SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Turkey’s Putsch: The Broader Context Shows it as a Catalyst
Ankara has placed itself deliberately on an all-or-nothing path which envisages only Turkish strategic dominance, lightly disguised by attempts to diplomatically hold the international community at bay as it prepares its ground.
SOVEREIGNTY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Islands and Highlands of a Dynamic Red Sea
SOVEREIGNTY
A New Center to Study Monarchies, Traditional Governance, and Sovereignty
SOVEREIGNTY
EARLY WARNING | Brexit Lessons for Strategists
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Alliance-Building in the RedMed
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey have been at the forefront of attempts to build new realities on the ground in the Red Sea-Eastern Mediterranean areas. But there are many sub-sets and contradictions at play, including significant underlying rivalries.
SOVEREIGNTY
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Undercurrents Around Argentina’s New Oceanic Claims
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | ROC Leadership Change Highlights Beijing’s Priorities
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Controlling Crisis in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea
Does “peacekeeping”, as it is presently construed by the United Nations concept, really provide long-term resolution of the problems which caused the conflicts? What are our objectives? Have we even defined them?
SOVEREIGNTY
South-East Asia’s Dilemma
Has ASEAN and its allies left it too late to counter the PRC’s oceanic expansion?
SOVEREIGNTY
Break-up: The Medium-Term Prospect for Turkey, Saudi Arabia
The break-up of the United Kingdom as a result of Scottish separatism, or the break-up of Spain due to Catalan secessionism, or of Canada: all can be discussed. But a major challenge of the coming decade or so will be whether Turkey and Saudi Arabia can remain intact as states.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Russia, Syria, and the West: Finally at the Crossroads?
Russia has responded strenuously and unambiguously to the US, Turkish, Qatari, and Saudi provocations which began, and sustain, the war — and the Islamic Caliphate — in Syria.