Series

SAGE International is an independent, non-profit virtual think tank, consultancy and education service provider. It combines the talents of an interdisciplinary network of Australian and international scholars and researchers analyzing contemporary statecraft and strategy, especially the interface between political, psychological and philosophical motivations and the application of force. SAGE Ideas and Concepts present the results of these analyses.

Publishers:	SAGE International
Publications:	In a World of Pandemic: A Snapshot of the Geopolitical Spectrum “To Begin the World over Again”: National Security after the Age of Corona Russia’s Forever President The Kyrgyz Streetocracy and the Unravelling of the Belt and Road Initiative Chernobyl, Coronavirus, and the Art of the Authoritarian Cover-Up: Who is to Blame, and What is to be Done? What is the Real Question at the Heart of Dibb’s Recent Musings on Australia’s Defence? President Bernie Sanders: What Would it Take and What Would it Mean? Trump or No Trump – What's better for the People’s Republic of China post-2020? Is Violence the Answer? #TrumpKurdishBetrayal – The Act that Left Syria’s Kurds to the Full Force of Turkey Two-Up Diplomacy: A Reflection on a World in Chaos Anti-Chinese Protests and the Kazakh State The Case to Conserve Karen State: Toward Biodiversity Protection and Climate Change Mitigation in Myanmar A Coming War with Iran? Sri Lankan Easter Attacks Alliances Are Only as Good (and Useful) as the Threats They Stand Against Kazakhstan’s Shifting Sands: President Nazarbayev’s Legacy and What Follows Has the Sun Finally Set on Great Britain? A Framework for Effective Relations: Social Scientists and the Military in Operations Other than War Uzbekistan´s Second Chance Потёмкиность: The Illusion of Russian Elections and Russian Power Is Europe at a Pre-Revolutionary Stage? Putin and the Bolsheviks The Rational Actor’s MADMAN Theory for the New Age: The Korean Mutually Assured Death-Grip ´Black Holes and Revelations´: The Connection between Failed Expectations and Modern Terrorism Strategic Hedging Helps Qatar Weather the Current Crisis Never Neglect the ´Demos´ in Democracy Marginal Losses: An Explanation of Suboptimal Institutional and System Performance Wanted: A New Ideology Metronome of the Waves: Gauging Hong Kong´s Climate Change Resiliency Information War: The War for the ´Truthful´ High Ground Greed and the Clandestine War on the People A Track to the Taiga: Russian-American Arboreal Cooperation Attack on Olympus: Do the Russian Hacks during the 2016 US Presidential Campaign Constitute an Attack on the United States? Darkness before the Dawn: The Fall of Aleppo and a Russian/Iranian Role in a Possible Peace Settlement for Syria ´Jungle is finished´ - The Demolished Refugee Camp In Calais, France Making Russia Policy Brexit – The View from Cornwall New Thinking Redefines Japan´s Foreign and Aid Policy The Hezbollah-Iran Pivot: The Controlling Agencies behind Lebanon´s Sectarian Politics Systems Thinking in Irregular Conflicts: Al-Qaeda & the Islamic State Tribal Management Russia. Syria. War. The Asymmetry of Modern War Commitment Versus Convenience: Interpreting Ainu Culture in the Kuril Islands Dispute Where to From Here? Capitalising on the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) Terror in Australia: Investigating the Rhetoric and the Community Taming the Russian ‘Wild East’: What’s in it for the Asia-Pacific Region? Martin Place, Sydney, December 15, 2014 - Adelaide Conference Surfaces $20 Billion Submarine Issue ‘Team Australia’ Reacts to Domestic Terrorism Disproportionate Response? To Know or Not to Know: Ukraine, Russia & the West Lebanon and the Brink of Disaster Battle of Exceptionalism in the South China Sea Russia, Ukrainian Separatists & Malaysian Flight MH-17 The American Change of Heart over Syria ISIS Caliphate Forcing a Rethink of the Middle East Privacy in Perspective The Dragon and the Falcon: Chinese and Gulf Arab Neo-colonial Competition in 21st Century Africa Islands, Rivals, and the Way Forward Worrisome Happenings in the Gulf Cooperation Council Devil’s Advocate: International Motivations behind Crimea & Ukraine Ukraine v Russia: Diminishing Russian International Influence? Hezbollah's Current Strategic Dilemma Sunset on the ‘High Noon’ of US-Iranian Confrontation? Influence Activities in an Irregular Tapestry Blurred Lines: Kenya’s Predicament, Fighting Al-Shabaab, Fighting Somalia Syria, Black Swans and International Power Octroi de mer Heroes of the Digital Age God, Gold & Power Africa in the G-Zero World, a Microcosm of the Macrocosm The People’s Republic of Surveillancestan Integration or Amalgamation of Armed Services The New Challenges to Intelligence Scramble for Africa in the 21st Century Iraq's Problems and Fears for the Future The Inadequacy of Counter-Insurgency as 'Strategy' The Curious Case of Rupeisation North Korea: The Third Test An End-Game in Syria? Nemesis: Oil and Missiles in the 21st Century (Part 1) Nemesis: Oil and Missiles in the 21st Century (Part 2) Nemesis: Oil and Missiles in the 21st Century (Part 3) New Zealand Army’s Experience in Defeating Irregulars and the Future of Influence Activities Syria: The Vortex of Violence Gillard's Delhi Challenge: Win Over India and Get the PM Down Under Understanding the Way Great Leaders Live and Die The African Union at Another Crossroad Nuclear Reactor Realities Syria’s Crisis and the Possible Scenarios Ahead In Response to – ‘The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade’ China's Dependence Upon Oil Supply: Part 1 China's Dependence Upon Oil Supply: Part 2 Salient Features of the 18th African Union Summit Drone Wars and the Death of the Warrior Culture Australia’s Proposed 'Indo-Pacific' Strategy New Wine in Old Bottles Disinformation and Subversive Agitation in the Alterglobal Movement Final Days - The Decay of Robert Mugabe’s Personal Rule in Zimbabwe The Pirates of the Somali Coast Egypt: Autocracy, Theocracy or Democracy? International Adoption Somalia Roadmap to Peace Cultural Subversion and Disinformation in the Thought of Frans Van der Hoff and the Slow Food Movement The Road to Latakia Africa – A Clash of Civilisations: Traditionalism versus Modernity in the 21st Century Military Politics in Contemporary Vietnam Engaging Taliban - A Realistic Initiative Global Capitalism and 21st Century Fascism Whispering Bell Monitor: Monthly Regional Overview for July 2011 China's New Wave of Aggressive Assertiveness in the South China Sea Whispering Bell Monitor - Regional Overview - June 2011 Whispering Bell Monitor - Regional Overview - May 2011 The Politics of Carbon: A Case of Throwing Good Money after Bad? The Geopolitics of Egypt’s Change Power Without Glory Hezbollah's Putsch and Associated Difficulties Riddle of the Sands: A Middle East in Transition Man-Made Climate Change Study: Connie – The Answer to the Data Dilemma Looking for the ‘Good War’ Swan’s Song Goodbye Osama, and a Bit More Thought Please, President Obama Jordan Joining the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Strategic Regional Re-alignment Climate Change Fact Sheet In the Shadow of American Imperium Strategic Implications of Syria’s Instability Strategic Communication Recent Naval Exercises in the South China Sea Karzai Visit Further Strengthens Afghanistan-Iran Ties Japan’s Post Fukushima Diplomacy Israel-Hezbollah War Redux? Nuclear Disarmament: Impractical Initiatives Xinjiang Unrest a Long-Term Concern for China Erdogan, the Military and Turkey’s Future Libya: The Unconvincing Victory Australia's China Syndrome ´Back to the Future 4´ Containment of Iran: Elements of a Post-Iraq Withdrawal Security Architecture The Social Network, the Alter-Globalization Movement, and Counter-forums Why Night Raids in Afghanistan Should Continue Japan’s Response to China Threat Not CO2 but the Sun The Effect of a Doubling of the Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere as Depicted by Quantum Physics Environmental Security Issues Apocalypse Afghanistan The Complexity of the Maritime Realm in the 21st Century American Mideast Strategic Conundrums Does Size Matter Hezbollah Flexes Its Muscle in Southern Lebanon Humanitarian Relief Operations & Security Maritime Terrorism Re-Floating the Obama Presidency Global Maritime Awareness The Difficulties of Iran's Foreign Policy in Lebanon The Guns of Benyamin Netanyahu The Relevance of Geospatial Intelligence Systems in the 21st Century Turkey's New Middle East Role Walking the Line War Without End... Assange – Neither Saint Nor Sinner

Publishers:

SAGE International

Publications:

In a World of Pandemic: A Snapshot of the Geopolitical Spectrum
“To Begin the World over Again”: National Security after the Age of Corona
Russia’s Forever President
The Kyrgyz Streetocracy and the Unravelling of the Belt and Road Initiative
Chernobyl, Coronavirus, and the Art of the Authoritarian Cover-Up: Who is to Blame, and What is to be Done?
