Contents
Events at a Glance
Perspectives
Strategic Policy Issues
• Islamist Terrorism: al-Qaeda Resurgent
• Climate Change: Security Implications and Regional Impacts
• The Military Use of Space
The Americas
• The United States: Facing Reality?
• Canada ’s Growing International Confidence • Latin America : The Limits of Populism
Europe
• France : Towards a New Political Landscape?
• Germany : International Demands Confront Domestic Restraints
• Developments in European Defence
• United Kingdom : Brown Gets His Chance
• The Balkans: Year of Frustration
• Turkey : New Uncertainties
Russia / Eurasia
Middle East / Gulf
• Iraq : Persistent Conflict
• Iran : Ahmadinejad’s Brittle Presidency
• The Middle East’s Deepening Dysfunction
• Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States: Cautious Hedging
Africa
• Somalia and Sudan: a Web of Conflicts
• Hurdles for African Democracy
• Assisting Africa: the G8 and China
Asia
• China : Growth and Engagement
• Korean Security: Roller-Coaster Ride
• Japan : Active Diplomacy
• South Asia: Indian Growth, Regional Turbulence
• Afghanistan : Spreading Insurgency
• Southeast Asia : Domestic Instability and Sensitive
Bilateral Relations
• Australia ’s Global and Regional Role
Prospectives
Index
Maps: Strategic Geography section
Global Issues
• Projected carbon-emissions trends
• Selected migration patterns
• The dynamics of the US–China relationship
• The US ballistic missile defence system: expanding into Eastern Europe
Europe
• The EU at 50 and its members’ troop deployments
Middle East/Gulf
• The Baghdad security plan
Asia-Pacific
• Afghanistan: ISAF’s deployments
• Afghanistan: opium poppy cultivation
• Pacific island strife
Africa
• China’s investments in Africa
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo: fragile after elections
Americas
• Two years after Hurricane Katrina: reconstruction efforts in New Orleans
• The Guantanamo Bay detention facility
• The UN mission in Haiti
• Another year of elections in Latin America
