SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Israel’s Sudan Air Strike: a Message and a Mission
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
A Confluence of Events in the Horn of Africa
The announcement of the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi — possibly a month after he actually died — starts to focus the growing confluence of events in the Horn of Africa; events which show a profound watershed in the strategic situation along one of the most significant trade…
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Changes in Latitudes; Changes in Attitudes
Changes in the Global Strategic Architecture and their Ramifications for Sea Lane Security, with Particular Emphasis on the South China Sea Issue.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Africa and the Middle East: The Emperor’s Ghost
The Red Sea and Africa’s north-east move deeper into an era of great change, with global ramifications as energy acquisition patterns also transform, impacting the relative geopolitical centrality of the region.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Policy in an Age of Global Realignment
A Three-Part Presentation on Grand Strategy, the Global Condition and Outlook, and a Context for 21st Century Strategic Policy.
Argentina
EARLY WARNING | The Crisis of Democracy Has Reached Act Two
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
East of Suez: Game Change
With Qadhafi and Mubarak now part of history, the Red Sea and Horn of Africa balance — where they had played key rôles — starts to take on a new shape. Now the debate on the future stability of the Red Sea-Suez SLOC and the Horn of Africa gains new impetus, as Eritrea’s Post-Isayas era dawns.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Libya, Africa, and the Mediterranean After Qadhafi
What are the prospects? A consolidation of Mediterranean-EU links? The possible transformation of the AU? A surge in terrorist activities? The prospect — or near certainty — of protracted competition between factions in the New Libya if the 1951 Constitution is forgotten?
AFRICA
Egypt Reconsiders its Nile Strategy
Egypt’s Nile strategy underpins Red Sea Security and Horn of Africa stability, so the change has global, as well as regional, ramifications
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Wider View of Ethiopia-Eritrea Unrest
An estimate of an area of key current significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Special Operations in Africa: New World, New SpecOps
A look at Western options in the African context: the strategic framework, and the shape of future conflict on the Continent ...
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA