RESOURCES
Ethiopia and the Nile: Water, Power, and a Changing World Order
Ethiopia’s struggle over the Nile shows how power, scarcity, and sovereignty are being renegotiated globally, and at growing cost.
SOVEREIGNTY
Bougainville: Independence at Last?
Birthing a nation-state at a time when the old rules are less secure than they were.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | The Return of Taiwan: How Beijing’s Collapsing Influence Opens the Door for Taipei
Taiwan could be poised to benefit from the declining fortunes of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to conceivably begin expanding once again the number of nations with which it has diplomatic relations.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Britain’s Assault on Democracy
The Labour Government, essentially impotent other than having a massive majority in the House of Commons, has legislated governance changes which are fundamentally anti-democratic and mark the further corrosion of the concept of sovereignty as a cornerstone of global strategic architecture.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Balkans in the Changing World
The Balkan states are gaining in strategic importance, particularly Serbia.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Another British Nationalist Party? But Will it Help the West?
Restore Britain’s leader, Rupert Lowe, has created another nationalist party in the UK. But does it help his own cause since he appears to have done it to avenge his expulsion from the Reform UK party?
SOVEREIGNTY
Sovereignty, Borders, If You Can Keep Them
One of the founders of the post-British United States of America, Benjamin Franklin, was asked what would be the nature of the new nation. He answered: “A republic; if you can keep it.”
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The “Century of Türkiye” Lasted Only Three Years
The Turkish President’s ambitious plans to recreate the footprint of the defunct Ottoman Empire are facing widespread rejection, and dependence on foreign goodwill.
SOVEREIGNTY
Africa, Dominated by Africa
SOVEREIGNTY
The Unfinished Battle
The European Union parliamentary elections, the 2024 US elections, Britain’s general election — and others — highlight the reality that “the reaction of 2016” has resumed.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Scramble for Antarctica
Barriers are coming down to unilateral power projection around the world as treaties and prestige decline for major powers. Now, Antarctica becomes truly an area of competition.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS