DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Operationally, the AUKUS alliance is moving rapidly to create an integrated global power projection instrument. But it is very different at the political level, where politicians appear to be distracted by other agendas.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Why Uzbekistan’s new constitutional referendum was globally significant, and why Central Asia is the key to the emerging global strategic architecture.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Right now, defeating the US and the West may be far from Xi’s mind, even though he could not say it. Xi has more important concerns. The threat from the West is disappearing, anyway, because of its own decline. What will the post-China and post-Western world look like? And when will we see it?
PERSONNEL
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Nigeria’s political structure failed to account for a strong, minority third political party, and ultimately delivered a President-elect representing the policies which two-thirds of the voters opposed, and a President-elect winning only 10 percent of the registered voters.
PERSONNEL
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Global unrest causes people to review their fundamental security and governance structures. This is why, at a time of global change, the Liechtenstein model of constitutional monarchy becomes of interest.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The reality is that elections, even in small nation-states, can have global consequences.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The return to the Fijian leadership of Prime Minister Rabuka is a great blow to the interests of the People’s Republic of China in the South-West Pacific, but much needs to be done, quickly, to solidify his ability to retain power in the face of opponents prepared to take extreme measures.
PERSONNEL