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GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | India Seems on a Path to Vote for an End to its Malaise
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
ESSENTIAL READING | Pacific Overtures
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Taking It to the Street: Democracy as Mobocracy
ASIA
Can Abe Revive Japan?
Japan has the tools to transform its strategic position, from resource exploitation to nuclear weapons. To a significant degree, the matter is now very much in the hands of one man: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Australia’s Phony Political War and Difficult Future
An Estimate of an area of key current significance
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.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Emerging Trends: Practical Implications of De-Urbanization
“All cities are parasites, feeding off their agricultural hinterlands, but the cities that thrive best develop a relationship with their hinterland which over time becomes distinctly more symbiotic than parasitic.”1
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2012
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Logistics Strategy: Logistics on the New Battlefields of Global Politics and Conflict
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Myanmar Becomes the Opening Gambit in the New US-PRC Maneuver
Washington potentially gains in Myanmar some of the strategic reach it lost in the Indo-Pacific balance — vis-à-vis the PRC — with the alienation of Pakistan. But the game has a long way to play ...
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Myanmar Elections: A Key Step
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