STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
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
Global Strategy: The Time of Strategic Choice
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Beijing’s “New Thirty Years War”
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Why the Changes in eSwatini Should Be of Strategic Interest
Indicators of emerging patterns of global significance
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Rare, Vital Insights
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
CURRENT ESTIMATE | US Faces Exclusion from the Korean, Silk Road Dynamic
Afghanistan
The Triumph of Belief: Persian Cæsar?
Not just Iran’s Cæsar abroad, Major-General Qasem Soleimani is finally being recognized as Iran’s “Man on Horseback”.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The Triumph of Belief: Red Sea Rising
The Red Sea is emerging as a key global strategic dynamic thanks to a revolution begun in Ethiopia. The transformation moves back to a 3,000-year-old pattern, and is far from done.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA