The Council’s research programme comprises studies in strategy, political economy, constitutional design and civilizational history, addressed to the federation question. Papers are released to readers on request.
Deterrence, defence architecture, and the lessons of contemporary conflict for African security.
Finance, industrialization, and the structures of arrested development; the economics of federal scale.
Federation, confederation, variable geometry, and the mechanics by which unions are founded.
African history and philosophy as the foundation of the political project.
An examination of the war's central strategic lesson: that decapitation fails as a theory of victory where a population is bound to its state by something deeper than loyalty to a leader. The paper traces the sources of cohesion under attack, the logic of deterrence by denial, and the implications for a continent that has organized no defence of its own.
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