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Articles for August 12, 2020 - August 18, 2020
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Book Chat: U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century
Wilson Center
Nationalist Narratives in North and South Korea: 75 Years After Liberation
Wilson Center
Brazilian Amazon Drained of Millions of Wild Animals by Criminal Networks
Wilson Center
Environmental Security and the Global Fragility Act
Wilson Center
How States Can Rev Up Their Recoveries Through Upskilling, by National Skills Coalition
Wilson Center
Situation in Mali
Wilson Center
Enduring Problems Showcase the Need to Update U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation
Wilson Center
Impact of Covid-19 in Central Sahel: Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso
PCNS
(Policy Center for the New South)
The West's Role in Belarus
RAND Corporation
Why Israel-UAE Deal Doesn't Merit the Hype
RAND Corporation
Determining Staffing Needs for Administrative, Professional, and Technical Workers in the U.S. Secret Service: A User Guide for Workforce Staffing Models
RAND Corporation
Determining Staffing Needs for Administrative, Professional, and Technical Workers in the U.S. Secret Service: Methods and Lessons Learned
RAND Corporation
The Impact of Women in Political Power, With Rachel B. Vogelstein
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia
Lowy Institute
Engaging Learning Spaces Are Important, Even During a Pandemic
RAND Corporation
Moving on from Telehealth-by-Desperation: What Will Make Telehealth Stick
RAND Corporation
Summer Reading List for Congress
RAND Corporation
Some Great Picks Trump Should Consider for Supreme Court
Heritage Foundation
How the U.S. Government Should Respond to the Protests in Belarus
Heritage Foundation
The W93/Mk7 Program: Ensuring the Future of U.S. Nuclear Deterrence
Heritage Foundation
It’s Time to Ban Balance Billing
Heritage Foundation
Covert Foreign Money: Financial Loopholes Exploited by Authoritarians to Fund Political Interference in Democracies
German Marshall Fund
The Evening: French Resurgence, Hezbollah Implicated, Woodstock and More
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff on post-COVID Security Challenges
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Could the Pandemic Response be a Starting Point for a More Engaged Security Strategy in the Northern Triangle?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Toward Urban Spaces: Learning from Ethiopia’s Recent Transport and City Beautification Initiatives
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Israel and UAE: From Tacit Cooperation to Full Diplomatic Ties
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Peaceful use of nuclear energy in Africa
SAIIA
(South African Institute of International Affairs)
The Origins of Boko Haram, and Why the War on Terror Matters
NUPI
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
Chad’s Pivotal Role in the Regional Crisis
NUPI
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
The “Faceless Evildoers” of Cabo Delgado: an Islamist Insurgency in Mozambique?
NUPI
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
Il flusso migratorio sul continente africano
NUPI
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
Climate-Resilient Trade and Production: The Transboundary Effects of Climate Change and Their Implications for EU Member States
CIDOB
(Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
Political Polarization in South and Southeast Asia: Old Divisions, New Dangers
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Cracks in Belarus’s Regime Are Multiplying
DGAP
(German Council on Foreign Relations)
Five reasons to explore Mars
Brookings
The Perfect 36: Tennessee delivers suffrage for women
Brookings
The middle class time squeeze
Brookings
Want herd immunity? Pay people to take the vaccine
Brookings
Neighbourhood first responder: India’s humanitarian assistance and disaster relief
Brookings
Unpredictable work hours and volatile incomes are long-term risks for American workers
Brookings
Poppy, eradication, and alternative livelihoods in Mexico
Brookings
Women’s suffrage and the democratic peace
Brookings
Peace, Conflict, and COVID-19
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Pakistan races to avoid financial watchdog blacklist
Atlantic Council
Cultural Cradle of Azerbaijan’s Karabakh Region Faces Persistent Provocations
AIR Center
Monday, 17 August 2020
100th Anniversary of 19th Amendment: "Largest Expansion of Democracy in U.S. History"
Wilson Center
Betrayal in Berlin: The Riddle of the “Walter Affair”
Wilson Center
Disinformation Should Be the Final Straw in the Targeting of Medical Facilities
Wilson Center
Unlikely Heroes: We Neglect Water and Sanitation Service Providers at Our Own Peril
Wilson Center
Games Round Up: Quantum Computing
Wilson Center
Has Congress Captured Russia Policy?
RAND Corporation
In North Korea, The U.S. Could Take the Lead
RAND Corporation
Russia's Su-57 Heavy Fighter Bomber: Is It Really a Fifth-Generation Aircraft?
RAND Corporation
Homicide Process Mapping: A Guide for Solving More Crimes
RAND Corporation
What Unemployment Statistics Obscure About Temporary Layoffs
RAND Corporation
Could 2020 Spawn '70s-Style Radicals and Violence?
RAND Corporation
What’s Behind the New Israel-UAE Peace Deal?
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Are Gulf Arab States Aligning Toward Israel?
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Cyber Doctrines and the Risk of Nuclear Crisis Instability. Part 1: Issues with U.S. Cyber Strategy
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Israel-UAE Agreement Shows Trump’s Middle East Policy Succeeding
Heritage Foundation
How the WHO Can Earn Back U.S. Support
Heritage Foundation
U.S. Must Integrate Eastern Partnership Countries Into the Three Seas Initiative
Heritage Foundation
China, Open-Source Information, and Transparency
Heritage Foundation
Trump Considers a Cut in the Capital Gains Tax
Heritage Foundation
End Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Families
Heritage Foundation
Oklahoma Homeless Students Benefit From Private School Scholarships
Heritage Foundation
America Must Counter China’s “Military-Civil Union”
Heritage Foundation
Here’s How Your Children Are Getting Indoctrinated by Left
Heritage Foundation
The EU Is Hoist with Its Own Data-Protection Petard
German Marshall Fund
The Evening: UNC Goes Remote, Arctic Refuge Open, Galactic and More
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Is the Ratio of Investment between Research and Development to Production in Major Defense Acquisition Programs Experiencing Fundamental Change?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Lebanon’s Political Bosses Are the Real Problem
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Dismissing Cyber Catastrophe
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Trade Controls Are a Limited Tool of Foreign Policy
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
CO20158 | ASEAN as Pivotal Actor: Balancing Centrality and the Indo-Pacific
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
The Nordic Region: Can Russia 'Divide and Rule'?
DIIS
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
Embrace IR Anxieties (or, Morgenthau’s Approach to Power, and the Challenge of Combining the Three Domains of IR Theorizing)
DIIS
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
Power in Communitarian Evolution
DIIS
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
The Geopolitical Implications of China's Presence in the MENA Region
DIIS
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
Life skills for adolescent girls in the COVID-19 pandemic
Brookings
How to boost health insurance enrollment: Three practical steps that merit bipartisan support
Brookings
The Politics of Culture in Times of Rapprochement: European Cultural and Academic Exchange with Iran (2015-16)
Brookings
Hard road back to power for Germany's Social Democrats
Brookings
Democracy after coronavirus: Five challenges for the 2020s
Brookings
Back to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Balancing students’ right to education against public health
Brookings
Avoiding a new Cold War between the US and China
Brookings
Preparing the Global Counterterrorism Forum for the next decade
Brookings
Trump and the rise of sadistic diplomacy
Brookings
الانزلاق نحو المجهول: ما مصير لبنان بعد الآن؟
Brookings
Staring into the Abyss: Where does Lebanon go from here?
Brookings
Kasich can't help Biden win over Republicans but Trump can
Brookings
Death of a Statesman
Atlantic Council
Hillary Clinton: The work awaiting the next US president will be ‘overwhelming’
Atlantic Council
Primer on hypersonic weapons in the Indo-Pacific region
Atlantic Council
What’s at stake for energy in the 2020 election: An update
Atlantic Council
Sunday, 16 August 2020
Israel’s Aid to Lebanon "Transcends Conflict"
Heritage Foundation
What’s Next After Trump Administration Brokers Israel-UAE Peace Pact
Heritage Foundation
Secretary Mike Pompeo’s Ringing Call to Secure Human Rights and Liberty
Heritage Foundation
Saturday, 15 August 2020
An Explosion in Lebanon - The Port and Politics
Wilson Center
The Link Between Workplace Diversity and the Gender Pay Gap
RAND Corporation
The Biden factor in the UAE-Israel deal
Brookings
Friday, 14 August 2020
Coronavirus Aid Sees Brazil’s Poverty Rates Drop to Lowest Level Since 2004
Wilson Center
Chile’s Blind Spot
Wilson Center
Changes Underlying the Conflict Between Lukashenko and Belarusians
Wilson Center
AfPak File: The ISIS Factor In The Afghanistan Peace Process
Wilson Center
"Disinformation’s Threat to Democracy"
Wilson Center
Data Dive with Nik Nanos: How the pandemic has changed our views on climate change
Wilson Center
Trauma and Triumph: US-China Relations and Memories of the War in the Pacific
Wilson Center
The Promise and Perils of Historical Analogy: What the Pacific War Can, and Cannot, Tell Us About Asia Today
Wilson Center
Reevaluating Japan's Economic Vision and Its Post-War Legacy
Wilson Center
The Pacific War's Lessons for the Continued Strategic Importance of Oceania
Wilson Center
The Legacy of the Philippine Struggle for Independence in 1945
Wilson Center
Southeast Asia's Pacific War
Wilson Center
The Legacy of 1945 for Equality and Women's Leadership in Asia
Wilson Center
World War II in the Pacific and the Impact on the US Navy
Wilson Center
The Three Enduring Legacies of the Pacific War in East Asia
Wilson Center
Clash of Memories and Clash of Dreams: The Legacy of the Pacific War and the Future of the East Asian Peace
Wilson Center
75 Years On: How Lessons from the Pacific Theater Impact American Foreign Policy Today
Wilson Center
The Evolution of Technology and Military Strategy in Asia
Wilson Center
Nuclear History and the Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Wilson Center
Japan and the Postwar Order
Wilson Center
The Past and Future of American Power in Asia
Wilson Center
Worldwide Women's Suffrage Timeline
Wilson Center
Which Suffragist Are You?
Wilson Center
U.S. Women's Suffrage Timeline
Wilson Center
News Roundup: Surprise UAE-Israel Peace Shakes up U.S. and Regional Media
Wilson Center
Expert Insights: Using Binding Pay Transparency Measures to Encourage Equal Pay for Equal Work
RAND Corporation
Why Militaries Should Play Games with Each Other
RAND Corporation
In conversation: Michael Fullilove and Richard McGregor discuss Kamala Harris
Lowy Institute
Beirut Explosion Accelerates Lebanon’s Descent into a Failed State
Heritage Foundation
3 Reasons the U.S. Should Prioritize Human Rights With China
Heritage Foundation
5 Lessons From the Korean War
Heritage Foundation
States Have an Obligation to Offer Parents School Choice During Pandemic Closure
Heritage Foundation
Tick Tock for TikTok
Heritage Foundation
Insurgency Marks New Milestone in Coastal Attack in Northern Mozambique
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Filled to the Brim: The Importance of Flexible and Innovative Storage in Commodities Markets
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The Normalization of UAE-Israel Relations
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency: New and Improved?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Covid-19 Response Update: August 7-August 14
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Impact of Embargo on Defence Imports
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Land Title Insurance in India: Lessons from U.S. Regulatory Approaches
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Belarus’s Moment of Truth
DGAP
(German Council on Foreign Relations)
Policies to broaden participation in the innovation process
Brookings
The evolution of the US vice president
Brookings
Election 2020: A once-in-a-century, massive turnout?
Brookings
Charts of the Week: Three ways of looking at race and inequality in America
Brookings
Sustainable development finance proposals for the global COVID-19 response
Brookings
The Sun Belt’s COVID-19 surge stalls economic recovery in the region
Brookings
The happy classroom: Insights from our study of schools in Delhi, India
Brookings
Development of student and teacher measures of Happiness Curriculum factors
Brookings
COVID-19 Homeschooling Could Be Transformative For Black Children
Brookings
Five things the Democratic Party needs to do in its convention this week
Brookings
‘The Unsolid’ Pro-Kremlin Narratives in Slovak Cultural and Educational Institutions
RUSI
The Nexus Between Crime and Violent Extremism in Kenya: A Case Study of Two Prison Complexes
RUSI
[Global NK Commentary] North Korea’s Building of a Civilized Socialist Country
East Asia Institute
[Global NK Commentary] North Korea’s Building of a Civilized Socialist Country
East Asia Institute
Amid Hong Kong sanctions, Washington takes aim at US-listed Chinese companies
Atlantic Council
Beyond 5G, Central Europe will be key to countering Chinese technological influence
Atlantic Council
14 August: The Week in Australian Foreign Policy
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
The Constitutionalisation of Religious Harmony in Singapore
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
The Treaty of Sevres and immigration of non-Armenians: Top two issues in Armenia this week and their implications for its conflict with Azerbaijan
AIR Center
Azerbaijan, Turkey Hold Large-Scale Military Drills Amidst Escalation of Tensions With Armenia
AIR Center
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Sanctions Against Russia: Rethinking the West’s Approach
Wilson Center
CENTCOM: The War with ISIS in 2020
Wilson Center
Nine Dragons Rule the Waters: Closing the Loop on China’s Water Pollution (Report Launch)
Wilson Center
Coronavirus Gold Rush? Corruption Spreads in a Pandemic
Wilson Center
Privacy's Perfect Storm: Digital Policy for Post-Pandemic Times
Wilson Center
The Gothic Text
Wilson Center
Who Bears the Cost of a WeChat Ban?
Wilson Center
Germany’s geopolitical role in an age of great power rivalries, Part 3
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Missing in Japan's Deterrence Debate
RAND Corporation
What to Watch to Understand the Sino-Iranian Relationship
RAND Corporation
Pompeo’s European Tour, Democrats’ Virtual National Convention, and More
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
The Evolution of Human Trafficking During the COVID-19 Pandemic
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
How to Stop Targeted Violence in U.S. Cities
Heritage Foundation
Nine Reasons Congress Should Nix the Air Force’s F-15EX Purchase
Heritage Foundation
China Uses HHS Secretary Azar’s Taiwan Trip As Opportunity to Test U.S.
Heritage Foundation
Understanding Turkey’s Coercive Diplomacy
German Marshall Fund
The Evening: Israel UAE Formalize Ties, Senate Adjourned, Unbroken Chain and More
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Strengthening the CCP’s “Ideological Work”
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Building Trust to Ensure Effective and Ethical Contact Tracing in Communities of Color
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Chinese Power Projection Capabilities in the South China Sea
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
CO20157 | BRI and Indo-Pacific: Geopolitics of Multilateralism?
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Atma Nirbhar through Arms Import Ban
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Shock Mobility
DIIS
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
Racial economic inequality amid the COVID-19 crisis
Brookings
The COVID-19 public health and economic crises leave vulnerable populations exposed
Brookings
The pandemic tips the balance between mosque and state
Brookings
From the Watts Rebellion to George Floyd, South Los Angeles Charts a New Path Toward Racial Justice
Brookings
Class Notes: Parenthood wage gaps, WFH benefits, and more
Brookings
What to expect from Biden-Harris on tech policy, platform regulation, and China
Brookings
Rightsizing the Afghanistan mission
Brookings
August 1864 vs. August 2020: A contrast in leadership
Brookings
Black households & COVID-19: Impediments to economic security
Brookings
Not Far Enough: Why the law is only the first benchmark to true equality
Brookings
Around-the-halls: Experts analyze the normalization of Israel-UAE ties
Brookings
Trust and coercion in times of emergency: COVID-19 and structures of authority in North Africa
SIPRI
(Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
To the Brink With China
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Russia uses US data policy shortfalls to justify campaign against internet freedom
Atlantic Council
Macron has the power to change the EU’s Hezbollah policy
Atlantic Council
Will US-brokered agreement between UAE and Israel be a regional gamechanger?
