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UN development summit shows who’s really fanning the flames (Melissa Conley Tyler – The Interpreter)

The UN International Conference on Financing for Development is a big deal. It is held only once a decade, on a topic that the...

Global operation targets NoName057(16) pro-Russian cybercrime network (Europol)

Between 14 and 17 July, a joint international operation, known as Eastwood and coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, targeted the cybercrime network NoName057(16). Law...

Russia’s Finances Beyond War – Supporting the Occupied Regions (Emily Ferris – RUSI)

President Trump’s most recent threat – to slap Russia’s economic trade partners with prohibitive tariffs in a bid to push through war negotiations with...

Raw Materials for Potential Chemical Warfare Agents: Technical Assessment 1 (RUSI)

Understanding the raw materials and precursor chemicals required to support a chemical weapons (CW) programme is an important foundation stone in an assessment of...

The Time-Crunch for CyberEM Command’s Challenges (Robert Tollast – RUSI)

The forthcoming UK Cyber and Electromagnetic Command (CyberEM) outlined in the Strategic Defence Review could be a much-needed pillar of modernisation. It follows a...

Houthi arms dealers use Zuckerberg’s Meta, Elon Musk’s X to sell US guns: Report (Interesting Engineering)

A new report has revealed that arms dealers linked to Yemen’s Houthi rebels are openly using social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and...

Like It or Not, Democratic Societies Need Clearly Defined Adversaries (Daniel Hegedüs, Goran Buldioski – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

Over the past decade, the “boiling frog” has been a popular metaphor for the democratic decline in Western societies. While this gradual decline has...

Next-Generation Perspectives on Taiwan (Michal Bokša, Philipp Buschmann, Johanna M. Costigan, Natalie Ivanov, Thomas König, Jacob Kostrzewski, Ben Levine, Shuxian Luo, Julia Mykhailiuk, Kayla...

In an increasingly fractured world where authoritarianism is gaining ground, Taiwan stands as one of the strongest and most resilient democracies. Taiwan placed first...

Brief: Iranian Branch of PKK Faces Uncertain Future Amid Regime Crackdown (Jacob Zenn – The Jamestown Foundation)

The Islamic Republic of Iran is cracking down on the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) in the aftermath of its war with Israel. The...

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