STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Strategic Affairs: No Contest
The US-Iran-Israel Stand-Off: No Conflict in Sight; But for the US, No Success for Embargoes; No Ability to Constrain Nuclear Weapons. The Real War is Between Iran and Turkey.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The US-Iran-Israel Stand-Off: No Conflict in Sight; But for the US, No Success for Embargoes; No Ability to Constrain Nuclear Weapons. The Real War is Between Iran and Turkey.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
A significant and courageous speech stirs debate on present and future governance of one of the major energy powers
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
An estimate of an area of key current significance
PERSONNEL
RESOURCES
Polish shale gas transformation reflects a part of broader energy transition which has profound strategic implications
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Concerns continue to mount of a “contagion” of despair in global financial markets if Greece begins the process of debt default or renunciation. And while there will certainly be economic and social pain, there are paths through the crisis.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
An estimate of an area of key current significance
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Indonesian archipelago of 13,700 tropical islands has been described as a “garland of emeralds flung around the equator”. But it is a garland of emeralds strung around the neck of the world’s most important sea lanes, linking the Indian Ocean with the Western Pacific markets.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
What are the global trends? And where do some of the important regional trends fit?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
What are the prospects? A consolidation of Mediterranean-EU links? The possible transformation of the AU? A surge in terrorist activities? The prospect — or near certainty — of protracted competition between factions in the New Libya if the 1951 Constitution is forgotten?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
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