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Tuesday, 25 August 2026
Ahead of the Deal: How the United States Can Build an Energy Project Pipeline in Emerging Markets
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Advancing Gender-Responsive Just Transitions in India’s Coal Belt
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
From Port to Market: Strengthening South Africa’s Hinterland Connectivity
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The Europe Force Posture Review and the Transition to NATO 3.0
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
How Quickly Can the DOD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
From the Petrodollar to the Tokendollar: Economic Statecraft in the AI Era
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Data on a Beam of Light: Li-Fi and India’s Military Communications
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
The SNAP state cost-shift policy leaves the program’s existence to chance
Brookings
The loss of the 2021 expanded Child Tax Credit deepened economic pessimism
Brookings
Evaluating the Case for Solar Panel Recycling Mandates in the United States
RAND Corporation
Emergency Management Research: Hard to Find, Even More Difficult to Organize
RAND Corporation
Federal Revenue When AI Replaces Labor: An Examination of Economic Scenarios with Highly Capable Artificial Intelligence
RAND Corporation
Achieving AI Model Weight Security Level 3 (SL3)
RAND Corporation
Why NATO and the Transatlantic Bond Will Outlast Trump
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Did the 2022 energy inflation surge dent European Central Bank and Fed credibility? Evidence across horizons
Bruegel
Unlocking SME Financing for BRICS Economies: Insights from Case Studies
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
BRICS THINK TANKS COUNCIL RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE LEADERS AT THE XVIII BRICS SUMMIT 2026
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The Taliban Takeover: Consolidation, Repression and the New Regional Equation
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Can Peru's New Political Order Deliver Stability?
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The Cloud Runs on Water
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Monday, 24 August 2026
The Iran War at Six Months: Energy, Markets, and National Security
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Hichilema wins a stronger mandate, but Zambia’s democratic test isn’t over
ISS Africa
(Institute for Security Studies)
What is the value of a ‘Europeanized NATO’ for the United States?
Brookings
How can a ‘Europeanized NATO’ defend Europe with reduced American support?
Brookings
The 1963 State Department Cable Authorizing the Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
The #EndSARS Generation Comes of Age
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
The Cyclospora Outbreak Was a Warning: Q&A with Saskia Popescu
RAND Corporation
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)
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CEIP
94.7
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