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Articles for August 18, 2021 - August 24, 2021
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Leveraging the Pandemic to Boost Gender Parity in South Korea and Japan
Wilson Center
Canusa Street Episode 8: Oh Cannabis!
Wilson Center
The Fall of Kabul and the Taliban 2.0
PCNS
(Policy Center for the New South)
Regional Market Integration, Agricultural Transformation, and Poverty Reduction:A review of experiences in selected cases of regional market integration
PCNS
(Policy Center for the New South)
The Bright Appeal of New Tech May Overshadow Practical Business
RAND Corporation
Three Essays on the Broader Effects of the Opioid Crisis
RAND Corporation
Ethiopia’s Civil War, With Michelle Gavin
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Nigeria's President Buhari Argues "Africa's Fight Against Terror is the World's Fight"
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
How Biden’s China doctrine can swing the pendulum back
Lowy Institute
New man in Tehran aims for supreme power
Lowy Institute
This is America’s new foreign policy on show
Lowy Institute
The Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame: Rulebook
RAND Corporation
A Toolkit for a Score-Based Balance Metric for the Synthetic Control Method: A Tutorial for the synth_asmd STATA Program
RAND Corporation
The Latest Alleged Election Fraud in California May Have Overturned an Election
Heritage Foundation
Looking back at the events that defined three decades of Ukrainian independence
Atlantic Council
The case for a financial digital asset framework for cryptocurrencies
Atlantic Council
Iran’s new face to the world—Hossein Amir-Abdollahian—is no Zarif
Atlantic Council
Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster Shows He’s More Bystander Than World Leader
Heritage Foundation
Afghans Who Risked Lives Helping U.S. Deserve Best Efforts To Ensure Safety
Heritage Foundation
Administrative Bloat at Universities Raises Costs Without Helping Students
Heritage Foundation
Community Gardens: A “Fourth Basket” in Singapore’s Food Story?
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
IP21003 | Malaysia’s New Government: Same But Different
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
IP21002 | Creating Synergies between the ADMM and Sub-regional Arrangements
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Feminism and American Restlessness
Heritage Foundation
Engagement with False Content Producers Plummeted on Twitter and Facebook
German Marshall Fund
The Global Energy Transition
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Taliban Takeover: Humanitarian Implications and Recommendations for the United States
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Fiat Digital Currency, Information, and Power
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
What Does the Taliban Takeover Mean for the Biden Administration’s Human Rights Agenda?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
What Do CPTPP Member Country Businesses Think about the CPTPP?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Act Now to Save and Learn the Lessons of the Afghan War
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
CO21128 | German Warship in Asia: Berlin’s Indo-Pacific Strategy?
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
What Beijing’s Expanding Digital Silk Road Means to India?
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order
Brookings
Monitoring and projecting global hunger: Are we on track?
Brookings
Governments must help manage the risks of fintech
Brookings
Economic repercussions of the COVID-induced tourism collapse in the euro area
Brookings
Pakistan’s problematic victory in Afghanistan
Brookings
How veterans can protect American democracy
Brookings
Teacher assistants are needed—now more than ever
Brookings
Money can be the milk of Taliban moderation
Brookings
The good enough doctrine: Learning to live with terrorism
Brookings
The center cannot hold: Will a divided world survive common threats?
Brookings
GVC Linkage of Materials, Parts, and Equipment Industries in China, Japan and Korea
KIEP
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)
[ADRN Issue Briefing] An Emergence of Youth Participation in Malaysian Politics
East Asia Institute
Could China become the Taliban’s new benefactor?
Atlantic Council
FAST THINKING: A sanctioned Taliban now rules Afghanistan’s multibillion-dollar economy. How do we deal with that?
Atlantic Council
The neglected victim of the Karabakh war
AIR Center
Monday, 23 August 2021
What Next for U.S. Engagement on Cambodia’s Protected Forests?
Wilson Center
SOUTHCOM Gets its First Female Commander
Wilson Center
The British Response to the Fall of the Afghan Government
Wilson Center
China Is Organizing the VR Industry. The United States Could Do the Same
RAND Corporation
Biden's Indo-Pacific Policy Blueprint Emerges
RAND Corporation
Nigeria Security Tracker Weekly Update: August 14–20
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Iraq Is the Middle East’s New Power Broker
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
School Districts Have Expanded Their Nonacademic Services for 2021–2022, While Academic Offerings Remain Much the Same: Selected Findings from the Third American School District Panel Survey
RAND Corporation
5G supply market trends
RAND Corporation
Oversight of the Voting Rights Act: Potential Legislative Reforms
Heritage Foundation
COVID-19 lockdown highlights policies to reduce pollution in Saudi Arabia
Atlantic Council
IMF delivers fiscal firepower
Atlantic Council
Is Ukraine’s split from Russia now irreversible?
