PERSONNEL
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Real Prospect Exists for Major Instability in Southern Africa
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Great Power Politics: The Skripal Case
Why Were Basic Questions Being Ignored and Distractions Employed?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Great Game: The DPRK-US Minuette
The impending Trump-Kim talks, as forecast a year ago, provided the first challenge of global consequence to the strategic rise of the PRC. Beijing has already begun to respond. There are more than two dancers in this minuette.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Ethiopia Achieves a Profound Change, But Complexities Abound
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 02/208
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Ethiopia’s Slide Into Ethnic Politics Shows the National Fragility
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | The Seeds of Defeat
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Last Chance for the ANC?
The removal of Pres. Jacob Zuma in South Africa was a pre-emptive coup by Cyril Ramaphosa to reverse the ANC’s fortunes. But will it work?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Battle of Washington
The US, a year after the election of a new President, remains deeply engaged in a war between an entrenched “establishment” and that disruptive new President. What is significant is that there are no “war correspondents”, so there is an uninformed electorate.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Devouring the Kingdom
US-Saudi and Saudi-PRC relations are a factor in continued US dollar dominance. Beijing is poised to become a major rival to the US for influence in Saudi Arabia, and this could become the hub of the launch of the renminbi as a global currency.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES