Backgrounders
Backgrounder
The status of Taiwan stands out among global disputes as one that could realistically trigger a war between major powers. This backgrounder will first provide a brief historical overview of the conflict and then explore the changing military situation.
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AFRICOM facilitates the United States advancing on the African continent, taking control of the Eurasian continent and proceeding to take the helm of the entire globe.
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This report explores what is sure to become one of the most salient issues of the coming decade - the energy security outlook for BRIC countries.
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This backgrounder explores the rise of the Pakistan Taliban.
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This backgrounder seeks to explore the origins and breadth of American torture during the Bush presidency by compiling all relevant information from recently de-classified memos and reports.
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Rising global temperatures and melting Arctic ice are changing the geopolitical reality in the far north. In the span of a decade, the Arctic has gone from being considered a ‘global common’ to a hotly contested economic goldmine
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Following the December 1991 cancellation of elections by Algeria’s governing National Liberation Front (FLN) after gains by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in the first round of voting, Islamist guerrillas launched a decade-long civil war of horrific brutality that claimed upwards of 200,000 lives. Yet there is compelling evidence that suggests the covert manipulation of opposition forces by elements of the Algerian government, supported by the West, as well as military collusion in massacres officially ascribed to Islamic rebels.
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This reports examines the 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia, focusing on the roles played by Indonesian and western intelligence agencies.
Backgrounder
This report will look at the 2006 London liquid bomb plot, which was “foiled” by the UK government, and will focus on the roles played by intelligence agencies and analyzing the plausibility of the plot.
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This report examines the role played by British intelligence and the British Army in collusion with the IRA and other paramilitary terrorist organizations; supplying weapons and explosives, allowing bombings to go forward and even committing murder in the name of “fighting terror.”