Atlantic Council
Biden can reassert US leadership by backing Ukraine against Russia
Atlantic Council
My family was part of the US evacuation of Kurds in 1996. The US must do the same for Afghans.
Atlantic Council
Event recap: “On the frontline: Protecting Afghanistan’s human rights defenders”
Atlantic Council
UKRAINE AT 30: What is independent Ukraine’s greatest achievement?
Atlantic Council
An Interim Capability for Countering Chinese Missile Attacks on Guam
Heritage Foundation
It’s Time To Update and Improve the Annual Medicare Trustees’ Report
Heritage Foundation
The Taliban’s Return to Power Is a Scathing Illustration of the Post-American World that Is Taking Shape
German Marshall Fund
Key Square Part II: A Discussion on Taiwan with Jim Moriarty
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Don’t Blink
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Moving past Taiwan’s Zero-Tolerance Approach
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
CO21127 | Cohesion as a Choice: Regardless of Faith and Identity
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
De-/Fencing Grasslands
DIIS
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
The Engine Room: Rebooting Germany’s Foreign Policy Architecture
DGAP
(German Council on Foreign Relations)
Middle East and North Africa COVID-19 Policy Response Project
Brookings
How will Biden’s broadband infrastructure plan address rural poverty while closing the digital divide? | The TechTank Podcast
Brookings
September 11 in the White House
Brookings
Social protection, not just legal protection: Migrant laborers in the Gulf
Brookings
The surprisingly inexpensive cost of state-driven emission control strategies
Brookings
الحماية الاجتماعية ضرورة للعمّال الوافدين في الخليج وليس الحماية القانونية فحسب
Brookings
Has Japan’s policy toward the Taiwan Strait changed?
Brookings
杜大伟、黄益平、姚洋：中国的全球影响力与内部挑战
Brookings
What will move Nigerians to shift opinions and demand fuel sector reform?
Brookings
Seven major changes in China's finalized Personal Information Protection Law
Brookings
How has education technology impacted student learning in India during COVID-19?
Brookings
Ed tech and educational opportunity during the COVID-19 school closures
Brookings
The changing landscape for women under Taliban rule
Brookings
Americans never understood Afghanistan like the Taliban did
Brookings
The coalitions that could shape Germany's future
Brookings
Can the Biden presidency survive the impact of Afghanistan?
Brookings
The coming storm for a post-Merkel EU
Atlantic Council
They aren’t listed, but make no mistake: The UN has sanctions on the Taliban
Atlantic Council
David Petraeus: ‘The Taliban are about to be acquainted with a very harsh reality—that they are broke’
Atlantic Council
Sunday, 22 August 2021
Will South Africa’s ANC Get the Message?
Heritage Foundation
Afghanistan threatens Biden’s shot at being a historic foreign-policy leader
Atlantic Council
The Steep Cost of Mishandling Our Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Heritage Foundation
American Express Wages a Woke War on Itself
Heritage Foundation
Saturday, 21 August 2021
Historic Lynchings and Present-Day Voting: What's the Connection?
RAND Corporation
How modern Ukraine was made on Maidan
Atlantic Council
Blame Joe Biden for the Afghanistan Disaster. No One Else.
Heritage Foundation
Call Afghanistan What It Is: The Worst Hostage Crisis in American History
Heritage Foundation
Joe Biden Has Been a Monumental Disaster
Heritage Foundation
Taliban Fighters Now Well-Equipped for Decades
Heritage Foundation
Africa in the news: Zambian election, impacts of the Taliban’s Afghanistan takeover, and health updates
Brookings
Friday, 20 August 2021
Top 10 Traits of a Good Congressional Staffer
Wilson Center
Lessons for President Hichilema – Can He Learn from Lungu’s Mistakes?
Wilson Center
Earl Anthony Wayne on the Future of Afghanistan
Wilson Center
Water and (in-)Security in Afghanistan as the Taliban Take Over
Wilson Center
Wilson Memo: The Developing Relationship Between China & Africa
Wilson Center
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: Title VIII Short Term Grant and George F. Kennan Grant Due September 30
Wilson Center
5G Supply Market Trends: Executive Summary and Final Report
RAND Corporation
Strategic Airlift in Africa: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE) and Member Nations
RAND Corporation
Congress Should Reject Spending Bills That Allow Pro-Abortion Policies
Heritage Foundation
Iran spent years preparing for a Taliban victory. It may still get stung.
Atlantic Council
Four scenarios of Afghanistan under the Taliban
Atlantic Council
What is the key to national prosperity?
Atlantic Council
De-risking and transforming institutional capital for impact in Africa: A conversation with Admassu Tadesse and Morten Elkjær
Atlantic Council
Afghanistan’s media landscape under the Taliban
Atlantic Council
Biden’s Afghanistan Exit Ignores Lessons From Iraq
Heritage Foundation
Lessons From a Failed Stealth Jet Can Guide Naval Aviation’s Future
Heritage Foundation
Does China Want War?
Heritage Foundation
Curriculum, COVID, and Choice
Heritage Foundation
IP21001 | America, ASEAN and the Question of ASEAN’s Centrality
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Lessons for Africa in Chinese SOE Governance
SAIIA
(South African Institute of International Affairs)
Immediate Steps to Respond to the Emergency in Afghanistan
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
PEPFAR’s Existential Moment
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
CO21126 | Price Of Political Will: The Fall of Two Regimes
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Investment in resilient food systems in the most vulnerable and fragile regions is critical
NUPI
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
The Taliban back in power: an assessment of al-Qaeda and IS two decades after 9/11
DIIS
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
Taliban dilemmas
CIDOB
(Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
The Taliban takes Afghanistan
Brookings
After Afghanistan, where next? Biden must show resoluteness
Brookings
Four takeaways on public space investment for placemakers
Brookings
The societal benefits of postsecondary prison education
Brookings
Figure of the week: Potential for youth and female employment in industries without smokestacks
Brookings
A proposal for long-term COVID-19 control
Brookings
The COVID boom we could do without
Brookings
Social media: A tool for peace or conflict?
SIPRI
(Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
Will digital money belong to democrats or despots?
Atlantic Council
FAST THINKING: Will the Kabul airlift succeed?
Atlantic Council
Afghan Youth Fight For Their Future
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
The Fall of Afghanistan: Blame Their Leadership
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
20 August: The Week in Australian Foreign Affairs
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
Armament, Militarization Of Society And Consistent Provocations: Is Another Tumultuous Autumn On Horizon For Armenia And Azerbaijan? – OpEd
AIR Center
Thursday, 19 August 2021
A New Dawn for Zambia – But Will it Last?
Wilson Center
Don’t Bury Me in Trash — From Recycle to Reduce in West Papua: Q&A with Misool Foundation’s Virly Yuriken
Wilson Center
Aligning Roles and Missions for Future Multidomain Warfare
RAND Corporation
Nigerian Press Freedom in Grave Danger
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
ISIS is defeated. What becomes of the ‘Cubs of the Caliphate’ in Iraq?
Atlantic Council
Ukraine shines a spotlight on Putin’s Crimean crime
Atlantic Council
Making the most of Ukraine’s tech talent
Atlantic Council
A Court Victory in Texas Against Obamacare’s Transgender Mandate
Heritage Foundation
Senate Democrat Pressures Biden Administration to Soften Iran Policy
Heritage Foundation
Biden’s 5 Mistruths on Afghanistan
Heritage Foundation
The World Is Turning Its Back on North Korean Refugees
Heritage Foundation
How Will Biden Handle His Next 3 Afghan Crises?
Heritage Foundation
Beijing’s Bomb Buildup-Continues as Third New ICBM Field Uncovered
Heritage Foundation
If Congress Wants to Invest in Infrastructure, It Should Focus on Defense
Heritage Foundation
Anomalous Health Incidents: The Havana Syndrome
Heritage Foundation
Earmarks, a Favorite Tool of Central Planners, Are Making a Comeback
Heritage Foundation
Remembering and Appreciating Donald Kagan, Yale Professor, Scholar, and Mentor
Heritage Foundation
Broader and Deeper: Transatlantic Responsibilities in the 21st Century
German Marshall Fund
Drilling Down on Treasury's New Fossil Fuel Energy Guidance for Multilateral Development Banks
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
New Imagery Shows No Crowds inside Kabul’s Airport
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
CO21125 | Maritime Centre in Batam: The Training Newcomer
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Public Procurement Framework in India
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
The BRICS’ lagging vaccine diplomacy
SAIIA
(South African Institute of International Affairs)
Exploring avenues in the EU’s rule of law crisis
Clingendael
A healthy reform to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Updating the Thrifty Food Plan
Brookings
Hutchins Roundup: Climate change, diverse policy committees, and more
Brookings
Vaccine hesitancy in nursing homes isn’t all politics
Brookings
Does West Africa need a single currency?
Brookings
Markets don’t reward sustainable borrowers. Here’s a solution.
Brookings
Expanding Title I could eliminate K-12 spending gaps—if the funds are well targeted
Brookings
Libya’s peace process: What’s at stake for the Maghreb, 10 years after Gadhafi’s overthrow
Brookings
The legacy of 9/11
Brookings
Mainstreaming the outcomes mindset of results-based financing
Brookings
Is the BBI ruling a sign of judicial independence in Kenya?
Brookings
Is Kabul airport the next Dien Bien Phu?
Atlantic Council
A strategic assessment from India: Kabul’s chaos makes Pakistan look more dangerous
Atlantic Council
What Washington owes the American people after its Afghanistan failure
Atlantic Council
FAST THINKING: Was the war worth it? Afghanistan’s former ambassador to the US, Roya Rahmani, weighs in
Atlantic Council
Women’s Conscription: A Move Towards Gender Equality?
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
Climate Change Intensifies Humanitarian Crises
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Misconceptions on Miscarriage – The Dangers of Cultural Silence
Wilson Center
Nicaragua: Ortega Started to Kill Democracy a Long Time Ago
Wilson Center
Russia's Colonial History in Alaska: A Conversation with Title VIII Short-Term Scholar Michael Kraemer
Wilson Center
Which version of Canada's election history will prevail?
Wilson Center
Early COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign in the United States Prevented Nearly 140,000 Deaths
RAND Corporation
Boko Haram Defections Spike in Nigeria and Cameroon
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Will Students Come Back? A July 2021 Parent Survey About School Hesitancy and Parental Preferences for COVID-19 Safety Practices in Schools
RAND Corporation
Parents Remain Concerned About Safety of In-Person Instruction
RAND Corporation
The Changing Nature of Entrepreneurship
RAND Corporation
12 Defensive Gun Uses Underscore Fallacy of Mexico’s Lawsuit
Heritage Foundation
Belarus dictator escalates EU border migrant crisis
Atlantic Council
The Prospects for a Real “China Bill”
Heritage Foundation
Biden Administration’s Growing Disconnect on Nuclear Deterrence Priorities
Heritage Foundation
Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Speech Proves He Will Be President Chaos
Heritage Foundation
We Need To Understand China’s Domestic Politics
Heritage Foundation
Biden and Critical Race Theory—How To Fight Back
Heritage Foundation
Hydrogen: Savior or Boondoggle for Russia?
German Marshall Fund
Picking Up the Pieces in Afghanistan. What Now?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Will Do More to Reach 2050 Climate Targets than Those of 2030
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The Next Big Refugee Crisis Just Started
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Stories of Afghans Left Behind Will Hurt America around the World
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
CO21124 | Europe’s Islamic Tightrope
RSIS
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
Nature-based Solutions to development and climate change challenges
DIIS
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
Public Opinion on an Ever More Differentiated EU
CIDOB
(Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
Geo-Economics and Trade
DGAP
(German Council on Foreign Relations)
A New Roadmap for the Euro Area
DGAP
(German Council on Foreign Relations)
Russia and America’s overlapping legacies in Afghanistan
Brookings
Millions of workers will lose their safety net this Labor Day if Congress doesn’t act
Brookings
Taking climate action demands better local accounting of costs and benefits
Brookings
Five ways that Open Source Software shapes AI policy
Brookings
The Washington, DC region has built too much housing in the wrong places
Brookings
How will China seek to profit from the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan
Brookings
Biden's handling of Afghanistan has angered some allies
Brookings
Will Afghanistan become a terrorist safe haven again?
Brookings
The benefits and costs of broadband expansion
Brookings
‘The Reserves Will Hold’: Changes in the Israel Defense Forces’ Operational Concept
RUSI
Book Review: A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
RUSI
Book Review: Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order
RUSI
Crisis in Malaysia: Politicking amid the Pandemic
SIIA
(Singapore Institute of International Affairs)
Experts react: What the fall of Afghanistan means for Europe
Atlantic Council
FAST THINKING: What does the fall of Kabul mean for India and Pakistan?
Atlantic Council
Episode 79: Afghanistan
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
Taiwan and the Trump Administration: Meaningful Engagement or Partisan Opportunism?
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
“Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together”: Social Change and the Olympic Games
AIIA
(Australian Institute of International Affairs)
The neglected humanitarian problem of the Karabakh conflict: the fate of missing people
AIR Center
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