STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
People's Republic of China
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Strategic Architecture: Power in the Mega-Cities
Advocates of the new “city-states” are emerging to challenge the advocates of revived national sovereignty. But can such polities actually handle the complexities of power without exercising absolute control over vital sources of the materials of survival?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Race: Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EARLY WARNING | Beijing Dispenses with Niceties
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Why Turkey’s Old Allies Delay Acknowledging Reality
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2017
SOVEREIGNTY
Kim’s New Posture
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Putin Moves to Seize Control of the North Korea Issue
SOVEREIGNTY
EARLY WARNING | Sovereignty in the 21st Century
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Turning Point: The New US Afghanistan “Strategy”
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | Iran, Turkey: Keep Allies Close; Keep Rivals Still Closer
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.