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Nov 2008, Vol. 28, No. 11
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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
China spaceMotives and Implications Behind China's ASAT Test China’s ASAT test, coupled with the revelation last year that a US satellite was ‘painted’ by a Chinese ground-based laser presents unsettling questions about China’s commitment to arms control, the ramifications of its rise as a major power, its military posture and foreign policy toward the United States and civil-military relations in China.
Kevin Pollpeter
EU flagEuropean Effects: The EU’s Multidisciplinary Approach to Security What value does the EU bring as a global actor and what must it do to enhance its role further?
Tim Williams
EU Strategy in the Balkans EU, Balkans, Macedonia, Albania, Yugoslavia
Chris Patten
Macedonia: Not Collapsing, but Rickety It Will Remain Macedonia, Balkans, Tetovo, NATO, EU, Turkey, Skopje
Dr Jonathan Eyal
Kosovo flagEurope and the Western Balkans: The Day after Kosovo's Independence Assessing the implications of Kosovar independence and forecasting its affect on the rest of the region.
Ognyan Minchev
Iraq and the Security Gravy Train Private security firms are pouring manpower into Iraq, financially profiting from the unstable aftermath of the war.
Ellie Goldsworthy
NATO: Staying the Course in the Balkans The Balkans has certainly not proved to be the quagmire that many analysts predicted when NATO first intervened militarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995.
Christopher Bennett
China spacePressure Point Warfare: China Swings the Assassin's Mace In the wake of China’s successful anti-satellite test in January 2007, observers are scrambling to interpret the signals. The unveiling of such weapons suggests a policy of ‘pressure-point warfare’.
Alexander Neill
Back to the Balkans Under a United Nations mandate set up in 1999, the international forces stationed on the ground in Kosovo have achieved a great deal. Yet, the list of unresolved problems is just as long.
Jonathan Eyal
Berlin Plus Uncertainty: The EU Mission in Macedonia December 2003 saw the completion of the first autonomous EU military operation in the Balkans region.
Stephen Blackwell
Fox-Hunting in FYROM Macedonia, NATO, Yugoslavia, KFOR, SFOR, TFF
Christoph Schwegmann
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
Special Needs – Special Forces Does the British Army get value for money out of its specialist training?
Amyas Godfrey
Russian CV Admiral KuznetsovThe Russian Navy: A Blue-water Revival? Towards the end of his eight year reign as president, Vladimir Putin seemed increasingly determined to restore Russia’s status as a major global power. But the revival of Russia's Navy may not be as extensive as first thought.
Richard Winstanley
China spaceThe 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
A Kosovo Peace Deal? West’s diplomatic agenda, which envisages disengagement from the territory by the end of next year looks increasingly unrealistic.
Jonathan Eyal
Project 921: China's Quest to Conquer Space The steppe grasslands of the People's Republic of China's Inner Mongolian autonomous region have borne witness to some momentous events in China's space programme over the last two years.
Alexander Neill
The Macedonian Operation Macedonia, NATO, Albania, Kosovo, Balkans
Dr Jonathan Eyal
Anticipating Istanbul NATO’s seventeenth Summit – the seventh since the end of the Cold War – takes place on 28 and 29 of this month in Istanbul.
Christopher Bennett