DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Washington and Seoul: Is it Over?
Beijing, Moscow, Pyongyang, and Seoul now feel back in charge of the Korean Peninsula dynamic. Where does that leave Washington?
SOVEREIGNTY
The Inevitable Return of Sovereignty
History's cyclical patterns make the case that sovereignty must make its return as the dominant driver of the global strategic architecture of the 21st Century, whether we like it or not. And apparently most societies demand it, particularly when uncertainty strikes.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | US's Turkey Divorce Complicated by Qatar, Iran, Syria, Russia
The strategic path along which the US and Turkey are traveling has an element of fatalism about it, given that each side fears the divorce for a range of different reasons.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EARLY WARNING | The Dark Korean Shadow Play
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | US Faces Exclusion from the Korean, Silk Road Dynamic
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions - 08/2019
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
EN CLAIR | Turkey’s Crisis May Be Terminal
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Triumph of Belief: Red Sea Rising
The Red Sea is emerging as a key global strategic dynamic thanks to a revolution begun in Ethiopia. The transformation moves back to a 3,000-year-old pattern, and is far from done.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 07/2018
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
The Singapore Summit II: The View From Pyongyang
After the Singapore Summit, Pyongyang’s view is that the US and DPRK are again at an impasse, and that the Pompeo visit was a disaster.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
The Singapore Summit I: The View From Beijing
After the Singapore Summit, Beijing’s view is that it has not been moved off course.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS