Intersections

Strategic resilience can help prevent tragedy in the next flash flood (Thomas S. Warrick – Atlantic Council)

The death toll from the July 4 flash floods in central Texas—at least 136 dead, including thirty-seven children—is a failure of strategic resilience that...

Forget Berlin and Paris — Athens Is Leading Europe’s Digital Shift (Konstantinos Komaitis – Tech Policy Press)

As Brussels accelerates work on Europe’s new digital identity wallet, a flagship of the European Union’s Digital Decade development plan, the success of the...

Six months later, US soft power feels effects of USAID cuts (Melissa Conley Tyler and Heather Wrathall – The Strategist)

Six months ago, the Trump administration paused almost all foreign assistance. As more than US$60 billion of programs suddenly stopped, we predicted that people...

The Twilight of International Peacemaking Institutions? (Richard Gowan – Crisis Group)

These are hard times for formal international institutions. The post-Cold War period saw the rapid expansion of multilateral organisations in numerous policy domains, not...

The end of the endless frontier? A warning on research cuts (Michael Feuer – Brookings)

For eight decades, bipartisan support for federally funded research has driven U.S. scientific leadership, economic growth, and life-saving innovation. Proposed cuts to university-based research...

Starve, Pray, Die. In an interview, Alex de Waal discusses Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war in Gaza, and its repercussions...

Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation, which is affiliated with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts...

The rise of false flag conspiracy theories in moments of crises (Valeria de la Fuente – Institute for Strategic Dialogue)

False flag conspiracy theories predate the internet by decades, but the speed and volume at which they now spread is unprecedented, with claims increasing...

Online radicalization and the nexus to violence in the US: 2024 year in review (Jared Holt, Cody Zoschak, Katherine Keneally – Institute for Strategic...

In recent years, violent attacks with weapons and other acts of politically charged violence in the US have challenged longstanding frameworks used to identify...

Operation Overload’s underwhelming influence and evolving tactics (Institute for Strategic Dialogue)

Operation Overload, also referred to as Matryoshka and Storm-1679, is a Russian-aligned information operation that impersonates credible sources to sow confusion and undermine public...

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