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Monday, 24 August 2026
Why Africa's Economic Resilience Matters for India
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Hybrid Navy: Building the Maritime Operating System
RUSI
What’s Behind China’s Problematic Advance in Uruguay?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Out of Bounds: What the U.S. Government Should Do in Response to AI Agent Containment Failures
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Leveraging the Federal Select Agent Program to Oversee Nucleic Acids: Volume 1, Analysis of Opportunities to Control Genomes, Genes, and Gene Fragments Through the Federal Select Agent Program’s Authorities
RAND Corporation
Why Employers Struggle to Manage the Cost of Their Employee Health Benefits—and What Might Help: A Policy Brief on Cost Control in Self-Insured Employer Health Plans
RAND Corporation
Leveraging the Federal Select Agent Program to Oversee Nucleic Acids: Volume 2, Potential Benefits and Burdens, Recommendations, and Implementation Considerations
RAND Corporation
Remote Interpretation During In-Person Medical Encounters: Perspectives from Professional Spanish-language Interpreters
RAND Corporation
The 1814 British Sack of Washington
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
How to Reshape U.S. Defense Production to Counter China
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
BRICS: Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation, and Sustainability
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The Ocean as Hinterland: A New Lens for Island Connectivity
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Integrated Air Defence: Preserving Combat Power in Modern Warfare
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Open-Weight AI: Shifting the Frontier in India's Favour
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Sunday, 23 August 2026
The Case for BRICS Cooperation: Energy Security and a Managed Energy Transition
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Friday, 21 August 2026
SADC’s geopolitical moment will not wait
ISS Africa
(Institute for Security Studies)
CO26182 | The New Politics of Nickel: Chinese Investment in Indonesia and Structural Rebalancing
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Tariff the Chinese Cargo Ship, Not the American Consignment Shop
Heritage Foundation
Making Americans Healthier Again
Heritage Foundation
Germany’s long-range forecast: unsettled
IISS
(International Institute for Strategic Studies)
The Chișinău Declaration
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
PMF and Iraq’s Foreign-Policy Autonomy
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Assessing Japan’s 2026 Defence White Paper
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
US Troop Withdrawal from Europe: A Blessing in Disguise?
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The Next China Shock Will Hit Defence
RUSI
AI and Global Food Security: A Focus on Food Systems
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Understanding Drinking Water Spending Patterns in U.S. Local Governments
RAND Corporation
Return on Investment from Primary Care Price Reductions in a Consumer Choice Health Plan Design
RAND Corporation
Jeffrey Wenger Named RAND's Distinguished Chair, AI, Workers, and the Economy
RAND Corporation
Realising the 100 Days Mission: Accelerating Defence and Health Capabilities for Medical Countermeasures Readiness
RAND Corporation
The Environmental Racism Index: Estimating the Strength of Association Among Environmental Risk/Benefit, Mortgage Lending Disinvestment, and Racial/Ethnic Density Across US Geographies
RAND Corporation
What Is Nuclear Energy, and Why Is It Making a Comeback?
