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(Lebanon/Device Seizures) Device Seizures in Lebanon: Assessing the Legal Framework concerning device seizures (SMEX)

We have witnessed in the last couple of years a striking increase in the number of devices seized by security agencies in Lebanon, a...

(UK/Military Expenditure) Reassessing SIPRI’s military expenditure estimate for the United Kingdom (SIPRI)

Dr Nan Tian and Dr Lucie Béraud-Sudreau In November 2020, in the midst of the ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 and despite a projected 10.4 per cent decrease in...

(Japan/National Security Strategy) SF Prototyping – a Proposal for Building a National Strategy (The Sasakawa Peace Foundation)

Jun Nagashima Executive Member,DSEI JAPAN (Defense and Security Equipment International) Lieutenant General (Retired) "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein...

(East and Southeast Asia/Migrant Workers’ Rigths) Repression and Resilience: COVID-19 Migrant Workers’ Rights in East and Southeast Asia during COVID-19 (The Sasakawa Peace Foundation)

Interview with Daniel Awigra, Deputy Director of the Human Rights Working Group, and Mariko Hayashi, Director of the Southeast and East Asian Center https://www.spf.org/en/spfnews/information/20210205.html

(Japan/Europe/USA/Security) Report Publication: “Allies Growing Closer: Japan–Europe Security Ties in the Age of Strategic Competition” by Dr. Jeffrey Hornung

Jeffrey Hornung The report describes the different types of cooperation in the security domain between Japan and European countries, the two most reliable allies for the United States in light of the current resurgence of great...

(Ongoing Paradigm) The Ongoing Paradigm Shift under Shifting Geopolitics and Covid-19 (The Sasakawa Peace Foundation)

Noboru Yamaguchi Senior Visiting Fellow, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation The world is now witnessing a paradigm shift. Nations everywhere are grappling with the third wave of...

(Bitcoin) Schrödinger’s Bitcoin (Project-Syndicate)

WILLEM H. BUITER Notwithstanding the recent spectacular surge in its price, Bitcoin will remain an asset without intrinsic value whose market value can be anything...

(Russia/Alexey Navalny) Can Navalny Take Down Putin? (Project-Syndicate)

NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA Unlike the protests that roiled Russia in 2011-12 in response to Vladimir Putin’s third presidency, today’s protest movement has a charismatic and...

(Ethiopia/UN) The UN Must Intervene in Tigray (Project-Syndicate)

MEHARI TADDELE MARU When a state fails to prevent or alleviate atrocities within its territory, or if the state itself is the primary perpetrator of...

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