STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Africa’s Significant Rôle in Beijing’s Global Strategy
Africa has assumed a central rôle in the strategy of the PRC, and promises to become — through China’s portion of the Silk Road — integral to Beijing’s future.
CRIME & CORRUPTION
The State of the USA: River of Doubt; Swamp of Despair
It may be that the Washington, DC campaign to isolate, capture, and subdue US Pres. Donald Trump has finally succeeded. If so, what does that mean for the global strategic environment? But does Donald Trump have options to regain control of the situation?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Using Icons to Change Outcomes
Preventing conflict and dissension in Ethiopia may be more about prestige than power
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The PRC and the World: Rolling the Dice
How Xi Jinping is Gambling to Dominate the 19th Party Congress
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Venezuela and the Emerging Pre-Westphalian Societies
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | Broader Ramifications of the Arab States’ Rift with Qatar
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Strategic Symbolism in an Era of Resurgent Identity Politics
A look at the example of how Ethiopia’s search for cohesiveness and growth reaches, of necessity, into its historical identity
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Is Manama Next, or Is the Tide Turning?
Rising Extremism and the Ever-Present Iranian Influence in Bahrain
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Moving the Global Geopolitical Center of Gravity
Why is the global strategic architecture changing? What led to it? How is it changing? How can we plan for it? Who will be at the center of gravity of the next era? And where?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
EARLY WARNING | The Decisive War of Democracies
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Leadership Symbolism: Descendant of the Sage in China
Is the rôle of the Sacrificial Official to Confucius a potential future factor in greater China identity issues?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR