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Sunday, 04 October 2026
How Can the Mashriq Overcome Its Escalating Security Disorder?
Al Jazeera Centre for Studies
Saturday, 03 October 2026
Sleepwalking into Austerity
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Aid May Be Dead. Long Live International Development
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
India–Taiwan Cooperation and the Rise of Functional Multilateralism
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
How Ports Can Catalyse the Blue Economy
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Time Is of the Essence: Building a Future-Ready Maritime Legal Ecosystem
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The New Alamein Agenda: Why Egypt Is India’s Gateway to the African Century
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Beyond Delivery: Reimagining Anganwadis for Better Nutrition Outcomes
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Friday, 02 October 2026
Worried About the Middle Class? Do Not Forget the Wealth Effect
Heritage Foundation
Agency: The Psychological History of Human Progress
Cato Institute
Lessons From Anniversaries: October 7, Three Years On
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Climate Resilience Starts With Care
Brookings
The U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Mail Ballots, Congressional Maps, and the SAVE Database
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Brazil’s 2026 Election: What to Know and What’s at Stake
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
CO26209 | Reintegration: Indonesia’s Next Frontier Against Terrorist Recidivism
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
From Strategic Logic to Practical Implementation: A Phased Agenda for U.S.-ROK Shipbuilding Cooperation
RAND Corporation
Why the U.S. Navy Needs Escort Carriers
Heritage Foundation
Sweden’s Election Has a Harsh Lesson for “America First” Conservatives
Heritage Foundation
Another Win for the Task Force To Eliminate Fraud
Heritage Foundation
Trump’s Taiwan Arms Calculus: Bargaining with Beijing, Reassuring the Region
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Sanctions are a National Priority but Where is the Data to Prove It?
RUSI
What Should the U.S. Government Do in Response to the FBI Hack?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Trump’s Greenland Deal: Modest Gains, Lasting Costs
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The State of Global Development: Key Takeaways from UNGA 2026
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The place of Central Asia in Azerbaijan’s foreign policy
AIR Center
What is the debasement trade?
Brookings
Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the Coast Guard: Holistic Study and Analysis
RAND Corporation
AI Data Center Siting on Federal Lands: An Energy View
RAND Corporation
The Absorption Frontier
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The New Geography of Choice in Green Shipping
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
What’s next for US-China relations? A conversation with Kevin Rudd
Brookings
Thursday, 01 October 2026
Chelsea Follett discusses her Hill article, “Paying stay-at-home parents isn’t a neutral way to subsidize childcare,” on WAJR’s Metronews Talkline
Cato Institute
Neera Tanden, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress, cited the Cato Institute’s defense of CAP against a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit brought by the Trump administration during an appearance on The Contrarian Podcast
Cato Institute
Justin Logan discusses whether the war against Iran is a win for the US on a Washington Examiner’s WEX NOW YouTube Short
Cato Institute
Justin Logan discusses whether voters will accept President Trump’s justification for starting the war on Iran on a Washington Examiner’s WEX NOW YouTube Short
Cato Institute
Romina Boccia discusses the future of social security on the Concord Coalition’s Facing the Future YouTube Short
Cato Institute
David J. Bier’s comments from the Raw Story article, “Court documents cast doubt on ICE claims in DoorDash driver shooting: ‘Trained to lie’,” are cited on The Thom Hartmann Show podcast
Cato Institute
The Final Stretch to the 2026 Midterms
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
CO26208 | Bridging Generational Gaps for Safer Gaming
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Dangote and Musk: Africa needs both industrialists and tech innovators
ISS Africa
(Institute for Security Studies)
Federal Government Leviathan Grows One $5,000 “Dividend” at a Time
Heritage Foundation
World Leaders at CFR: Highlights From UNGA 2026
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Announcing "Please Discuss …," conversations rooted in research and a search for what’s true
Brookings
The paradox of unhappy growth: Is the U.S. an outlier?
Brookings
Recent SCOTUS decisions threaten to uproot communities’ voting power
Brookings
How multiracial churches are depoliticizing Black Americans
Brookings
Michigan voters can shape the future of prison pay-to-stay
Brookings
How cultural expression shapes policymaking and why it matters for democracy
Brookings
How Trump's tariff policies have shifted economic opportunity for Black Americans
Brookings
How Demand for GLP-1s Overwhelmed the Global Drug System
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Trump’s AI Safety Pact Is Toothless. But There Is a Path Forward.
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Johnson v. United States
Cato Institute
Higher Rates Make Social Security Shortfall Look Smaller, Not Safer
Cato Institute
Michael F. Cannon discusses new COVID regulations for nursing homes on The Bob Harden Show podcast
Cato Institute
Justin Logan debates Hugh Hewitt on the cost of the Iran war ahead of the midterm elections on The Washington Examiner’s WEX NOW podcast
Cato Institute
Scott Lincicome discusses elevated oil prices and the recovery of oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to near pre-war levels on MS NOW’s Money, Power & Politics with Stephanie Ruhle
Cato Institute
Scott Lincicome discusses elevated oil prices and the recovery of oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to near pre-war levels and the growth of the US economy on the Daily Wire’s Morning Wire podcast
Cato Institute
Escaping Venezuela
Cato Institute
9/11's Forgotten Lesson
RAND Corporation
Why This Legacy Newspaper Is Siding With Illegal Aliens Over American Citizens
Heritage Foundation
The defence dividend of the Abraham Accords
IISS
(International Institute for Strategic Studies)
Boeing’s F/A-XX win: turning the corner on a difficult decade?
IISS
(International Institute for Strategic Studies)
Why Serbia’s Election Matters to Israel’s Arsenal
RUSI
Why the UK Needs a National Open-Source Intelligence Centre
RUSI
Accumulation Is Not Diversification: Rethinking Korea’s External Resilience in the AI Era
KIEP
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)
What Canada Knows About American Power
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
India Must Urgently Build Its Own AI Safety Institute
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
What Should Korea’s Take on “The Asian NATO” Be?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Restoring the Economics of Copper Processing
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
OTS Expands Agenda From Connectivity to Security
AIR Center
Rethinking India’s Defence Offsets Policy
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
The Prospects for Personal Injury Class Actions in the United States: Key Themes from a Discussion with Experts
RAND Corporation
Policy Analysis in an Age of Technological and Social Transition: Four Futures and an Agenda for the Field
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica’s Recent Economic and Social Trends: A Case Study with Regional Comparisons
RAND Corporation
Revising the Post-2022 Arctic Security Literature
NUPI
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
From the Primacy of Politics to Benchmarks: Realising UNISFA’s Protection of Civilians Approach in Abyei
NUPI
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
The Adaptive Peacebuilding Guidebook
NUPI
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
The Maldives’ Defence Reforms Under President Muizzu: India’s Dilemmas
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
What Nepal’s Floods Reveal About Building in the Indian Himalayas
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Incumbency and Innovation: How US Banks Are Building Their Own Blockchain
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Far Friends, Near Foes: Xi, Trump, and the Taiwan Question
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Tradwives and the manosphere: New cultural scripts for parenting
Brookings
What Questions Should Leaders Ask Before Going to War?
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
A Sovereignist Foreign Policy? The World as Seen by National Rally Lawmakers
Ifri
(Institut français des relations internationales)
Community-led resilience: Improving disaster preparedness, response, and recovery for Black people and places
Brookings
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