DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 08/2025
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | How Much Does BRICS Really Impact the World?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
A New Europe? Wider Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War
The conflict has become a catalyst for major transformation in Europe and beyond.
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Trying to See at Midnight in Moscow
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Pacific Warfare: Crossing Distant Beaches
Can rapid restoration of USMC capability in the Pacific be an easy, early win for incoming US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Türkiye’s Proxy Domination of Syria Spearheads a Regional Transformation
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
The Dynamics of 2025
Has the “age of heroes” begun its return? Leaders replacing managers?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Syria: Türkiye’s New Plan and the Rôle of Russia
Russia, perceived as the big loser with the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad Government, sees a bigger goal: the potential to break up NATO as the US and Israel move to support the autonomy of the regional Kurdish populations.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria: Russia’s Mistakes and the Traps Awaiting Türkiye
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Commonwealth’s Surprising Power and BRICS’ Fragility
CHOGM showed that the sun had not set on the British Empire, but that the Empire — now the Commonwealth — has prospered, and that the Crown, as head of it, has moved well beyond the grasp of the Government of the United Kingdom.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR