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Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Sri Lanka’s NPP Government. From System Change to Structural Compliance
Ifri
(Institut français des relations internationales)
Capping the wrong problem: Why Parent PLUS loan limits may miss the mark
Brookings
The signal and substance of the new Saudi-Pakistan defense pact
Brookings
Surgical Procedure Time Comparisons: Comparing Physician Fee Schedule Intraservice Times with Real-World Times as Observed in National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Intraoperative Times and Anesthesia Claims
RAND Corporation
Biosecurity governance across uncertain artificial intelligence futures
RAND Corporation
The Artificial General Intelligence Race and International Security
RAND Corporation
Understanding the Theoretical Limits of AI-Enabled Pathogen Design: Insights from a Delphi Study
RAND Corporation
Protecting Schools Virtually: Cybersecurity and Threats on K–12 School Computer Systems
RAND Corporation
Building More Trust in School Threat Reporting
RAND Corporation
Understanding School Safety Trends: Insights for a Safer Future
RAND Corporation
Addressing the Fear of School Violence Is Its Own Policy Challenge
RAND Corporation
Are Active Shooter Drills in K–12 Schools Aligned with Best Practices? Insights from Recent Surveys of Educators
RAND Corporation
Artificially Intelligent Bullies: Dealing with Deepfakes in K–12 Schools
RAND Corporation
Teens Are Using Chatbots as Therapists. That's Alarming
RAND Corporation
A Conversation With Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld of Ecuador
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
How India’s digital journey offers a replicable model to Africa
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Chabahar Wrong Port of Call for US
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Resilient Harvests: The Promise and Debate Around India’s Gene-Edited Rice
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
South Asia’s Angry Capitals: Youth Inclusion Must Shape Urban Policy
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Pakistan’s Perilous Gambit: ISKP vs the Taliban and Baloch
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Biosecurity Governance Across Uncertain Artificial Intelligence Futures: Perspectives from a Side Event on Biosecurity and Frontier AI at the 2025 AI Action Summit
RAND Corporation
Advantages and pitfalls of green public procurement as a European strategic tool
Bruegel
A Conversation With President Rashad al-Alimi of Yemen
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Learning what matters in 10 Global South contexts
Brookings
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Nigeria must prevent dung being used for IED terror attacks
ISS Africa
(Institute for Security Studies)
Shaping the future of AI through responsible innovation
Brookings
Recommendations for responsible use of AI in financial services
Brookings
Empowering women and girls in post-conflict northern Uganda through skill-based education
Brookings
A bromance revived: Erdoğan returns to the White House after 4 years
Brookings
Is China circumventing US tariffs via Mexico and Canada?
Brookings
Beyond Kimmel, the FCC controversy exposes a larger struggle over free speech
Brookings
Comments on site-neutral payment provisions of CMS' proposed OPPS rule
Brookings
Universal school choice programs mostly benefit the wealthy unless policymakers act to prevent it
Brookings
IP25092 | Malaysia’s Response to Israeli Airstrikes on Hamas Leaders in Doha: International and Domestic Contexts
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Trump’s Boycott of the UN’s Human Rights Process Puts America Last, Not First
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Trump Addresses the UN General Assembly
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Rethinking Space Force Personnel Reform: A Pragmatic, Agile Path Forward
RAND Corporation
Israel Can No Longer Wish Palestine Away
RAND Corporation
Expert Reaction: Trump’s Tylenol–Autism Claim
Cato Institute
Cato Expert Discusses Anti-Antifa Executive Order
Cato Institute
Peak Human
Cato Institute
SEC Commissioner Challenges Financial Surveillance
Cato Institute
Nine for the Navy: Proposals to Accelerate a Delayed Naval Buildup
Heritage Foundation
Euro-area monetary policy in a more shock-prone world
Bruegel
All together now: growing US–Indo-Pacific maritime co-sustainment
IISS
(International Institute for Strategic Studies)
The Tokenization of Money: What it Means for the International Monetary System
PCNS
(Policy Center for the New South)
What Would Charlie Kirk Do?
Heritage Foundation
The Yarlung Zangbo Hydroelectric Project: Power at a Price
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The Saudi-Pakistan Nuclear Agreement. The Same But Very Different
RUSI
Natural gas has a small but important role in Africa’s energy transition
Atlantic Council
The critical minerals boom is an opportunity to integrate public health into mining operations
Atlantic Council
Shigeru Ishiba’s Diplomatic Legacy
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Dispatch from 2,200 feet over Gaza: What I learned from airdropping desperately needed food aid
Atlantic Council
How to write a US National Security Strategy
Atlantic Council
Industrial policy for the final frontier: Governing growth in the emerging space economy
Brookings
RAND Europe Space Hub
RAND Corporation
The Well-Tempered AI Assistant for Policy Processes: Approximately Optimizing AI Outputs to Empower Policy Discussions
RAND Corporation
The Future of Artificial Intelligence Policy Is the Future of Competing Demands
RAND Corporation
RAND Social and Economic Rethink, Volume 1
RAND Corporation
Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Sectoral Transformation: Implications for Health Care, Financial Services, Climate and Energy, and Transportation
RAND Corporation
Rethinking Social and Economic Policy in the Age of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Cascading Impacts of AI Adoption
RAND Corporation
What the Russian drone incursion into Poland means for NATO
Clingendael
FBA Research Brief: Prospects for Dialogue in the Central Sahel
NUPI
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
Prospects for Dialogue in the Central Sahel
NUPI
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
China’s Military Parade 2025: Enhanced Capabilities, Strategic Intent
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The H-1B Challenge: A Pointer to a Strife Within the US
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Beyond Big Bang and Gradualism: India’s Developmental State
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
How AI Can Deliver Quality Learning at Scale
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
New Strategic EU-India Agenda: Brussels and Delhi Deepen Ties
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
A Conversation With President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Media Briefing: Unpacking the President’s UNGA Speech
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Monday, 22 September 2025
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez talks about the future of the communications landscape | The TechTank Podcast
Brookings
GEO Group v. Menocal
Cato Institute
New Analysis: Government to Blame for Sky-High Health Care Prices
Cato Institute
Kim Jong Un Signals end to Denuclearization Talks
Cato Institute
Robert Corn-Revere’s Washington Post op-ed, “The Irony of Jimmy Kimmel’s Ouster,” is cited on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal
Cato Institute
Alex Nowrasteh’s blog post, “Politically Motivated Violence Is Rare in the United States,” is cited on The LOOPcast
Cato Institute
Ilya Somin participates in the event, “Legal Plunder Making Money Off Policing and Punishment,” hosted by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota
Cato Institute
Jennifer Huddleston discusses government jawboning on Nexstar affiliate WRIC’s 8 News at 5:30PM
Cato Institute
CO25194 | The CVE Funding Crisis: Implications for Singapore and ASEAN
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
CO25195 | Mediation as Strategy: India’s Missed Opportunity?
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Football Rankings Are Important, but This One Matters More
Heritage Foundation
Focusing on M23 allows ADF insurgents to expand in eastern DRC
ISS Africa
(Institute for Security Studies)
Expanding Syria’s multilateral development bank engagement
Atlantic Council
A three-pillar strategy for US democracy assistance in Central and Eastern Europe
Atlantic Council
Nobody lost Taiwan
Brookings
Rethinking multilateralism for a new era
Brookings
Africa can provide a faster solution to US critical minerals needs
Brookings
AI safety and security can enable innovation in Global Majority countries
Brookings
Climate Realism Special Issue: Climate Week 2025
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Program to Reduce Insulin Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries Has Cut Spending, Improved Diabetes Care
RAND Corporation
To Meet AI Energy Demands, Start with Maximizing the Power Grid
RAND Corporation
Five Questions: Melanie Zaber on Making It in the Middle Class
RAND Corporation
Testing the waters: Russia’s use of banned chemicals in Ukraine
IISS
(International Institute for Strategic Studies)
Why has Japan deployed fighter jets to NATO bases in the US, Canada, and Europe?
Atlantic Council
The European Radical Right in the Age of Trump 2.0
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Preventing an Era of Nuclear Anarchy: Nuclear Proliferation and American Security
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The U.S. Media’s Big Lie About Charlie Kirk Is Chillingly Predictable
Heritage Foundation
Navigating Tariffs: Securing Medicines and Safeguarding Innovation
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Countering Rogue Drones: Why India Should Lead Multinational Exercises
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Wartime Zapad 2025 Exercise: Russia's Strategic Adaptation and NATO
RUSI
The Promises and Pitfalls of AI in Wargaming
RUSI
Russia Out, Israel In: The Double Standard of International Sport
IAI
(Istituto Affari Internazionali)
Charlie Kirk’s Killing Bares Rising Extremism in the US Body Politic
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Moldova's Crucial Parliamentary Election. What's at Stake?
Ifri
(Institut français des relations internationales)
Principles with Pragmatism: Insights for African Foreign Ministries’ UN Strategies
SAIIA
(South African Institute of International Affairs)
A Test of Executive Power
Brookings
The socio-economic value of effectively managing moderate atopic dermatitis in Europe
RAND Corporation
Evaluation of the Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation: Final report
RAND Corporation
Fertility Decline in China and Its National Military, Structural, and Regime Security: China Population Research
RAND Corporation
Geography And Fentanyl: Explaining The Disproportionate Rise In Opioid Overdose Deaths Among Black Americans
RAND Corporation
Convergence in Grand Strategies: The France-UAE Partnership in AI
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Securing India’s Future with Space Econometrics
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
From Sanctions to Strikes: US-Venezuela Tensions in the Caribbean
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
US Tariffs and the Case for Diversifying India’s Export Basket
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
How much of a threat to US debt sustainability is Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act?
Bruegel
A Conversation With President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of Namibia
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture With Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Alberto Musalem: The outlook for the US economy and monetary policy
Brookings
Sunday, 21 September 2025
Johan Norberg discusses his book, Peak Human: What We Can Learn From History’s Greatest Civilizations, on The Missing Piece podcast
Cato Institute
David Bier’s criticism of the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on H-1B visas is cited on DD India’s Newshour
Cato Institute
Alex Nowrasteh discusses his blog post, “Politically Motivated Violence Is Rare in the United States,” on KCMO’s America’s News Hour with Host & Producer Bill Bernardoni
Cato Institute
Neal McCluskey discusses book banning and censorship on McCuistion TV’s Perspectives Matter
Cato Institute
El Cato Podcast interviews Daniel Pereyra on his book, Alberdi. La Indomita Luz, on Radio Centro 101
Cato Institute
Alex Nowrasteh’s blog post, “Politically Motivated Violence Is Rare in the United States,” is cited on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS
Cato Institute
Veronique de Rugy discusses US-UK trade negotiations on FBN’s Varney & Co.
Cato Institute
The Effect of Family Income on Children’s Academic Achievement
Cato Institute
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