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(USA) Defense Intelligence Agency awards IT services contract worth up to $12.6 billion (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden  The Defense Intelligence Agency announced a contract worth up to $12.6 billion for a broad range of IT services, naming 144 vendors that...

(Russia) Potemkin Putin (Project-Syndicate)

ANDERS ÅSLUND Although Russian President Vladimir Putin has proven adept at weathering storms of popular unrest, there are good reasons to think that this year's...

(Democracy) Sarkozy’s Conviction Is a Win for the Rule of Law (Project-Syndicate)

JOSEF JOFFE From France to America, democratic countries are affirming the fundamental principle of government by law, not by men (and women). That is the...

(USA) The US Military and the Capitol Mob (Project-Syndicate)

CHARLES C. KRULAK The disproportionate share of insurrectionists at the US Capitol with a military background are not representative of the armed forces as a...

(Global Economy) The Threats to Recovery (Project-Syndicate)

WILLIAM R. RHODES, STUART P.M. MACKINTOSH Many of the monetary and fiscal measures in advanced economies over the past 12 months were necessary and unavoidable. But...

(Kyrgyzstan) Kyrgyzstan Preparing for Constitutional Reform in Search for Stability (The Jamestown Foundation)

George Voloshin On January 11, the leader of Kyrgyzstan’s most recent revolution, Sadyr Zhaparov, won the presidency in what turned out to be a largely...

(Armenia/Azerbaijan/Turkey) Azerbaijan, Turkey Watching Armenia’s Political Crisis (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor Viewed from Baku and Ankara, the political conflict in Armenia pits military and civilian nationalists unreconciled to defeat in the Second Karabakh War...

(Russia) Moscow Prioritizes the Development of Hypersonic Weapons (The Jamestown Foundation)

Roger McDermott Since Moscow’s entry into the civil war in Syria in September 2015, its experimentation with high-precision cruise missile strikes has served to boost...

(USA) Texas power crisis shows need to build a clean, resilient grid (Stem, WEF)

John Carrington The recent power outage in Texas was caused by extreme weather freezing the state's electric and gas systems. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/what-can-texas-power-crisis-show-us-about-building-more-resilient-grid-america/

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