GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Egypt’s Dilemma Likely to Hit Vital Trade SLOCs
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance — A Defense & Foreign Affairs Staff Report
Argentina
EARLY WARNING | The Crisis of Democracy Has Reached Act Two
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | The Lights are Looking East, all Over Europe
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Re-Thinking the Paths to Conflict: A US Observation
CRIME & CORRUPTION
South America: When States Pursue a Narcotic Agenda
President Evo Morales of Bolivia has emerged as a major narcotics trafficker for a variety of strategic reasons, mostly related to his retention of power.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Rare Insights
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
ESSENTIAL READING | A Brief History of Cratocide
Important New Strategic Literature
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Economic Strategy: Making the Numbers Work
The Strategic Impact of Population Growth on Pakistan’s Agricultural, Energy and Economic Trends
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria’s Multi-Layered Wars
Why Assad is gaining strength, and why the greater conflict is more complex than the Western media has grasped.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The PRC’s Space Strategy Signifies a New Competitiveness
An estimate of an area of key current significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Terrorism and Geopolitics: The Release of Abu-Musab al-Suri
How the release from a Syrian prison of perhaps the most important jihadist ideologues reflects a delicate interplay between Iran, Syria, and the Sunni jihadist forces from Qatar, Turkey, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE