DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
INTERVIEW | Iranian Statesman Ardeshir Zahedi Looks to the Future
Ardeshir Zahedi talks with Gregory R. Copley, Editor
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.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Erdoğan’s Final Gamble to Avoid Strategic Relegation
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Juggernaut: US Politics at Work
A US presidential election of unprecedented opacity may lead to a Clinton presidency of continued strategic decline. Assuming she wins.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Turkey’s Putsch: The Broader Context Shows it as a Catalyst
Ankara has placed itself deliberately on an all-or-nothing path which envisages only Turkish strategic dominance, lightly disguised by attempts to diplomatically hold the international community at bay as it prepares its ground.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | After Almost Two Centuries, Containment of Russia is Over
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | Byzantium. Turkex. Chaos.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | Serbian PM Gambles on EU Entry
Reports on Issues of Current Strategic Importance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Turkey’s Gamble to Save Itself
Turkey considers direct military confrontation in Syria as Ankara stares strategic defeat in the face.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Syria, Russia Dossier II: The Putin-Netanyahu Duet
Israel and Russia continue their strategic cooperation, despite pressures from the Obama White House to force Israel back into rapprochement with Turkey to help preserve energy supplies to that country as it faces a Russian economic sanctions regime.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Russia and Turkey: Not War in the Offing, But Something Far More Important
It is now apparent that Russia can no longer ignore the reality that Turkey will remain the major impediment to Russia's control over its strategic ability to escape the containment of geography as well as geopolitics. The question is: what can it do about it, and when?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES