STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
SOVEREIGNTY
The Ukraine Crisis: The Changing Black Sea Balance, and its Broader Impact
The inevitable return of Crimea to Russia, and the strategic consequences in the Black Sea region, the Caucasus and Northern Tier, for NATO, the Mediterranean, and, well, everywhere ...
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Boko Haram: A New Textbook Case in Handling Civil Unrest?
Is the northern Nigerian Boko Haram movement being defeated by the Nigerian Armed Forces, or are the Armed Forces being destroyed by Boko Haram? The answer may be neither, either, both, or something else again. But the issue is of profound importance to Nigeria, Africa, and the world.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Bangladesh in the Cycle of “Street Democracy”
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Taking It to the Street: Democracy as Mobocracy
SOVEREIGNTY
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | The Realization that “Europe” Does Not Just Mean the EU
Indicators of emerging patterns of global significance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Sudan, Facing Revolt, Prepares for War
Sudan’s economic crisis spurs Khartoum to search for a foreign threat.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Complex Soup: The “Eastern-Mediterranean, Central-Asian, East Asian, Euro-Atlantic and Others” Unified Dilemma
A butterfly flaps its wings at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in North Korea, and a political equation becomes a tidal wave in Tehran. It’s more complicated than that, but, yes, everything is related.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE