Contents
Events at a Glance
Perspectives
Strategic Policy Issues
• Reshaping Intelligence: America’s Reforms
• Intelligence Reform in the UK
• Towards a Wider High North? Strategic Issues in a Changing Arctic
The Americas
• The United States: An Extraordinary Election Campaign
• Canada’s Conservative Foreign Policy
• Latin America: Slower Movement to the Left
Europe
• France: Frustrated Hopes for Radical Change
• Germany: Constraints on Action Debated
• United Kingdom: Brown’s Travails
• Developments in European Defence
• The Balkans: Kosovo Breaks Away
• Turkey: Government Stumbles after Win
Russia / Eurasia
Middle East / Gulf
• Iraq: Violence Reduced
• Iran: Continuing Impasse
• Middle East: Fading Prospects for Peace
• Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States: Continuity Amidst Instability
Africa
• Challenges of Peace Enforcement
• Radicalisation in the Maghreb
• AFRICOM and US Regional Diplomacy
• Kenya’s Political Crisis
• Change in Southern Africa
Asia and Afghanistan
• India: Growth Slows
• Pakistan: Political Drama
• Afghanistan: Worsening Problems
• South Asia: Indian Growth, Regional Turbulence
• Afghanistan : Spreading Insurgency
• Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal: Conflict and Change
Asia-Pacific
• China’s Year – For Better or Worse?
• Japan’s Dampened Extroversion
• The Korean Peninsula: Nuclear Progress
• Southeast Asia: A Region in Flux
• Australia: Changing Doctrines
Prospectives
Index