DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CHOGM showed that the sun had not set on the British Empire, but that the Empire — now the Commonwealth — has prospered, and that the Crown, as head of it, has moved well beyond the grasp of the Government of the United Kingdom.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
PERSONNEL
HISTORY
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Calculating risk, opportunity, and context: how the failure of our policy tools contributes to the current collapse of the strategic balance. Changing times mean changing tools.
PERSONNEL
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Great plans to transform global supply chain dominance have largely been destroyed by economic and political collapse, from Beijing to most Western capitals.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson said that a week was a long time in politics. The remainder of 2024 is, then, an eternity. Is there anywhere a respite from seemingly irrational instability?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Governments act with a sense of righteous purpose to “restore order” and to arrest protestors, while vilifying the causes of public outrage. But the sense of unrest reflects the failures of government rather than the failure of the populations.