US Have a Middle East Strategy Going Forward?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Controlling Crisis in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea
Does “peacekeeping”, as it is presently construed by the United Nations concept, really provide long-term resolution of the problems which caused the conflicts? What are our objectives? Have we even defined them?