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NATO’s Summit: A Disappointment to the Alliance’s New Member States NATO’s Riga summit finished with predictable compromise. But for the Central and East Europeans, the summit is now seen as a missed opportunity. None of their strategic challenges were fully addressed.
Jonathan Eyal

Back to Basics at NATO: Burden-Sharing and Alliance Raison d’être Whilst there is widespread agreement that the Alliance’s mission in Afghanistan must succeed or NATO’s future will be dealt a fatal blow, beyond this, the same old problems continue to haunt the Alliance. If allowed to fester, they may ultimately jeopardize the ISAF operation.
Tim Williams

Canada Rethinks Afghanistan Canadian domestic political support for the NATO operation in Afghanistan is beginning to waver. Why and how will this re-shape policy in Ottawa?
Kristian Kennedy

Silver Bullets and Telephone Calls: Intercept Evidence, Security and the Quest for Justice Criminal prosecution is central to the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy. But its commitment is strangely ambivalent. This is most readily exhibited in relation to the use of intercept communications, currently inadmissible in the criminal justice system.
Neil Ellis

NATO's Bucharest Summit: The Unanswered Questions This article assesses the recent NATO summitt in Bucharest and looks at the issues facing NATO in the future.
Jonathan Eyal

The Next Four Years? American Foreign Policy Under John McCain As the US presidential elections draw ever closer, Michael Williams assesses the foreign policy outlook of Republican nominee, Senator John McCain
Michael Williams

China's Energy Security: What is the Right Fuel Mix? What is good news for energy security may well be very bad news in terms of CO2 emissions and the environment.
Cornelia Meyer

China's Dangerous Energy Nexus Over energy security, the United States and China are starting to find themselves bound into a cycle of mutual distrust.

Burma Sells Gas to China Jobs for China and dollars for Burma’s generals, tentative gas sales, a pipeline plan and road building are bringing China and Burma closer together than ever.
David Fullbrook

The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty at the Crossroads The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is over a decade old. Now, reinvigorated US leadership is required to take it forward: without it, the treaty may be doomed.
Bharath Gopalaswamy and Andreas Persbo

Sino-American Relations and the New American President Despite all that has changed in the US after 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the most important bilateral relationship which the US needs to nurture is with China.
Lloyd Thrall

The East Asia Summit and Energy Security The Cebu Declaration aims to address key issues affecting East Asian energy security. An important step, but more remains to be done.
Pablo Bustelo

A Return to Geopolitics? NATO in Asia If NATO relations are pursued sloppily, what may result is not a better network for the Alliance to draw upon for risk-management operations, but a new superpower conflict between ideologically dissimilar factions.
Michael Williams

Bush, Mark II With President Bush now reconfirmed in the White House, Europe’s adjustment to the realities will have to be quick, but may yet be painful.
Jonathan Eyal

ITAR Waivers: Congress Unmoved by 'Special Relationship' As far as US defence technology exports are concerned, there is no 'Special Relationship' with the UK.
Mark Joyce

A Glimpse of Clarity in China’s Military Modernisation The annual Pentagon report is now an integral part of the ‘China threat’ debate and has evolved to become both the comprehensive lexicon of the Chinese military order of battle and a benchmark for the analysis of the PLA.
Alexander Neill

Australian Defence White Paper Australia, defence policy, strategy, strategic interests, white paper,
Damon Bristow

The Long and Winding Road to Sixty: NATO and Future Challenges When George W Bush arrived at the last NATO summit, most analysts expected the meeting to dodge the big question – what role should the Alliance play in the world? They were proved correct.
Michael Williams

Divided Unions: The Allies' Split over Iraq Troop Withdrawals The White House’s objectives in Iraq are increasingly divergent from those of its allies, domestically and internationally. As a hostile Congress attacks in Washington, the ‘coalition of the willing’ begins to dwindle.
Kate Clouston

The US–India Nuclear Deal America needs a strong India to broaden the world economy, guard a troubled corner, and counter China.
David Fullbrook

US China Policy: Trouble Hedging out East The United States will continue to implement a China policy that is run on the twin tracks of economic engagement and strategic containment.
Justin Hempson-Jones

Australia's Strategic Dilemmas The next Australian government will face some tough dilemmas in international policy, especially in defence and security.
Rory Medcalf

The Effect of Pandemic Flu on Business The economic penalties to national budgets and commercial enterprises, never mind the human losses, should override any reticence to plan and prepare for what is likely to be the most disruptive event in the past century.
Robert Hall

Assessing and Reporting UK Military Readiness Highlights of 'Assessing and Reporting UK Military Readiness' published by the National Audit Office on 15 June.
Nigel Vinson

Support for UK Veterans The recent ruling on Gurkha veterans brought the issue of support for UK veterans to the fore. This article highlights that veterans in Britain are not afforded the same support as those in the US and Australia. This article explores the reasons for this difference.
Richard Winstanley

The Maldives: Liberal Democracy or a Jihadist Entrepôt? The Maldives approaches a critical juncture in its development. Will it become a stable liberal democracy, or a security risk?
Paul Moorcroft

China's Weapons Ban The EU’s ban on weapons exports to China has become anachronistic in only one sense: Europe’s economic interests are no longer in accord with its operation.
Sheng-ren Liu

Pirates of the South Pacific Piracy clearly remains a serious problem today despite the general impression that it faded away along with the age of sail. South East Asia provides an ideal location for maritime piracy for a number of reasons.
Donald Dingwall

Beijing Worries About Energy: China Moves to Secure Supplies China’s remarkable economic growth during the past quarter-century has surpassed its ability to fuel its economy and has been forced for the past decade to import a steadily increasing percentage of its energy.
Bernard D. Cole

Countering Terrorism the Singaporean Way Singapore has often been seen as an efficient operator in South East Asia and, with the recent announcement of a number of new policies it appears to be taking this experience into the fight against terrorism.
Andrew Kennedy

The Royal Navy’s Unique Selling Points The question is what can maritime forces contribute to military operations that are most useful in the current operational climate?
Ellie Goldsworthy

Australian Defence Policy Australia, defence policy, southeast Asia, strategy
Damon Bristow