RUSI Newsbrief

Monthly briefings on current issues in international defence and security and the military sciences.

Issue: Jun 2007, Vol. 27, No. 6

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Russia and the West - Back to Basics Relations between Russia and the West are set to cool even further as a result of Litvinenko affair. The defiance amounts to a Russian attempt to alter the post-Cold War settlement in Europe.
Jonathan Eyal

Iran's Nuclear Terrorism Are fears of a nuclear passage between Iran and international terrorism really justified?
Roger Howard

In the Line of Fire: Are Things Getting too Hot for Musharraf? Musharraf's decision to dismiss the Chief Justice in March was a calculated move.
Katharine Adeney

South Africa: Transit Point for International Jihadist? Over the past decade, South Africa has gained a steadily rising profile as a remote but consequential hub for transnational terror-related activity.
Kurt Shillinger

The People’s Liberation Army’s Mandate of Heaven Chinese leaders have been less than transparent as to the direction of the Communist Party’s armed wing, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Alexander Neill

An Eastern Thaw A warm diplomatic wind blew through Tokyo when the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made a State visit to the Japanese capital in April this year.
John Hemmings