PERSONNEL
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.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Current Estimate: Turkey’s Flawed Invasion of Syria
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.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Devouring the Kingdom
US-Saudi and Saudi-PRC relations are a factor in continued US dollar dominance. Beijing is poised to become a major rival to the US for influence in Saudi Arabia, and this could become the hub of the launch of the renminbi as a global currency.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Strategic Trajectories: The Emerging Indo-Pacific Quad Has Shadow Alliances Around It
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Korea Talks: a Transformed Eurasia
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | US National Defense Strategy: Back to Normal; Back to a New World
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Searching for Meaning in the US National Security Strategy
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA