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Andrew Eversden The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon’s top research arm, has a new leader. https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/it-networks/2021/03/16/new-director-takes-over-at-pentagons-top-research-office/

Lina Sinjab When Alan George wrote the book Syria: Neither Bread nor Freedom in 2003 following the death of President Hafez al-Assad, he could not have known...

Harriet Moynihan, Champa Patel This paper maps the Chinese government’s restrictions on online freedom of expression, and explores their domestic, regional and international implications. https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/03/restrictions-online-freedom-expression-china

Joseph Parilla and Sifan Liu On March 11, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. But an earlier, House-passed provision to increase the federal...

Kemal Kirişci It has been 10 years since the conflict in Syria began to displace Syrians from their homes into neighboring countries. Since then, their...

Cheng Li and Senqi Ma American Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the United States needs to be engaged in “a race to the top, not a...

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig One of the pressing obstacles on Africa’s economic growth is its limited infrastructure. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2021/03/17/figures-of-the-week-africas-spatial-distribution-of-road-infrastructure/

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley Just over a year into the COVID-19 crisis, it is apparent that there is great urgency for governments to address an overlapping...

Marcela Escobari, Dhruv Gandhi, and Sebastian Strauss As COVID-19 continues to take a toll on the economy, America faces three interrelated challenges: (1) high unemployment alongside a...