GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Maghreb: Can Libya Repel the Invaders and Survive?
Libyans went, on July 7, 2012, into their first national elections in decades, and foreign observers hailed the fact that democracy had returned to the Maghreb state.
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.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EN CLAIR | Prince Bandar Takes Saudi Intelligence Leadership
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance
RESOURCES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Greece’s New Centrality — and Dilemmas — in Energy
An estimate of an area of key current significance — From Our Balkans Bureau
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Policy in an Age of Global Realignment
A Three-Part Presentation on Grand Strategy, the Global Condition and Outlook, and a Context for 21st Century Strategic Policy.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Egypt’s Dilemma Likely to Hit Vital Trade SLOCs
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance — A Defense & Foreign Affairs Staff Report
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
East of Suez: Game Change
With Qadhafi and Mubarak now part of history, the Red Sea and Horn of Africa balance — where they had played key rôles — starts to take on a new shape. Now the debate on the future stability of the Red Sea-Suez SLOC and the Horn of Africa gains new impetus, as Eritrea’s Post-Isayas era dawns.
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | The Lights are Looking East, all Over Europe
Gregory R. Copley, on the Fortieth Anniversary of “Defense & Foreign Affairs”
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
A Jihadist, Anti-Western Agenda is Being Forced on Syria
The international community has been blindly following a jihadist-driven agenda for Syria; a solution the majority of Syrians reject, but which Turkey and Qatar have been driving.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Israel and Iran: Still No War in Sight …
… But the Mosaic of Great Eurasian and Mediterranean Strategic Change Becomes More Clear
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Vital Strategic Debate: Who, in the West, Lost Africa?
An estimate of an area of key current significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria’s Multi-Layered Wars
Why Assad is gaining strength, and why the greater conflict is more complex than the Western media has grasped.