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Lebanon and the UNIFIL Mandate: Disarming Hizballah and Reclaiming Sovereignty (Middle East Institute)

With its new government at the half-year mark and the UNIFIL international peacekeeping force’s mandate due for reauthorization at month’s end, Lebanon stands at...

Post-Oct. 7 divergent paths: Israel’s military maximalism and Saudi Arabia’s strategic de-escalation (John Calabrese – Middle East Institute)

The Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, shattered Israel’s long-standing security paradigm, replacing limited deterrence with an ambitious campaign aimed at dismantling Hamas, confronting...

Preventing Unrest in the Run-up to Cameroon’s Presidential Poll (Crisis Group)

Cameroon’s October presidential election will be a stress test for the country’s stability. Frustrations with the incumbent and ruling party, constraints on dissent, armed...

ASEAN and China need their own climate compact (Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat – Lowy The Interpreter)

As the next round of annual global talks on climate change approaches, the European Union and China last month jointly issued a climate declaration...

The world court tightens the tap on fossil fuels (Melanie Pill, Meg Keen – Lowy The Interpreter)

After months of anticipation, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has delivered an advisory opinion on climate change – confirming the obligation of countries...

On Sudan: America and China take very different tacks (Matteo Boccia – Lowy The Interpreter)

On 22 May, the US State Department announced a determination that the Sudanese army had used chemical weapons in the current civil war. The...

Chinese cyberattack on US nuclear agency highlights importance of cyber hygiene (Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan – ASPI The Strategist)

Cyberattacks on any critical infrastructure should be alarming, but attacks on nuclear infrastructure are all the more so due to the potential consequences, including...

How Tariffs Could Derail the United States’ $3 Trillion AI Buildout (Philip Luck – Center for Strategic & International Studies)

On Wednesday, Trump proposed a 100 percent tariff on semiconductors that could raise the cost of AI servers by as much as 75 percent,...

What Trump’s Submarine Threat and Russia’s INF Exit Really Mean (Heather Williams – Center for Strategic & International Studies)

Social media is again the preferred platform for nuclear signaling. On August 1, Trump announced in a social media post that he was ordering...
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