Think Tank Alert

Monday, 17 August 2026
Big city growth is slowing, reversing a post-pandemic resurgence
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Building resilience in concentrated cyber ecosystems | The TechTank Podcast
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
CO26177 | Sailing Around Price Caps: How Shadow Operators Bypass Measures to Curb Russian Oil Revenues
tiny icon of rsis  RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
CO26178 | Addressing a Maritime Governance Problem – The “Shadow Fleet”
tiny icon of rsis  RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Unclaimed Boat Strikes in Ecuador: Has Trump’s Operation Southern Spear Opened a Hidden Front?
tiny icon of cfr  CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)
The State of Public Education in 2026 in Five Charts
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
The intelligence-operative gig economy: from surveillance to sabotage
tiny icon of iiss  IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies)
Starmer, Burnham and Foreign Aid: A Troubling Inheritance
tiny icon of rusi  RUSI
U.S.–Andean Security Cooperation: Essential for Hemispheric Security and Stab...
tiny icon of heritage  Heritage Foundation
A Geothermal and Nuclear Strategy for the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
tiny icon of ceip  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement’s Impact on Middle East Security Strategies
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
What India Can Learn from Dubai’s Africa Strategy
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
After Iran: A Scenario for Renewed Trump-Kim Summitry
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Emergency Episode: What's Happening with Korea? Military exercises, Kim Jong-un and Iran
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The Implications of Japan’s New National Intelligence Bureau
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Are SBIR “Mills” Truly a Problem?
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The Value of U.S. Land Power
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Why Did the Plan to Bring Iran’s Kurds into the War Collapse Before It Even Began?
tiny icon of aljazeera  Al Jazeera Centre for Studies
Building, Not Buying: India’s HALEU Decision
tiny icon of idsa  IDSA (Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Integrated Strategic Forecasting: A New Methodology to Enhance Decision Advantage
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Realising the 100 Days Mission
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Tobacco Dependency Treatment Services for People with Severe Mental Illness: A Mixed Methods Rapid Evaluation
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Using Iterative Reverse Scenario Logic to Manage Model Risk in Financial Climate Risk Assessment
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
AI monitoring and threat modelling in the UK’s critical national infrastructure
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
AI Development in the United States and China: Evidence from a New Dataset of AI Developer Firms
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Organizational Resilience in Puerto Rico's Primary Care Clinics: Absorbing, Adapting, and Transforming Under Stress
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Upgrading Slums as Pathway to Climate Resiliency: Evaluating Urban Infrastructure Impact on Health During Heatwaves
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Virtual Culturally Grounded Interventions for Substance Use in Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Emerging Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Seizing the Next Decade: A Proposed Prioritisation Framework for Rwanda’s Economic Growth
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
China’s Demographic Shift and the Transformation of Healthcare
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Beyond Territory: The Islamic State’s Afghan Branch and Its Transnational Reach
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Friday, 14 August 2026
US-China rivalry puts Africa’s climate diplomacy to the test
tiny icon of issafrica  ISS Africa (Institute for Security Studies)
CO26176 | Ressentiment, Rancour and Cognitive Dissonance: Addressing the Psycho-Spiritual Dynamics of Youth Radicalisation in Singapore
tiny icon of rsis  RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Legal Fellow Mike Fox: Federal Law Needed to Rein in Flock Camera Surveillance
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye: a new defence pact
tiny icon of iiss  IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies)
Is a New Chinese Runway Taking Flight at Antelope Reef?
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Private Sector Cybercrime Disruption: Compatible with Statecraft?
tiny icon of rusi  RUSI
The Cyberattacks on the U.S Water Sector and the Iran Question: Escalation or Opportunism?
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Illegal Firearms Markets: Transaction Patterns, Evolving Sources, and Importance in Criminal Misuse
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Stability and Turbulence in Illegal Drug Markets
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
"The Force Is in Our Union": Church-Based Environmental Advocacy Training and Neighborhood Change in East Los Angeles
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
The Frontier Audit 2026: Tracking India’s Scientific Readiness
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Power, Prison, and Partnership: Imran Khan in the New US–Pakistan Relationship
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Rethinking SAARC’s Revival
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Anti-Dumping as Industrial Policy: India's Solar Ascent
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Why Health Remains Underfunded in Global Climate Finance
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
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