PERSONNEL
ASIA
Can Abe Revive Japan?
Japan has the tools to transform its strategic position, from resource exploitation to nuclear weapons. To a significant degree, the matter is now very much in the hands of one man: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Australia’s Phony Political War and Difficult Future
An Estimate of an area of key current significance
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Australia’s New Defence White Paper
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EN CLAIR | Jakarta’s Ongoing Defense Surge
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Importance
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EARLY WARNING | What Happens if US Isolationism Re-Emerges?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Emerging Trends: Practical Implications of De-Urbanization
“All cities are parasites, feeding off their agricultural hinterlands, but the cities that thrive best develop a relationship with their hinterland which over time becomes distinctly more symbiotic than parasitic.”1
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
EN CLAIR | Indonesia Continues its Defense Modernization
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Geopolitical Consequences of a Eurozone Collapse
An estimate of an area of key current significance
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2011
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Indonesia Comes into Strategic Focus
The Indonesian archipelago of 13,700 tropical islands has been described as a “garland of emeralds flung around the equator”. But it is a garland of emeralds strung around the neck of the world’s most important sea lanes, linking the Indian Ocean with the Western Pacific markets.
MIGRATION
The New Geopolitics of Urban Societies
How mass migration has changed population patterns, and how this has transformed the concept of sovereignty, and skewed policymaking priorities, jeopardizing national viability and national security