PERSONNEL
PERSONNEL
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Turkish Pres. Reçep Tayyip Erdogan deliberately pushed the massive migratory flow into Europe to blackmail the EU into pre-election support for his party. It worked. Will he now, as he promised, stem the flow?
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
PERSONNEL
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Russia has responded strenuously and unambiguously to the US, Turkish, Qatari, and Saudi provocations which began, and sustain, the war — and the Islamic Caliphate — in Syria.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Some of the short-term fog of global transformation is beginning to clear, showing the PRC and the US as — predictably — the great powers, but each facing profound existential challenges.
SOVEREIGNTY
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Australia, long considered “the lucky country”, now faces the prospect that demand for its mineral exports will continue to decline, ending its strong period of economic growth while it sees little chance of rebuilding its historically innovative and competitive industrial base.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
PERSONNEL