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(Armenia) Prime Minister Pashinian Stages Own Coup Against Armenia’s Military (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor Armenia’s military top brass has demanded that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government resign “for having brought the country to disaster.” https://jamestown.org/program/prime-minister-pashinian-stages-own-coup-against-armenias-military/

(Russia) Moscow’s Plans for New Kind of Aircraft Carrier Unlikely to Be Realized (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble In late February, TASS reported that Russian designers have come up with “a new class of ship.” The vessel, nicknamed the Varan, will function as an...

(Russia/Ukraine) Russia Escalates Its Proxy War in Eastern Ukraine (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer The ceasefire on the line of control in the breakaway Donbas region of eastern Ukraine is unraveling. In July 2020, both sides—the Ukrainian...

(UK) Taking the Profit Out of Intellectual Property Crime: Piracy and Organised Crime (RUSI)

Ardi Janjeva, Alexandria Reid and Anton Moiseienko This Whitehall Report explores how criminals make money from piracy and provides recommendations on how the UK government,...

(USA) The US Economy: Stimulation and Large Geostrategic Risks (RUSI)

Andrew Law Joe Biden is about to preside over the biggest stimulus package in the modern history of the US. It represents a big but...

(UK) Human Trafficking: The UK Needs to Improve Its Response (RUSI)

Keith Ditcham and Iisa Kosonen The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the UK violated its international obligations to protect the victims of...

(Innovation/Technology/Artificial Intelligence) The Artificial Intelligence Battlespace (RUSI)

Peter Layton For military forces, AI is a case of ‘coming, ready or not’. Developed to meet commercial imperatives, the technology is rapidly maturing. It...

(USA/Asia-Pacific) Three Pillars for a US Trade Strategy in Asia-Pacific (Chatham House)

Marianne Schneider-Petsinger After four years of the Donald Trump administration’s piecemeal approach to trade with Asia-Pacific, the US now finds itself on the outside of...

(Pandemic/Debt) Emerging-market Debt in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Chatham House)

David Lubin This paper, which is published under the Global Economy and Finance Programme’s ‘Rebuilding International Economic Cooperation’ project, offers two proposals to help prevent...

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