SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Re-Emerging Shape of France as a Global Power?
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 10/2018
SOVEREIGNTY
Governance: The King is Dead? Not by a Long Shot
The usurpation of monarchical governance has been widely promoted as an inexorable trend, but it is a trend now facing reversal in many areas of the world. This report looks at the rôle of monarchies in recent world history, and how, as an example, they play a rôle in securing the future.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Beijing’s “New Thirty Years War”
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EARLY WARNING | Settling in for the Long, Long War
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Iran Maneuvers to Face Internal, External Challenges
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2018
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Rare, Vital Insights
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Washington and Seoul: Is it Over?
Beijing, Moscow, Pyongyang, and Seoul now feel back in charge of the Korean Peninsula dynamic. Where does that leave Washington?
SOVEREIGNTY
The Inevitable Return of Sovereignty
History's cyclical patterns make the case that sovereignty must make its return as the dominant driver of the global strategic architecture of the 21st Century, whether we like it or not. And apparently most societies demand it, particularly when uncertainty strikes.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | US's Turkey Divorce Complicated by Qatar, Iran, Syria, Russia
The strategic path along which the US and Turkey are traveling has an element of fatalism about it, given that each side fears the divorce for a range of different reasons.