Atlantic Council
A rare strategic victory—for everyone except Iran
Atlantic Council
Holding the Government to Account: Climate Change and the Legacy of Government Policy
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
The Taiwan Frontier and the Chinese Dominance for the Second Island Chain
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
Future of DHS Project: Key findings and recommendations
Atlantic Council
The Maduro Regime’s Illicit Activities: A Threat to Democracy in Venezuela and Security in Latin America
Atlantic Council
Evolving news media landscapes in India and Pakistan: Implications for regional peace and stability
Atlantic Council
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
Moroccan Youth Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Political Will and Unfinished Business
Wilson Center
Black Lives Matter and the Berlin Wall
Wilson Center
The Lost Youth of Lebanon
Wilson Center
Lebanon’s Youth Lead without Fear
Wilson Center
Heroic Entrepreneurship and the Pathology of Privilege
Wilson Center
A Story from Yemen: A Young Girl's Fight Against Child Marriage
Wilson Center
Elections in Belarus
Wilson Center
Russia Announces COVID-19 Vaccine
Wilson Center
The Belarus Election and its Aftermath | An Expert Analysis
Wilson Center
Understanding How American Workers Progress to Higher-Wage Jobs, By McKinsey & Company
Wilson Center
Debt on the Nile? Sharing Rivers on the African Continent
Wilson Center
El Voto Femenino
Wilson Center
EPP Party Barometer August 2020
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
From Awareness to Action: Accounting for Infrastructure Interdependencies in Disaster Response and Recovery Planning
RAND Corporation
Elevating Equity in Los Angeles Juvenile and Criminal Justice Reform
RAND Corporation
Transforming social care provision: first steps towards sustained innovation
RAND Corporation
We Are What We Eat: Understanding Food Consumption for Healthier and More Sustainable Diets
RAND Corporation
Who Will Benefit from a Successful Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine?
RAND Corporation
Hong Kong is not dead, just entering a new phase of struggle
Lowy Institute
Submission to the UK Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry into the contribution of the FCO to the Integrated Review of UK foreign policy strategy
Lowy Institute
COVIDcast: Salvaging the liberal international order
Lowy Institute
Voter Fraud More Likely to Impact Election Than Foreign Meddling
Heritage Foundation
Secretary Pompeo’s Trip: Opportunity to Build on Renewed Ties to Central Europe
Heritage Foundation
Privatization Should Be on the Table if It Will Fix Mail’s Structural Problems
Heritage Foundation
Here Are 10 Things You Should Know About Sending Your Kids to School
Heritage Foundation
Modernizing IDEA to Meet Student Needs and Support Integrated Employment
Heritage Foundation
Why Reagan’s Call to Conservatism Needs to Be Heard Again Today
Heritage Foundation
The Evening: Covid Data Warning, Deficit Tripled, Dire Wolf and More
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Chinese Company Listings on U.S. Exchanges: The Beginning of the End?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Agriculture under Pressure: Implications for Agricultural Development in U.S. Foreign Assistance
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Why Africa Matters to Providence
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Burnt by the Digital Sun
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
CO20156 | Intelligence Operations: Risks Faced by Academia
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Framing Russia's Mediterranean Return: Stages, Roots and Logics
IAI
(Istituto Affari Internazionali)
Climate and Security in the Indo-Asia Pacific
Clingendael
When land comes in the way: India’s connectivity infrastructure in Nepal
Brookings
A constitutional crisis in the works
Brookings
The Fed’s review of its monetary policy strategy—and what Brookings’ scholars have to say about it
Brookings
Revitalizing American diplomacy: Why mediation support should be part of the foreign policy rebuild
Brookings
Global imbalances, coronavirus, and safe assets
Brookings
Vehicle size choice and automobile externalities: A dynamic analysis
Brookings
The perils and promise of America’s legacy cities in the pandemic era
Brookings
This is not your grandfather’s vice presidency
Brookings
Online resources from the Brookings Institution for teachers and students
Brookings
North Korea and COVID-19
Brookings
What does VP pick Kamala Harris bring to the Democratic ticket?
Brookings
Hutchins Roundup: Student debt, consumer spending, and more
Brookings
Five ways to save multilateralism from collapsing
JIIA
(Japan Institute of International Affairs)
[Research Reports] New Dynamics over the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) and Changing Political Systems in the Horn of Africa Region
JIIA
(Japan Institute of International Affairs)
The PLA’s Mask Diplomacy
IISS
(International Institute for Strategic Studies)
What got you here won’t get you there: To succeed in Cold War II, America needs to avoid the wrong lessons from Cold War I
Atlantic Council
Nepal-India Border Dispute: Is India Craving War?
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
Dyason House Podcast: Disaster Response and Forensic Pathology
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
Book Review: India's Pursuit of Energy Security
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
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86.5
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