What is the Real Question at the Heart of Dibb’s Recent Musings on Australia’s Defence?
President Bernie Sanders: What Would it Take and What Would it Mean?
Trump or No Trump – What's better for the People’s Republic of China post-2020?
Is Violence the Answer?
#TrumpKurdishBetrayal – The Act that Left Syria’s Kurds to the Full Force of Turkey
Two-Up Diplomacy: A Reflection on a World in Chaos
Anti-Chinese Protests and the Kazakh State
The Case to Conserve Karen State: Toward Biodiversity Protection and Climate Change Mitigation in Myanmar
A Coming War with Iran?
Sri Lankan Easter Attacks
Alliances Are Only as Good (and Useful) as the Threats They Stand Against
Kazakhstan’s Shifting Sands: President Nazarbayev’s Legacy and What Follows
Has the Sun Finally Set on Great Britain?
A Framework for Effective Relations: Social Scientists and the Military in Operations Other than War
Uzbekistan´s Second Chance
Потёмкиность: The Illusion of Russian Elections and Russian Power
Is Europe at a Pre-Revolutionary Stage?
Putin and the Bolsheviks
The Rational Actor’s MADMAN Theory for the New Age: The Korean Mutually Assured Death-Grip
´Black Holes and Revelations´: The Connection between Failed Expectations and Modern Terrorism
Strategic Hedging Helps Qatar Weather the Current Crisis
Never Neglect the ´Demos´ in Democracy
Marginal Losses: An Explanation of Suboptimal Institutional and System Performance
Wanted: A New Ideology
Metronome of the Waves: Gauging Hong Kong´s Climate Change Resiliency
Information War: The War for the ´Truthful´ High Ground
Greed and the Clandestine War on the People
A Track to the Taiga: Russian-American Arboreal Cooperation
Attack on Olympus: Do the Russian Hacks during the 2016 US Presidential Campaign Constitute an Attack on the United States?
Darkness before the Dawn: The Fall of Aleppo and a Russian/Iranian Role in a Possible Peace Settlement for Syria
´Jungle is finished´ - The Demolished Refugee Camp In Calais, France
Making Russia Policy
Brexit – The View from Cornwall
New Thinking Redefines Japan´s Foreign and Aid Policy
The Hezbollah-Iran Pivot: The Controlling Agencies behind Lebanon´s Sectarian Politics
Systems Thinking in Irregular Conflicts: Al-Qaeda & the Islamic State Tribal Management
Russia. Syria. War.
The Asymmetry of Modern War
Commitment Versus Convenience: Interpreting Ainu Culture in the Kuril Islands Dispute
Where to From Here? Capitalising on the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)
Terror in Australia: Investigating the Rhetoric and the Community
Taming the Russian ‘Wild East’: What’s in it for the Asia-Pacific Region?
Martin Place, Sydney, December 15, 2014 -
Adelaide Conference Surfaces $20 Billion Submarine Issue
‘Team Australia’ Reacts to Domestic Terrorism
Disproportionate Response?
To Know or Not to Know: Ukraine, Russia & the West
Lebanon and the Brink of Disaster
Battle of Exceptionalism in the South China Sea
Russia, Ukrainian Separatists & Malaysian Flight MH-17
The American Change of Heart over Syria
ISIS Caliphate Forcing a Rethink of the Middle East
Privacy in Perspective
The Dragon and the Falcon: Chinese and Gulf Arab Neo-colonial Competition in 21st Century Africa
Islands, Rivals, and the Way Forward
Worrisome Happenings in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Devil’s Advocate: International Motivations behind Crimea & Ukraine
Ukraine v Russia: Diminishing Russian International Influence?
Hezbollah's Current Strategic Dilemma
Sunset on the ‘High Noon’ of US-Iranian Confrontation?
Influence Activities in an Irregular Tapestry
Blurred Lines: Kenya’s Predicament, Fighting Al-Shabaab, Fighting Somalia
Syria, Black Swans and International Power
Octroi de mer
Heroes of the Digital Age
God, Gold & Power
Africa in the G-Zero World, a Microcosm of the Macrocosm
The People’s Republic of Surveillancestan
Integration or Amalgamation of Armed Services
The New Challenges to Intelligence
Scramble for Africa in the 21st Century
Iraq's Problems and Fears for the Future
The Inadequacy of Counter-Insurgency as 'Strategy'
The Curious Case of Rupeisation
North Korea: The Third Test
An End-Game in Syria?
Nemesis: Oil and Missiles in the 21st Century (Part 1)
Nemesis: Oil and Missiles in the 21st Century (Part 2)
Nemesis: Oil and Missiles in the 21st Century (Part 3)
New Zealand Army’s Experience in Defeating Irregulars and the Future of Influence Activities
Syria: The Vortex of Violence
Gillard's Delhi Challenge: Win Over India and Get the PM Down Under
Understanding the Way Great Leaders Live and Die
The African Union at Another Crossroad
Nuclear Reactor Realities
Syria’s Crisis and the Possible Scenarios Ahead
In Response to – ‘The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade’
China's Dependence Upon Oil Supply: Part 1
China's Dependence Upon Oil Supply: Part 2
Salient Features of the 18th African Union Summit
Drone Wars and the Death of the Warrior Culture
Australia’s Proposed 'Indo-Pacific' Strategy
New Wine in Old Bottles
Disinformation and Subversive Agitation in the Alterglobal Movement
Final Days - The Decay of Robert Mugabe’s Personal Rule in Zimbabwe
The Pirates of the Somali Coast
Egypt: Autocracy, Theocracy or Democracy?
International Adoption
Somalia Roadmap to Peace
Cultural Subversion and Disinformation in the Thought of Frans Van der Hoff and the Slow Food Movement
The Road to Latakia
Africa – A Clash of Civilisations: Traditionalism versus Modernity in the 21st Century
Military Politics in Contemporary Vietnam
Engaging Taliban - A Realistic Initiative
Global Capitalism and 21st Century Fascism
Whispering Bell Monitor: Monthly Regional Overview for July 2011
China's New Wave of Aggressive Assertiveness in the South China Sea
Whispering Bell Monitor - Regional Overview - June 2011
Whispering Bell Monitor - Regional Overview - May 2011
The Politics of Carbon: A Case of Throwing Good Money after Bad?
The Geopolitics of Egypt’s Change
Power Without Glory
Hezbollah's Putsch and Associated Difficulties
Riddle of the Sands: A Middle East in Transition
Man-Made Climate Change
Study: Connie – The Answer to the Data Dilemma
Looking for the ‘Good War’
Swan’s Song
Goodbye Osama, and a Bit More Thought Please, President Obama
Jordan Joining the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Strategic Regional Re-alignment
Climate Change Fact Sheet
In the Shadow of American Imperium
Strategic Implications of Syria’s Instability
Strategic Communication
Recent Naval Exercises in the South China Sea
Karzai Visit Further Strengthens Afghanistan-Iran Ties
Japan’s Post Fukushima Diplomacy
Israel-Hezbollah War Redux?
Nuclear Disarmament: Impractical Initiatives
Xinjiang Unrest a Long-Term Concern for China
Erdogan, the Military and Turkey’s Future
Libya: The Unconvincing Victory
Australia's China Syndrome
´Back to the Future 4´
Containment of Iran: Elements of a Post-Iraq Withdrawal Security Architecture
The Social Network, the Alter-Globalization Movement, and Counter-forums
Why Night Raids in Afghanistan Should Continue
Japan’s Response to China Threat
Not CO2 but the Sun
The Effect of a Doubling of the Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere as Depicted by Quantum Physics
Environmental Security Issues
Apocalypse Afghanistan
The Complexity of the Maritime Realm in the 21st Century
American Mideast Strategic Conundrums
Does Size Matter
Hezbollah Flexes Its Muscle in Southern Lebanon
Humanitarian Relief Operations & Security
Maritime Terrorism
Re-Floating the Obama Presidency
Global Maritime Awareness
The Difficulties of Iran's Foreign Policy in Lebanon
The Guns of Benyamin Netanyahu
The Relevance of Geospatial Intelligence Systems in the 21st Century
Turkey's New Middle East Role
Walking the Line
War Without End...
Assange – Neither Saint Nor Sinner