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Chinese hypersonic missile test unlikely to trigger arms race, experts say (Jen Judson, Defense News)

The August test of a Chinese space-based hypersonic missile is unlikely to trigger an arms race, but could influence the White House and Defense Department’s effort...

China shows off drones recycled from Soviet-era fighter jets (Mike Yeo, Defense News)

China has for the first time showed off retired 1950s era fighter jets that have been converted to unmanned drones, with satellite photos of two of...

The Deadly Stalemate in Post-coup Myanmar (Crisis Group)

What’s new? A dangerous stalemate has developed between Myanmar’s military regime and resistance forces. Both sides are determined to prevail, but neither seems likely to...

Afghanistan, AUKUS and European Strategic Autonomy (Pol Morillas, CIDOB)

Security and defence are increasingly grabbing the spotlight in European public debates. In just a few weeks, the withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan...

Identity and Transitional Justice in the Horn of Africa and Libya (Jesutimilehin O. Akamo, CIDOB)

Identity and conflict shape each other. This is evident in the historical trajectory of the Horn of Africa (HoA) – notably in the conflicts...

Climate Change and Violent Extremism in North Africa (Moussa Bourekba, CIDOB)

As climate change intensifies in many parts of the world, more and more policymakers are concerned with its effects on human security and violence....

Iran’s fuel shipment to Lebanon requires regional policy shift (Lina Khatib, Chatham House)

In September 2021, at the height of the unprecedented fuel shortage in Lebanon, a tanker carrying Iranian fuel docked at a Syrian port where...

What near-term climate impacts should worry us most? (Daniel Quiggin, Ruth Townend, Tim Benton, Chatham House)

This research paper – drawing on insights from 200 experts – highlights that, within the current decade, climate hazards are expected to have increasingly...

Concentration of artificial intelligence and other frontier IT skills (Wang Jin, Georgios Petropoulos and Sebastian Steffen, Bruegel)

Online job postings indicate that demand from top tech firms for frontier IT skills is about double their demand for other IT skills. This...

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