SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Sudan and South Sudan: More Than Just Rumors of War...
..as Sudan mobilizes to invade Abyei and South Sudan after a referendum of the Ngok Dinka people in the territory favors union with South Sudan
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Pakistan in a Totally Transformed World
Pakistan’s strategic context transformed with the start of a new war in Afghanistan in 2001. It is now emerging into the “post-Afghan War”, Post-US Years, which will transform it yet again. But what will this entail?
RESOURCES
Connecting Africa and Saving Egypt
A revived Congo-Nile canal project could transform Egyptian water needs, end potential conflict over the Ethiopian Dam, and provide an African North-South hook-up.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
The African Watershed in Global Affairs
Conflict emerges in Africa as the PRC battles to push resource exports toward the Indian Ocean
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
A Confluence of Events in the Horn of Africa
The announcement of the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi — possibly a month after he actually died — starts to focus the growing confluence of events in the Horn of Africa; events which show a profound watershed in the strategic situation along one of the most significant trade…
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Changes in Latitudes; Changes in Attitudes
Changes in the Global Strategic Architecture and their Ramifications for Sea Lane Security, with Particular Emphasis on the South China Sea Issue.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Africa and the Middle East: The Emperor’s Ghost
The Red Sea and Africa’s north-east move deeper into an era of great change, with global ramifications as energy acquisition patterns also transform, impacting the relative geopolitical centrality of the region.
AFRICA
Egypt Reconsiders its Nile Strategy
Egypt’s Nile strategy underpins Red Sea Security and Horn of Africa stability, so the change has global, as well as regional, ramifications
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Country Profile: Republic of South Sudan
SOVEREIGNTY
South Sudan Moves Toward Full Sovereignty: The Ramifications
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Africa: Ending the Rwanda Romance
US disenchantment emerges with Rwandan Pres. Paul Kagame as the regional situation moves to critical with the Southern Sudanese secession.