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Step By Step: Why The Saudi-Turkey-Egypt-Pakistan Axis Should Concern India
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The Strait of Hormuz and The Limits of Iranian Power
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Why India Must Invest in Talent over Technology
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Pakistan’s Rehabilitation in Washington: A Test for India-US Ties
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Thursday, 20 August 2026
Adam N. Michel discusses California’s proposed one-time billionaires tax on NPR’s Morning Edition
Cato Institute
Travis Fisher’s research in Consumer-Regulated Electricity is cited on The Clerisy Podcast
Cato Institute
Adam N. Michel’s blog post, “Who Will Pay for Democratic Socialism’s $200 Trillion Cost?,” is cited on FBN’s Kudlow
Cato Institute
Michael F. Cannon discusses rising Obamacare premiums and alternatives on The Bob Harden Show podcast
Cato Institute
Emily Ekins’ survey, “Cato Institute 2022 Student Debt Cancellation National Survey,” is cited on the Frames of Space podcast
Cato Institute
Adam N. Michel’s blog post, “Who Will Pay for Democratic Socialism’s $200 Trillion Cost?,” is cited on WIBC’s The Tony Kinnett Cast
Cato Institute
Vanessa Brown Calder’s article, “How Paid Family Leave Hurts Women,” is cited on the WorldviewTube podcast
Cato Institute
Mike Fox discusses Flock cameras on Talk Media Networks’ First Thing Today with Joe Thomas
Cato Institute
Adam N. Michel’s blog post, “Who Will Pay for Democratic Socialism’s $200 Trillion Cost?,” is cited on The Wright Report
Cato Institute
David J. Bier discusses the Trump administration’s immigration policy on the Mostly Peaceful Media Podcast
Cato Institute
Veronique de Rugy discusses her article, “Those Who Build and the Politicians Who Take,” on CBS Radio’s Eye on the World with John Batchelor
Cato Institute
SAJIA Special Issue Vol. 33.2: Digital Pathways to Peace in Africa
SAIIA
(South African Institute of International Affairs)
Why the EU’s new AI law matters for South African newsrooms
ISS Africa
(Institute for Security Studies)
Trump’s South Korea Social Post Poses Risks for the United States
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
The hidden tradeoffs of using Trump’s tariffs as leverage with China
Brookings
Beyond winning and losing: What Beijing wants from the Iran war
Brookings
Who's buying U.S. Treasury debt, and why?
Brookings
CO26181 | The Data Drought in Disinformation Research
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
What the Treasury’s Buyback Surprise Says About the Bond Market
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Cato Expert: Texas and Pennsylvania Data Center Limits Set a Troubling Precedent
Cato Institute
Ross v. United States
Cato Institute
Ream v. U.S. Department of the Treasury
Cato Institute
Cato Scholar Statement: Don’t Let Cannabis Data Spark a Moral Panic
Cato Institute
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Affordability?
Cato Institute
Rent Control: Mayor Mamdani Backs an Old, Bad Idea
Cato Institute
Freezing Eggs Is One Step Toward a Fatherless Dystopia
Heritage Foundation
Geopolitics in the Sahelian diaspora
DIIS
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
India’s Cockroach Janta Party protests: will it produce long-term change?
IISS
(International Institute for Strategic Studies)
The ‘Extinct Volcanoes’ Problem: Why Unit Strength Is Not Combat Power
RUSI
People as the Principal Capability of British Defence
RUSI
America Is Sailing Through the Taiwan Strait Less. Does It Matter?
Heritage Foundation
H-2A Visa Program Should Not Become an Amnesty, a Permanent Foreign-Labor Pip...
Heritage Foundation
Parents, Not Bureaucrats, Should Call the Shots
Heritage Foundation
We Need Ongoing Monitoring of AI and Political Information
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
China Risk Returns in American Bond Markets
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Thailand’s Myanmar Strategy: Restoring Access, Recalibrating Leverage
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The Titanium Bottleneck That Could Stall India's Fighter Jet and Submarine Plans
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The Presidential Memo on Combating Transnational Cybercrime: Implications for Industry and Government
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Open for Business
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Fueling Vulnerability: The Economic and Strategic Costs of Oil Dependence in the Pacific
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Rice at a Crossroads: Rethinking Japan’s Food Security
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Assessing Amnesty’s Claims on India–Israel Arms Transfers
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Reduced-Credit Bachelor’s Degrees in Ohio: Opportunities, Constraints, and Field-Level Feasibility
RAND Corporation
North Korea’s Strategic Rise
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Controversial First Steps of the Radev Cabinet
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
India’s Free Coaching Push: Can It Make Competitive Exams Fairer?
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Global AI Impact Commons Stories: KhetScore
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Strengthening education ecosystems through collaborative research and action: Learnings from Asia
Brookings
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