SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Soviet Union (USSR)
STRATEGIC PHILOSOPHY
EARLY WARNING | The Lord of the Flies Writ Large
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
Beijing’s “New Thirty Years War”
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Washington and Seoul: Is it Over?
Beijing, Moscow, Pyongyang, and Seoul now feel back in charge of the Korean Peninsula dynamic. Where does that leave Washington?
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | US's Turkey Divorce Complicated by Qatar, Iran, Syria, Russia
The strategic path along which the US and Turkey are traveling has an element of fatalism about it, given that each side fears the divorce for a range of different reasons.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Ethiopia Moves to Re-Establish Itself as a Red Sea Power
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
EN CLAIR | Indonesia Moves to a Bigger Stage, Despite Ongoing Domestic Issues
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
EN CLAIR | Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Malaysia: Russia Insures Against the PRC
SOVEREIGNTY
On the Matter of Constitutional and Institutional Choice
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Breaking Stalemates: Current Context
There is no doubt that Iran and North Korea have capable nuclear weapons systems and the means to deliver them. This has created in their leaderships a new-found confidence, which has been expressed in recent actions.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY