The CIMSEC blog has theme weeks, which I think is a nice idea.

Imagine a theme month here at Council followed by the same theme months two months later in Blog and Journal.
Themes could be (just to offer a feeling for what I think of)
- The conflict between Armenia and Azarbaijan
- The threshold between domestic conflict and foreign intervention
- the fiscal costs of adding or having a military expeditionary capability, and comparison thereof with non-military efforts in foreign policy
- The fate of proxies (a list for the 1948-today period)
- unresolved border conflicts on land
- unresolved maritime zone conflicts, history and IL

Previously entirely or partially uninvolved outsiders could be invited to contribute by moderators and members.