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Defense and Foreign Affairs is a geopolitical news publication offered by the International Strategic Studies Association.

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• Transitions: France, India, Iraq, Jordan, Madagascar

  Published 26 November 2010 | viewed 1,153 times

  France: Pres. Nicolas Sarkozy reshuffled the French Cabinet on November 14, 2010, to prepare for the 2012 Presidential Elections. He added more conservatives to the…

• Pakistan Defense Reorganization: Positive, Stabilizing Move to Enable Security After a Coalition Withdrawal

  Published 01 August 2010 | viewed 1,145 times

  The extension on July 22, 2010, by Pakistan Prime Minister Raza Yousuf Gilani, of the service of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen. Ashfaq Parvez…

• Somaliland Predictions Bearing Out: al-Shabaab Terrorist Group Empowered; Ethiopia May React

  Published 30 July 2010 | viewed 4,989 times

  The Republic of Somaliland’s incoming President, Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo, on July 28, 2010, announced his new Cabinet, but the formation of the Government has done…

• Impact of Iran Sanctions Legislation: An Energy Perspective

  Published 09 July 2010 | viewed 1,126 times

  Q:  Two weeks ago, the US House and Senate both overwhelmingly approved legislation (HR 2194) authorizing the president to sanction businesses that supply Iran with…

• Somaliland Presidential Election Besieged by Well-Financed Islamists, Threatening Horn/Red Sea Stability

  Published 01 July 2010 | viewed 231 times

  It is now apparent that moves forecast by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs  by pan-Somalians and Islamists to undermine, overthrow, and discredit the Republic of Somaliland’s…

• Syrian Intelligence Involvement in the "Gaza Flotilla" Incident

  Published 28 June 2010 | viewed 232 times

  GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs sources in Croatia confirmed on June 14, 2010, that a key Syrian intelligence officer had been onboard the Turkish ship, the…

• Strategic Consequences Likely from Overthrow of Australian Prime Minister Rudd in Run-Up to General Elections

  Published 25 June 2010 | viewed 1,436 times

  The rapidly-emerging leadership challenge to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd resulted, in the morning of June 24, 2010, in Mr Rudd refusing to contest the…

• Violence and Fraud Being Injected into the Somaliland Presidential Election Process

  Published 20 May 2010 | viewed 2,317 times

  The delicate security situation in and around the Horn of Africa by mid-May 2010 began to get dramatically worse, with the potential for major problems…

• Nigerian Uncertainties Created by Presidential Election Ambition May Hurt Global Energy Markets

  Published 13 May 2010 | viewed 3,293 times

  The apparent decision on May 11, 2010 — discreetly revealed by two Nigerian newspapers the next day — that Nigerian Pres. Dr Goodluck Jonathan would…

• Piracy In The Puntland Region of Somalia

  Published 12 May 2010 | viewed 4,764 times

  The Puntland region of Somalia has, in recent years, been increasingly seen as the springboard for piracy against commercial vessels operating in and through the…

• Somaliland's Presidential Election Assumes Growing Priority as Major Powers Sense Strategic Urgency of the Horn Situation

  Published 22 April 2010 | viewed 4,210 times

  Somaliland’s delayed Presidential election is back on track after a period of active foreign interference to manipulate the electoral rolls, and is expected to take…

• Tension Builds in the Gulf of Guinea as Competition for Economic Resources Increases

  Published 02 April 2010 | viewed 3,914 times

  The strategic framework and the correlation of forces in the Gulf of Guinea — one of the most significant and growing energy resource regions of…

• Renewed Battle for the Falkland Islands Suits the Embattled British, Argentine Leaders, and Others

  Published 01 March 2010 | viewed 206 times

  The artificially-engendered revival of the dispute, which began in February 2010 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands in…

• The US-PRC Strategic Divide Begins

  Published 11 February 2010 | viewed 2,339 times

  The simmering difficulties in the US strategic relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were, by the beginning of 2010, ready to emerge despite…

• Despite Financial Constraints, Indonesia Continues to Slowly Modernize its Defenses

  Published 27 January 2010 | viewed 3,647 times

  Indonesia, although a considerable distance from being a state capable of projecting power, has begun to bring greater focus to its strategic situation, and, at…

• Nigerian Leadership Crisis Impacting Global Energy Markets

  Published 20 December 2009 | viewed 2,550 times

  The illness of Nigerian Pres. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has now reached the point where it can no longer be hidden from the Nigerian electorate, and…

• Iran Gains Strategic Momentum Balancing Russia, the PRC and the West

  Published 11 December 2009 | viewed 3,033 times

  Iran is gathering momentum to become a great regional power with global implications. It is already a nuclear weapons power, with externally-acquired nuclear weapons. But…