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Articles for August 30, 2021 - September 5, 2021

Sunday, 05 September 2021

US anti-corruption crusade should focus on Europe’s east

Atlantic Council

Saturday, 04 September 2021

"Principled Pragmatism" Reset: For a Recalibration of the EU's Diplomatic Engagement with the MENA Region

IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

Friday, 03 September 2021

Chronicling Crisis and Recovery in Latin America

Wilson Center

Japanese PM Suga to Step Down

Wilson Center

Brazil’s role in international development cooperation

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Lessons from Afghanistan

RAND Corporation

Reinforcing U.S. Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific After the Fall of Afghanistan

RAND Corporation

Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Australia’s Response to the Coup in Myanmar

Lowy Institute

Eight More Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development—Testing Summary Report: Measure Name: Receiving Desired Help for Pain

RAND Corporation

MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development—Testing Summary Report: Measure Name: Feeling Heard and Understood

RAND Corporation

The Implications for Human Rights in the Digital Age

RAND Corporation

Texas Gets Election Reform Right, Mainstream Media Gets It Wrong

Heritage Foundation

Afghanistan demonstrates why it’s time for a clear Syria policy, starting with northeast Syria

Atlantic Council

Pakistan and the Taliban 2.0: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Atlantic Council

Broadening the pressure on the Lukashenka regime

Atlantic Council

Event recap: “What is the key to national prosperity?”

Atlantic Council

Texas Heartbeat Law Is Now in Effect. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Heritage Foundation

Biden’s Taliban Gamble and Over the Horizon Mirage

Heritage Foundation

Why U.S.-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement Is in Interest of Both Nations

Heritage Foundation

Democrats Don’t Understand How Critical Race Theory Threatens Our Military

Heritage Foundation

The Left Wants to Close Your Bank Accounts

Heritage Foundation

The EU’s Triangular Dilemma on Climate and Trade

German Marshall Fund

Germany is Vulnerable before the Elections but Can Still Escape Interference Attempts

German Marshall Fund

Impact of U.S. Sanctions on Aid Delivery in Afghanistan

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

The Capital Cable #33 with Senator Brian Schatz

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

The Next Decade in U.S. Power Sector Decarbonization

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Japan’s Prime Minister Steps Aside

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

All Quiet along the GERD: Will This Year’s Rains Avert a Worst-Case Scenario?

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Taliban Talks to “International Community”

IDSA (Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)

Beijing’s Strategic Moments with Taliban: Policy, Strategy and Worldview

IDSA (Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)

Turkish and Iranian Response to Upheaval in Afghanistan

IDSA (Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)

If you Can't Beat Them, Join Them: Should States Embrace Bitcoin?

IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

France, China and the BRI: The challenge of conditional engagement

Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales)

Conflicts in the EastMed: From Germany’s and France’s Conflicting Strategies to a Dual Approach

Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales)

Gruppepress – fungerer det?

NUPI (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)

Challenges to early childhood education in the wake of COVID-19

Brookings

COVID-19 impacts on foreign direct investments in sub-Saharan Africa

Brookings

Can national statistical offices shape the data revolution?

Brookings

Insurgency is easier than governing: The future of the Taliban in Afghanistan

Brookings

Suga steps down: Japanese politics in the pandemic era

Brookings

Vigilante groups and militias in southern Nigeria

Brookings

Transfers of major arms to Afghanistan between 2001 and 2020

SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)

Cruise missiles in the Middle East

IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies)

American security cooperation needs an ‘integrity check’

Atlantic Council

Germany’s defense minister: Only political will can protect Europe

Atlantic Council

Italy shows how defense partnership is done

Atlantic Council

FAST THINKING: Who’s funding the Taliban?

Atlantic Council

Australia Reaches Across Borders to Shore Up Post-Pandemic Recovery

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

Sino-ASEAN Relations and Wolf Warrior Diplomacy

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

3 September: The Week in Australian Foreign Affairs

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

Thursday, 02 September 2021

International History Declassified - The Ghosts of Sheridan Circle with Alan McPherson

Wilson Center

The CIA in the Eye of the Storm

Wilson Center

Waiting for the Storm? Ukraine’s Political Situation before the Autumn of 2021

Wilson Center

Integrating Conflict Prevention and Climate Change in U.S. Foreign Policy and Development Assistance

Wilson Center

Four Key Questions About Afghanistan’s Future

Wilson Center

It’s Time for the World to Treat Wildlife Crime as Serious and Organized Crime

Wilson Center

Wilson Memo: Ransomware & Russia

Wilson Center

Where Chinese Science Fiction and RAND History Meet

RAND Corporation

Data Rights Relevant to Weapon Systems in Air Force Special Operations Command

RAND Corporation

Strengthening and Empowering Delivery of the Covenant: Evaluation of the Strengthening Delivery of the Armed Forces Covenant Programme

RAND Corporation

Disparities in Social and Economic Determinants of Health by Sexual Identity, Gender, and Age: Results from the 2015–2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health

RAND Corporation

Taliban Capture of Super Tucano Highlights Risk in Nigeria

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

Women This Week: Challenges to Abortion at Home and Abroad

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

A Review of Public Data About Terrorism and Targeted Violence to Meet U.S. Department of Homeland Security Mission Needs

RAND Corporation

Arizona Moves To Make Legal Assistance More Affordable

Heritage Foundation

The US-Pakistan relationship in a new Afghanistan

Atlantic Council

To honor two generations of service members, prevent the next GWOT ribbon

Atlantic Council

Biden and Zelenskyy get US-Ukraine ties back on track

Atlantic Council

Japan Should Develop Strike Capabilities To Augment Its Defense

Heritage Foundation

North Korean Cyberattacks: A Dangerous and Evolving Threat

Heritage Foundation

Why Do We Keep Using Stupid War Slogans To Talk About War?

Heritage Foundation

New School Year Brings New Education Options for Kids and Families

Heritage Foundation

How Donald Rumsfeld Helped Save the Presidency

Heritage Foundation

Italy Positions Itself as the Driver of “Transatlantically Sustainable” European Strategic Autonomy

German Marshall Fund

Maritime Security Dialogue: An Update on the Marine Corps with Commandant Gen. David H. Berger

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

CO21134 | Inter-Religious Dialogue: Catholic Social Teachings and Cohesion

RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)

Industrial Policies for Health: The G20 Must Act Now

IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

From Friends to Partners? The Changing Nature of Sino-Tanzanian Relations

Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales)

Danish development cooperation

DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies)

The root cause of ‘Western’ failure in Afghanistan

CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)

Hard Questions for NATO post-Afghanistan

DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations)

International Corporate Tax Reform

DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations)

Born identities

Brookings

The war in Afghanistan has shaped an entire generation in the West

Brookings

A hot labor market won’t eliminate racial and ethnic unemployment gaps

Brookings

Hutchins Roundup: Stimulus checks, gender disparities, and more

Brookings

The Senate’s new cannabis reform bill can do more for drug war-targeted communities

Brookings

Biden is appointing judges faster than Trump, and most everyone else—for now

Brookings

Designing a collaborative fund for underserved entrepreneurs: Lessons from Western New York’s Open4 program

Brookings

Russia’s Growing Ambitions in the Red Sea Region

RUSI

The Cost of the Pandemic in Southeast Asia: The Need for Further ASEAN Cooperation

SIIA (Singapore Institute of International Affairs)

Expert react: What the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan means for Turkey

Atlantic Council

ISIS: From State to Caliphate

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

ISIS-K: High-Profile Attacks, Low-Profile Organisation

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

Brisbane 2032: Hold On to Your Wallets

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

Global asymmetries strike back

Bruegel

Wednesday, 01 September 2021

The DRC Mining Industry: Child Labor and Formalization of Small-Scale Mining

Wilson Center

Afghans that Remain Are in Dire Need of Humanitarian Support

Wilson Center

Integrating Infrastructure in U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy: Lessons from China

Wilson Center

Woodrow Wilson Awards Honor Senator Wicker and Congresswoman McCollum

Wilson Center

What’s the Plan? U.S. Land Border Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Wilson Center

Helping local authorities to support members of the Armed Forces community

RAND Corporation

A Better Path Forward for Criminal Justice: A Report by the Brookings-AEI Working Group on Criminal Justice Reform

RAND Corporation

What If Progress Meant Well-Being for All? U.S. Innovators Use Global Insights to Shift the Narrative and Surface Opportunities Ahead

RAND Corporation

New COVID-19 Variant Detected in South Africa

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

The Fight for Climate After COVID-19

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

The Business Case For Rigorous Evaluation Of Mobile Health Apps

RAND Corporation

An escalating Israel-Iran conflict could sink the JCPOA

Atlantic Council

On the way out like Afghanistan? The Biden administration’s Syria policy labyrinth

Atlantic Council

Putin militarizes Belarus

Atlantic Council

Young Ukrainians must not remain hostages to the country’s totalitarian trauma

Atlantic Council

Afghanistan Withdrawal—5 Ways Biden’s Leadership Went Bad

Heritage Foundation

America Must Stand Up for Fundamental Rights of Afghan Women

Heritage Foundation

Government Misinformation: How Congress Can Get Agencies to Address the Problem

Heritage Foundation

Office for Civil Rights Sticks Its Nose Unnecessarily Into School Masks Debate

Heritage Foundation

Interreligious Relations (IRR) Issue 26 – Dasŏk Yu Yǒng-Mo’s Korean Trans-Cosmic and Trans-Religious Spirituality: A Translation and Commentary on “Spiritual Hiking” by Heup Young Kim

RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)

IP21004 | What the RCEP Can Tell Us about China’s Role in the Emerging Geoeconomic Order in Asia

RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)

Conservative Politics After Afghanistan

Heritage Foundation

How Zambia and China Co-Created a Debt ‘Tragedy of the Commons’

SAIIA (South African Institute of International Affairs)

Cameroon’s Separatist War: Anglophone Grievances and its Diaspora

SAIIA (South African Institute of International Affairs)

Creating Better Political Conversations

German Marshall Fund

Watching China in Europe - September 2021

German Marshall Fund

CO21133 | China’s Military Modernisation: Constrained by One-Child Policy

RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)

Public Opinion on an Ever More Differentiated EU

IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

Sudan's Transition in the Balance

IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

RAMSES 2022. Beyond Covid

Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales)

Translating national threats to individual security

DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies)

Translations of security cascading at Thule

DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies)

Europe’s New Refugee Crisis

DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations)

The new Thrifty Food Plan re-evaluates a 50-plus-year-old design and low-income kids will benefit

Brookings

Comments on No Surprises Act Rulemaking: Part I

Brookings

Adversaries or competitors: A conversation on US-China relations

Brookings

What does back-to-school look like during COVID?

Brookings

Give IRS the tools it needs to enforce tax rules and catch cheaters

Brookings

Homeownership, racial segregation, and policy solutions to racial wealth equity

Brookings

Trustee Phil Knight donates $15 million to Brookings’s Foreign Policy program

Brookings

A new federal grant should make regional leaders rethink their industry clusters

Brookings

The social media war in the Middle East

Brookings

Student reassignments achieve diversity without academic adversity

Brookings

Book Review: Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency

RUSI

Securing Support Advantage: The Transformation of Defence Support

RUSI

Assessing the Implications of the APRM’s Expanded Mandate

SAIIA (South African Institute of International Affairs)

What is violence prevention?

ISS Africa (Institute for Security Studies)

How to avoid another state-building failure after Afghanistan

Atlantic Council

FAST THINKING: Ukraine’s president finally gets a White House visit

Atlantic Council

The International Community Can and Should Help End Haiti's Unnatural Disasters

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

"A True Friend Down Under": Why Australia's Relationship With the US Can Harm Australia

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

Addressing instability in Central America: Restrictions on civil liberties, violence, and climate change

Atlantic Council

Tuesday, 31 August 2021

South Korea’s Defense Capabilities and Acquisition Programs

Wilson Center

As Afghanistan crumbles, Turkey's airstrikes set up the next disaster

Wilson Center

Ambassador James F. Jeffrey on The John Batchelor Show: "'Purist' ISIS vs Taliban; with bombs."

Wilson Center

Robin Wright in The New Yorker: "U.S. Retaliation for the Kabul Bombing Won’t Stop ISIS or End Terrorism"

Wilson Center

Strategic Relations Between the US and Vietnam

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Reentry, Desistance, and Identity Achievement

RAND Corporation

Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorders: The Harm Associated with Punitive Approaches

RAND Corporation

Nigeria and Russia Sign Military Cooperation Agreement

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

Developing the Great Lakes National Center of Expertise for Oil Spill Preparedness and Response: An Opportunity to Reduce Risk and Impacts of Future Spills in Freshwater

RAND Corporation

How State Critical Race Theory Bans Could Trickle Down to the Classroom

RAND Corporation

Adapting to Climate Change, With Alice C. Hill

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

Biden and Bennett turned the page on US-Israel ties. But not many were paying attention.

Atlantic Council

Could Snake Island be the next hot spot in Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war?

Atlantic Council

Biden Must Avoid Another Fiasco With Iran After Afghanistan Debacle

Heritage Foundation

America Deserves Answers on Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal

Heritage Foundation

The U.S.-UK Special Relationship After the Fall of Kabul

Heritage Foundation

North Korea Ramps Up Nuclear Weapons Production

Heritage Foundation

CDC Should Revise Its Guidance Mandating Masks at School

Heritage Foundation

Conservatives Can and Must Save America From Biden

Heritage Foundation

China’s Concept of National Security under Xi Jinping with Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens

German Marshall Fund

Global Economics Monthly, August 2021

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

ISP Brief August 2021

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Living with the Taliban?

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Blended Finance, and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Deciphering Russia’s Afghan Policy

IDSA (Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)

Transnational threat or PR stunt?

DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies)

Corporate community engagement professionals in the renewable energy industry

DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies)

The military junta in Myanmar weaponizes COVID-19 against its opponents

DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies)

Reassessing Russian Capabilities in the Levant and North Africa

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

China’s Digital Yuan: An Alternative to the Dollar-Dominated Financial System

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

A strategic shift: The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan and its implications

Al Jazeera Centre for Studies

The geography of AI

Brookings

High school transition programs have mixed success in improving college readiness

Brookings

A framework for categorizing and analyzing prescription drug pricing reform options

Brookings

How well did the Fed’s intervention in the municipal bond market work?

Brookings

Innovation beyond patent waivers: Achieving global vaccination goals through public-private partnerships

Brookings

How the NDAA invests in America’s defense: A conversation with HASC Chairman Adam Smith

Brookings

Which will be the top 30 consumer markets of this decade? 5 Asian markets below the radar

Brookings

A year like no other

Brookings

Will the Taliban regime survive?

Brookings

The British Army and Mass in Urban Warfare

RUSI

Missile arms-racing and insecurity in the Asia-Pacific

IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies)

[EAI Online Seminar] Democracy Cooperation Series 11. Voices of the Youth for Democracy

East Asia Institute

Bologna: Birthplace of the University

Heritage Foundation

US intel is now flying blind in Afghanistan

Atlantic Council

As the US faces increasing threats, the next National Defense Strategy must rise to meet them

Atlantic Council

To build lasting peace, you can’t ignore militant groups

Atlantic Council

FAST THINKING: The war is over, but the Afghanistan mission continues

Atlantic Council

Episode 81: The Future of Multilateralism

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

Successful Diplomacy is Always Personal

AIIA (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

Trusted connectivity: A framework for a free, open, and connected world

Atlantic Council

Extreme heat: The economic and social consequences for the United States

Atlantic Council

The Economic Crisis Deepens In Armenia – OpEd

AIR Center

Monday, 30 August 2021

Peaceful Minefields: Environmental Protection or Security Risks?

Wilson Center

To The Borderline, Part 2, with Rep. Suzan DelBene

Wilson Center

Delivering Vaccines Overseas the Right Way

Wilson Center

Women’s Political Empowerment and CEDAW: The Case of Iran and Turkey

Wilson Center

Food Insecurity in Palestine: A Future for Farmers

Wilson Center

Army Theater Fires Command: Integration and Control of Very Long-Range Army Fires

RAND Corporation

Afghanistan Was Lost Long Ago

RAND Corporation

Nigeria Security Tracker Weekly Update: August 21–27

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

Where Iran Stands on the Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

Costa Rica Leads the Way in Cutting Carbon Emissions

RAND Corporation

Lowy Institute Conversations: Richard Marles on Australia in the Pacific

Lowy Institute

The Rise of Virtual Schools: Selected Findings from the Third American School District Panel Survey

RAND Corporation

What More Investment Could Mean for U.S. Infrastructure

CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)

A moral consideration of the Taliban’s legitimacy

Atlantic Council

“Crimea is Ukraine”: Kyiv summit sends powerful message to Vladimir Putin

Atlantic Council

What unites Ukrainians?

Atlantic Council

Thank You for the New Terror War, Mr. President. Now What?

Heritage Foundation

Biden Still in Excuse-Making Mode

Heritage Foundation

The View From Omaha Beach

Heritage Foundation

Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Collapse Tanked Transatlantic Relations

Heritage Foundation

Joe Biden Must Stand Tall With Ukraine Against Russia

Heritage Foundation

President Biden Must Reaffirm U.S. Support for Ukraine in Meeting with Zelenskyy

Heritage Foundation

Free Trade and Clean Energy Go Together

Heritage Foundation

Insights on Emissions Reduction among U.S. States

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Resurrecting the Environmental Goods Agreement

CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

CO21132 | Rebuilding Regional Economies: Role of Female Labour

RSIS (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)

India and Taliban

IDSA (Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)

Understanding Ad-Hoc Security Intitiatives in Africa

NUPI (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)

Expert insights: Afghanistan

Clingendael

Civilian Conflict Management

DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations)

Afghanistan may descend into chaos

Brookings

Why did state-building efforts in Afghanistan fail?

Brookings

The role of fiscal decentralization in promoting effective domestic resource mobilization in Africa

Brookings

Government regulated or negotiated drug prices: Key design considerations

Brookings

20 years after 9/11, jihadi terrorism rises in Africa

Brookings

How Chile implemented its computer science education program

Brookings

Where are they? Searching for missing persons and meeting their families’ needs

ISS Africa (Institute for Security Studies)

Pliny’s Problem With Christianity—And Ours

Heritage Foundation

Why the tragic Afghanistan withdrawal should reassure US allies in Asia

Atlantic Council

Experts react: The US withdrawal from Afghanistan is complete. What’s next?

Atlantic Council

Pitching Abraham’s tent: The human dimension of UAE-Israeli normalization

Atlantic Council

Hydrogen development strategies: a global perspective

Bruegel

Brookings

107.6

CSIS

103.1

CFR

96.0

Atlantic Council

89.5

Wilson Center

81.4

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