SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Egypt’s Instability Triggers a New Proxy War Against Ethiopia and its Allies
A Report on an Issue of Strategic Importance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Road to Damascus is Paved with Ill-Intent
The Biblical conversion of Paul to Christianity “on the road to Damascus” implied a turning point for the onetime antagonist of Christ. But now the road to Damascus is an unmarked and uncertain path, full of treachery and hidden motives ...
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Geostrategic Architecture: Suspended Belief
Even North Korea’s strategic brinkmanship has links to the Eastern Mediterranean/Northern Tier crises, but, with everyone so focused on their own geographic area of interest, nobody notices the big picture. It’s as though all beliefs have become suspended in bubbles of jargon.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Hyderabad: 1948 War Continues to Provoke Conflict
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Myanmar and the US: Stumbling Toward a Critical Relationship
Chinese maritime strategy has been to ensure access to — even dominance of — the critical ASEAN and Indian Ocean sea lanes, vital to its interests, and vital to containing any potential rivalry with India. For India and the US, the reverse has been the case.
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 12/2012
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
DOCUMENT | Testimony by Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of African Affairs
Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs. Washington, DC, December 5, 2012.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Somaliland Leadership Hijacked as State Becomes Islamist
An estimate of an area of key current significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Nigerian Security Situation Deteriorates; the PRC Frets
An estimate of an area of key current significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The East China Sea Dispute: Movement at Last?
Exclusive Reports on Issues of Strategic Significance — From Defense & Foreign Affairs Editor Gregory Copley, in Taipei
SOVEREIGNTY
CURRENT ESTIMATE | A Noble Era Ends, Leaving Southern Africa Hanging
An estimate of an area of key current significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Changes in Latitudes; Changes in Attitudes
Changes in the Global Strategic Architecture and their Ramifications for Sea Lane Security, with Particular Emphasis on the South China Sea Issue.