The World in 2017

> 2017 Global Forecast

> Geopolitical order set to be tested in 2017

2016: a year in review

> Ten Most Significant World Events in 2016

> 2016, the Year Europe Forgot World War II

25 years after the fall of the URSS

> The Soviet Union Is Gone, But It’s Still Collapsing

Arch of Crisis

> How to Build Middle East Peace: Why Bottom-Up Is Better Than Top-Down

> Is This the Right Time to Relieve the Building Pressure in the Baltics?

> In West Asia, a new order shaped by Russia emerges

> The Kashmir Uprising and India-Pakistan Relations: A need for conflict resolution, not management

Terrorism

> Lessons from the Fifteen-Year Counterterrorism Campaign

> Turkey Pays Dearly For Counterterror Purge

> The different faces of Taliban jihad in Pakistan

> Then And Now: Comparing The Flow Of Foreign Fighters To Aqi And The Islamic State

Nukes

> Relax: The Iran Nuclear Deal Is Doing Its Job

USA

> Original Sin: The Electoral College as a Pro-Slavery Tool

> Get Real About the Power of U.S. Adversaries

> George Kennan Is Still the Russia Expert America Needs

> How to Promote Democracy Without Demoting U.S. Interests

China

> Xi as "Core Leader", Re-emergence of Strongman Politics?

> China’s Military Reforms: An Optimistic and a Pessimistic Take

> Does China Really Want to Be the South China Sea's Policeman?

> China’s 'Arab Pivot' Signals the End of Non-Intervention

> China’s silk road ambitions in outer space

Russia

> Changing Putin’s Mind: How Trump Can Reshape Russian Foreign Policy

> Putin’s Japan Visit

> The Kremlin Trojan Horses: Russian Influence in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom

> Russia Enters a Time of Transition, by Stealth

> Heavy Metal Diplomacy: Russia's political use of its military in Europe since 2014

Europe

> The unfinished state. 25 years of independent Moldova

> The impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland: A first look

> Winter is coming – Chilly winds across northern Europe

> Ukraine to Europe: At the Very Least, Do No Harm

> More bones to pick with the EU?

North America

> Violence in Mexico Surges

Middle East

> In Uncharted Waters: Islamist Parties Beyond Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

> Is Britain Staging a Return to the Persian Gulf?

> The Crushing of Syria’s Civil Actors

> The Lines That Bind: 100 Years of Sykes-Picot

Latin America

> Brazil as a Security Actor in Africa: Reckoning and Challenges Ahead

> Latin America’s Wide-Open Electoral Season

Asia

> The Changing Geopolitics of East Asia

> Is Indonesia’s Vaunted Secularism Under Threat?

Africa

> Nigeria and Democratic Progress by Elections in Africa

> A single army for Africa?

> Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

> Ghana’s new president: Jobs, jobs, jobs

> L’islamisation à Madagascar

BRICS

> Why the West Struggles to Understand the BRICS

Borders

> The Border Security Paradox

Theory of International Relations

> Reconceptualising Structural Power: A New Concept Made Out of Sterling Parts

International Order

> The Once and Future Order: What Comes After Hegemony?

> The unmaking of world order

International Aid

> Aid effectiveness in fragile states

Military Strategy

> Culture, Context and Capability: American and Indian Counterinsurgency Approaches

History

> Nazi Germany and the Arab/Muslim World: Recent Historical Directions

Books & Reviews

> Morning in South Africa

> 'Shadow Wars' exposes underlying patterns behind Middle Eastern strife

> War, Demobilization and Memory: The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions

> The Gulen movement past and present

> The People’s Money: How China Is Building a Global Currency by Paola Subacchi

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