CRIME & CORRUPTION
Great Power Politics: The Skripal Case
Why Were Basic Questions Being Ignored and Distractions Employed?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Great Game: The DPRK-US Minuette
The impending Trump-Kim talks, as forecast a year ago, provided the first challenge of global consequence to the strategic rise of the PRC. Beijing has already begun to respond. There are more than two dancers in this minuette.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
The Battle of Washington
The US, a year after the election of a new President, remains deeply engaged in a war between an entrenched “establishment” and that disruptive new President. What is significant is that there are no “war correspondents”, so there is an uninformed electorate.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Korea Talks: a Transformed Eurasia
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Searching for Meaning in the US National Security Strategy
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | As Forecast: US Strategic Resurgence in the Indo-Pacific
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Is the Iranian Empire Finally Re-Emerging?
A revived Persian Empire is within Iran’s grasp. The mullahs’ Tehran, which had long resisted the call of traditional Persian geopolitical thinking, now seems to be embracing Persian geopolitics...
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 10/2017
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Russia’s Bid to End World War II With Japan, and the Strategic Consequences
SOVEREIGNTY
Cratometamorphosis: Inclusion, Exclusion, Seclusion?
The mounting hysteria over secessionist and sovereignty movements — whether in Catalonia, Scotland, Kurdistan, Turkey, West Papua, or Oromia — should cause political leaders to reflect on the causes of national schisms rather than merely to attempt to suppress them.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EARLY WARNING | Beijing Dispenses with Niceties
SOVEREIGNTY