Think Tank Alert

Wednesday, 14 October 2026
Trump’s Census Proposal Is a Big Step in Restoring National Unity
tiny icon of heritage  Heritage Foundation
A Decade of India-South Korea Development Cooperation
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Why India Needs a GCC Strategy, Not Just Bilaterals
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
States Weekly: October 14, 2026
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The Art of Swarming
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Human Rights Abuses in Drone Production at Yelabuga
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Military spending in Russia’s draft federal budget for 2027 to 2029
tiny icon of sipri  SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
China’s Hydrogen Economy Five Years On
tiny icon of ifri  Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales)
Reforming regulation: A proposal to end unsound cost-benefit analysis requirements for tax and transfer rules
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Preventing health-related job loss: An evidence-based response to what is needed to provide effective, tiered caseworker support in the UK
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Helping people stay in work: How to deliver effective, early-intervention caseworker support
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Alcohol Use Trajectories Across Disasters: Associations With Depression and Illness Anxiety
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Suicide-Related Responses From AI Chatbots Through Application Programming Interfaces and Consumer-Facing Apps: Observational Cross-Sectional Comparative Study
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Regulating Artificial Intelligence Design to Prevent Youth Mental Health Harms
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Major Richard S. Heyser’s U-2 Mission Discovers Soviet Missiles in Cuba
tiny icon of cfr  CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)
The Chicago Boys and Chile’s Long-Run Growth
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
China-Pakistan Military-Strategic Collusion: Capabilities, Functions, and Implications for India
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
The PERM Freeze: A New Stress Test for India-U.S. Technology Ties
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
A Multi-Trillion Dollar ‘Bad Software’ Crisis: India’s Connected Device Gap
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
The New Logic of Space Warfare
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Fragmented Still: Assessing a Year of the Greater Bengaluru Authority
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Reforming regulation: Debating cost-benefit analysis and the role of OIRA
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Hayat v. Diaz
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
New from Cato: Government Ownership and the Future of Free Enterprise
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
Financial Surveillance: The Ultimate Surveillance Black Hole?
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
Africa must prepare for AI-powered cyber threats at scale
tiny icon of issafrica  ISS Africa (Institute for Security Studies)
Repairing America’s signaling on Taiwan
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
'Title I for rich kids' and other predictions for the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Replace the intra-African trade share with a meaningful statistic about trade integration
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Five Things to Know About the Midterms
tiny icon of cfr  CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)
CO26217 | Territorial Control and Houthi Maritime Power
tiny icon of rsis  RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
People, Place, Principles: This Is America
tiny icon of heritage  Heritage Foundation
The Economic and Human Cost of the War on Iran: The Arab Countries Pay More
tiny icon of pcns  PCNS (Policy Center for the New South)
The Starlink Case: An Appraisal of Technology for Geopolitical Control
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
The Role of Beneficial Ownership Transparency in the Hard Power Era
tiny icon of rusi  RUSI
The U.S. and Korea Should Be Bold in Their Investments
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Allison Minor Joins CSIS Middle East Program as Senior Fellow
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
CSIS Names Chris Fall Vice President of the Economic Security and Technology Department
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Assessing the Impact of China-Russia Economic Coordination in Latin America and the Caribbean
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Diplomacy or Coercion?
tiny icon of csis  CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
AfD’s Strategic Worldview
tiny icon of idsa  IDSA (Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Criminal protection: illicit uses of South Africa’s private security industry
tiny icon of issafrica  ISS Africa (Institute for Security Studies)
Do Medicare Advantage plans still pay hospitals prices close to Traditional Medicare’s?
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Infinite Potential—Insights from the Societal Warfare Games: After-Action Report from a Sequence of Day After Artificial General Intelligence Exercises
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
How Bad Policy Delays Adulthood
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
Mongolian President Khurelsukh To Visit Germany
tiny icon of kas  Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Domestic Refining of Critical Minerals: India’s Next Petroleum Story
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Sanctioning Moscow, Making Exceptions: Trump’s Russian Diesel Deal
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Digital Sovereignty Outweighs Musk’s Convenience
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Who Holds the Off Switch? Starlink, Dependence, and India’s Satcom Policy
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Sovereignty by Design: What the Starlink Debate Gets Wrong
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
The Gendered Capability Gap in India’s AI Transition
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Is China dynamic or dysfunctional?
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
The Architecture of Money: A European Strategy for Tokenized Finance
tiny icon of ifri  Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales)
Beyond the school walls: How community partnerships strengthen learning ecosystems
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Can ‘working-class liberalism’ heal liberal democracy?
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Monday, 12 October 2026
David J. Bier’s blog post, “President Trump Cut Legal Immigrant Entries 2.7 Times More Than Illegal Entries,” is cited on WIBC’s Tony Katz and The Morning News
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
Doug Bandow discusses the inconsistency and confusion surrounding the Trump administration’s foreign policy on Al Jazeera English
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
Mustafa Akyol discusses his book, No Compulsion in Religion—No Exceptions, on NPR affiliate WGVU’s Common Threads podcast
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
David J. Bier’s blog post, “Trump Has Cut Legal Immigration More Than Illegal Immigration,” is cited on Spectrum News
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
Scott Lincicome’s X post, “Can America tariff America?”, was cited on CBS News 24/7’s The Takeout with Major Garrett
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
Mike Fox discusses ICE tactics in the Oscar Belgal shooting on The Lars Larson Show
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
The Domestic-Foreign Electronic Surveillance Nexus
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
South Africa need not wait for corruption convictions
tiny icon of issafrica  ISS Africa (Institute for Security Studies)
The two blind spots of megaproject appraisal
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
A divided southern flank faces Trump 2.0 and NATO 3.0
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
As AI leaders call for slowdown, children need a voice
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Bi-weekly text messages and calls to strengthen learning at home
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
What the Trump administration’s recent guidance on school discipline gets wrong
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Shaping global governance of AI agents
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Why U.S. Borrowing Costs Keep Climbing Despite Treasury’s Efforts
tiny icon of cfr  CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)
Access to Medical Care in California Workers’ Compensation: Recent Trends in Patient Access and Provider Participation
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
The Domestic-Foreign Electronic Surveillance Nexus
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
Indicators of Mental Health Literacy and Mental Health First Aid Skill Application in a Large Sample of U.S. Trainees
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Disparities in Virtual Outpatient Mental Health Care Utilization Among Commercially Insured Children and Adults, 2023-2025
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Implementing School-Associated Vaccination Events in Colorado Public Schools: A Statewide Survey of Nurses
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Sustainment of a Youth Substance Use Treatment Model Following Organization-Focused Versus State-Focused Federal Financing Strategies: A Mixed-Method Study
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Brazil’s elections, security and strategic autonomy
tiny icon of iiss  IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies)
Talk of Russian Regime Change Could Inspire a New European Peace Strategy
tiny icon of rusi  RUSI
Ahead of a presidential election, France first needs to help itself on debt
tiny icon of bruegel  Bruegel
Global AI Impact Commons Stories: Jacaranda Health
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Brazil’s Divided House Goes to a Runoff
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Climate Stress Reshapes Youth Migration in Ethiopia
tiny icon of diis  DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies)
Tremendous news: No one has been bought or sold
tiny icon of diis  DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies)
EU–Central Asia Critical Raw Materials: From Partnership to Supply-Chain Security
tiny icon of oiip  OIIP (Austrian Institute for International Affairs)
The Political Chaos and Prevailing Uncertainty in Pakistan
tiny icon of idsa  IDSA (Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
A Partnership Built on Security: Post-Brexit Rapprochement between Germany and the United Kingdom
tiny icon of ifri  Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales)
From Vision to Practice: How District Leaders Would Improve Civic Learning
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Recursive Self-Improvement and Automated AI Research and Development
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Differential Effects of US State Firearm Policies on Black and Non-Black Firearm Homicide and Suicide, 1981-2022
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
The Links Between Cannabis and Crime: Examining the Evidence from Recent Policy Experiments
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Buprenorphine Via Telehealth: Closing the Gap for Pregnant and Postpartum Women With Opioid Use Disorder
tiny icon of rand  RAND Corporation
Green Steel and the Future of the Japan–Australia Resource Partnership
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Orbits, Oligarchs and the Republic
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
AI and the False Promise of Intelligence Analysis
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Elon Musk’s Starlink Must Go the Huawei Way
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
India’s Satellite Imperative: Starlink and the Terms of Entry
tiny icon of orf  ORF (Observer Research Foundation)
Sunday, 11 October 2026
David J. Bier’s blog post, “5% of People Detained By ICE Have Violent Convictions, 73% No Convictions,” is cited on Jubilee’s Surrounded episode, “1 Liberal vs 20 MAGA (ft. The Split’s David Mauricio)”
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
What’s the Renminbi Got to Do With it?
tiny icon of cfr  CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)
Katherine Thompson discusses the energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia on NewsNation Live
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
The El Cato Podcast featured an interview with policy analyst Juan Londoño on Radio Centro 101, discussing artificial intelligence and frontier AI models
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
Jon Hoffman discusses the Houthi attack on the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on FNC’s Fox News Live
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
Adam N. Michel’s blog post, “Who Will Pay for Democratic Socialism’s $200 Trillion Cost?,” is cited on WOKV’s The Hidden Wealth Solution
tiny icon of cato  Cato Institute
October 2026 update to TIGER: A modest recovery built on shaky foundations
tiny icon of brookings  Brookings
Advancing Green Industrialisation in Egypt
tiny icon of saiia  SAIIA (South African Institute of International Affairs)
Expanding China’s Role in Africa’s Electricity Integration
tiny icon of saiia  SAIIA (South African Institute of International Affairs)
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