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Jul 2007, Vol. 27, No. 7
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Monthly briefings on current issues in international defence and security and the military sciences.
Issue: Jul 2007, Vol. 27, No. 7
French Security and Defence Policy under Sarkozy: Gazing into the Crystal Ball Whilst the dust has barely settled from Presidential and Parliamentary elections in which security and defence issues were very largely absent from the debate, interested parties both within and outside France are already trying to discern the directions in which the new President and his senior team will steer France on these issues.
Dr Robert Grant
Climate Change – The Gathering Momentum of the Security Debate There has been a veritable ‘tidal wave’ of political capital expended on the topic of climate change. Within this new focus of political and media attentions, the topic of climate change as a security issue has become an increasingly debated area by academics and politicians alike.
Dr Tobias Feakin
Transformational Diplomacy: The Conceptual Repackaging of US Foreign Policy Although American officials now speak of US foreign policy in terms of transformational diplomacy, in fact it is actually a conceptual repackaging of the same foreign policy goals.
Kate Clouston
Russia, China and the SCO: “Peace Mission 2007” While the SCO languished in relative obscurity after its conception and the gaze of the world was diverted by the events of September 11 2001, more recently the SCO’s activities have prompted increased scrutiny by the US and its regional allies in East and Central Asia.
Shinji Hyodo
Estranged Democracies to Engaged Partners: US-India Strategic Relations in the 21st Century The future of US-India relations can be characterised in terms of ‘engaged partners.’ While the estrangement thesis is certainly not dead, it no longer dominates the overarching strategic discourse between the two states.
Rudra Chaudhuri
Small Arms and its Implications for US Security Policy The United States has in recent weeks been strongly criticized by its southern neighbours for exacerbating violence in the region through a failure to impose more restrictive firearms legislation.
Mark Joyce