GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Tortuous Politics in the Americas
The US White House and Cuba appear to cooperate against a common enemy: US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Australian Government Implodes
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Geostrategic Architecture: Suspended Belief
Even North Korea’s strategic brinkmanship has links to the Eastern Mediterranean/Northern Tier crises, but, with everyone so focused on their own geographic area of interest, nobody notices the big picture. It’s as though all beliefs have become suspended in bubbles of jargon.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Malaysia’s SSK Scandal May Yet Impact Elections
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Importance
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 02/2013
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Australia: A Putsch in Progress in Canberra?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Complex Soup: The “Eastern-Mediterranean, Central-Asian, East Asian, Euro-Atlantic and Others” Unified Dilemma
A butterfly flaps its wings at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in North Korea, and a political equation becomes a tidal wave in Tehran. It’s more complicated than that, but, yes, everything is related.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | North Caucasus Takes Shape as an Early Obama Target
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 01/2013
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
ESSENTIAL READING | Pivotal Persia
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Africa: Mali, Nigeria, and the Bigger Picture
The Mali War will be neither simple nor quick, ‘though the players all wish it so.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Mali: Center Stage
The international community finally began addressing the issue of Islamist fighters in Mali. This provided an opportunity for Nigeria, in particular, to rebuild its own security and political stability. But there was still no guarantee that the opportunity would be grasped.