Election Report: South Africa
Analyzing the major players and potential economic impact of the 2014 general elections in South Africa.
What a Trump Presidency Means for the South China Sea
Comments from Trump’s nominee for secretary of state suggest a more confrontational stance in the South China Sea.
Revisiting Dictatorship in Indonesia: The “Good Old Days”?
Democracy, as the popular saying goes, is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
OPINION: Getting US Foreign Policy Right
Political sentiment in the United States seems to be turning against the interventions and nation-building projects that have characterized US foreign policy in recent years. The revulsion at the cost and size of government, including the cost of expensive wars in the Middle East, has been amply demonstrated during the debt ceiling drama of recent weeks.
Arctic Ownership Update
This report builds on the previously published Arctic ownership backgrounder. Its aim is to highlight new developments in the scramble for Arctic oil.
An Independent Catalonia Will Be a Good Neighbour
Delving into the David v. Goliath struggle faced by the Catalan independence movement.
Date Set for Brexit
Prime Minister Theresa May has set March 29 as the date when the UK will start a two-year period of formal negotiations on leaving the European Union.
Adapt (Properly) or Perish: Emerging Markets in the Decade Ahead
Emerging markets face a series of challenges and opportunities in the decade ahead. Will they thrive in uncertain times?
Europe: The New Byzantium or Declining Rome?
It is time for Brussels to live up to its very idea, and to show the same. Biology and geopolitics share one basic rule: comply or die.
Euphrates Shield Failing to Marginalize Syria’s Kurds
An ambitious new force expansion and U.S. and Russian deployments in Kurdish-held territory all suggest that Turkey’s Euphrates Shield is not marginalizing the YPG.