GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
ESSENTIAL READING | Saving Nation
Important New Strategic Literature
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
EN CLAIR | PRC, Saudi, Others Move Against US
Reports on Issues of Current Strategic Importance
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Six Decades On: The US Thinks Again About the Republic of China
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
Pakistan in a Totally Transformed World
Pakistan’s strategic context transformed with the start of a new war in Afghanistan in 2001. It is now emerging into the “post-Afghan War”, Post-US Years, which will transform it yet again. But what will this entail?
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
The African Watershed in Global Affairs
Conflict emerges in Africa as the PRC battles to push resource exports toward the Indian Ocean
SOVEREIGNTY
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Will Turkey Survive to the Mid-21st Century?
Can the Turkish state survive until the mid-21st Century within its present boundaries, and with its present identity?
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
EARLY WARNING | Debt or Glory? Choosing Debt, Losing Glory
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
CURRENT ESTIMATE | New Australian Government Faces Security Issues
An Estimate of an area of key current significance. Report from Canberra
PERSONNEL
Key Transitions and Defense and Intelligence Appointments - 09/2013
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Syria: Behind the Media and Politics
Political and media representations of the conflict in Syria have tended to reinforce entrenched positions, making truth the primary casualty of war. Senior Editor Yossef Bodansky goes back to primary sources and historical knowledge to get to an unvarnished perspective.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Consequences of Initiating War Against Iran’s Vital Ally
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Syria Marked an Historical Watershed, Hidden by Verbiage
The strategic landscape changes irrevocably daily. The events of Sept 10, 2013, were of such magnitude that they could not be retracted, even though, in the weeks which followed, there were strong words and gestures — as though nothing had changed — which seemed to give a sense of continuity. But...