CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 10/2017
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
ESSENTIAL READING | Fiction, or Gaming?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Strategic Architecture: Power in the Mega-Cities
Advocates of the new “city-states” are emerging to challenge the advocates of revived national sovereignty. But can such polities actually handle the complexities of power without exercising absolute control over vital sources of the materials of survival?
SOVEREIGNTY
Cratometamorphosis: Inclusion, Exclusion, Seclusion?
The mounting hysteria over secessionist and sovereignty movements — whether in Catalonia, Scotland, Kurdistan, Turkey, West Papua, or Oromia — should cause political leaders to reflect on the causes of national schisms rather than merely to attempt to suppress them.
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
Governance Republic Versus Crown: Competition or Convergence?
A debate is emerging, for the first time in more than a century, over forms of governance. Is it a choice between “republic” and “monarchy”? Or something more? Are “crowned republics” an answer?
SOVEREIGNTY
The Indo-Pacific: The Question of West Papuan Independence
Indonesia is becoming increasingly concerned over the international momentum supporting the independence of West Papua.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
CURRENT ESTIMATE | The Korean Peninsula “Crisis” Inches to the End Game
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Strategic Symbolism in an Era of Resurgent Identity Politics
A look at the example of how Ethiopia’s search for cohesiveness and growth reaches, of necessity, into its historical identity
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Is Manama Next, or Is the Tide Turning?
Rising Extremism and the Ever-Present Iranian Influence in Bahrain
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Global Strategic Architecture: Indo-Pacific Overtures
How the Present, Multi-Dimension Imbroglio Plays Out. Global Power is at Stake.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES