CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Australia’s New Government: A Stable Commitment to Defense and Indo-Pacific Security
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Khamene‘i Decides: Iran Will Confront the US and its Allies
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Iran Prepares for All Eventualities…Including Negotiations
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a sudden, unscheduled visit to Baghdad on May 7, 2019, meeting Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi and President Barham Salih. But he is also reported to have met a very senior Iranian official...
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Dangerous Consequences of a Legacy of Technology and Wealth
Wealthy societies have always assumed that their wealth would guarantee them strategic victory. With wealth came the belief that its holder was imbued with superior wisdom, regardless of reality.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Australia’s Strategic Implosion Averted, But What’s Next?
Continuation of the Australian constitutional monarchy model was seen as a critical benchmark as to whether the country was moving toward a consolidation of its sovereignty orientation.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Options for Africa as Nigeria Moves into a “Post-Democratic” Phase
The hopes for democracy in Africa seem almost to have vanished overnight because of the disappearance of serious international scrutiny of the manipulation of electoral and governance processes, largely since “the West” abandoned the Continent to the People’s Republic of China.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Persian Phoenix?
Iran has rejected pressures from Moscow and Beijing not to surge to dominate the Middle East. Where does this leave all the other players?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
The Middle East Returns to Itself?
And how the Trump-Sisi summit marked a significant further decline in Washington’s influence in the region.
AFRICA
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Britain’s Conduct of Strategic Affairs is Paralyzed by Brexit
How can the Brexit Party turn its attention, once the European elections are complete, toward Westminister? If PM May delivered a compromised Brexit on October 31, 2019, there may be a collapse in support for both major parties, opening the way for a re-named Brexit Party in a multi-polar Parliament
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EARLY WARNING | Are We in Control of Where We’re Going?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR