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The new geopolitics of fragility: Russia, China, and the mounting challenge for peacebuilding (Bruce Jones and Alexandre Marc, Brookings)

This report is being released after the swift fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in August marked an inglorious end to 20 years of...

Improving learning and life skills for marginalized children. Scaling the Learner Guide Program in Tanzania (Patrick Hannahan, Jenny Perlman Robinson, and Christina Kwauk, Brookings)

This report focuses on one of the scaling labs launched in Tanzania in 2018 in collaboration with the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED). It examines the process...

Foreign fighters: The question of justice (Rodger Shanahan, The Interpreter)

The legal fallout from Islamic State’s short but bloody existence is both complex and enduring. For those Westerners who travelled to Syria and Iraq...

Covid and the failure of global cooperation (Stephen Greenville, The Interpreter)

Book Review: Adam Tooze Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy (Allen Lane, 2021) Adam Tooze’s account of the 2008 financial crisis – Crashed – demonstrated his ability to...

Can Australia get second-hand nuclear submarines? The US option (Marcus Hellyer, The Strategist)

In my previous post, I looked at some of the issues involved in the Royal Australian Navy acquiring or leasing older nuclear-powered attack submarines from...

A Quad-led effort could help the people of Myanmar (Dominic Simonelli, The Strategist)

With ASEAN toeing the line of non-interference, the Quad has its first major opportunity to prove its mettle and help end the violence in...

Ahead Of Talks, Putin Claims IS Has 2,000 Fighters In Afghanistan (RFE RL)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Islamic State (IS) militant group has thousands of fighters in northern Afghanistan, as Moscow prepares to host...

EU Awaiting Response From U.S., Tehran Before Calling Meeting Of Nuclear Deal Negotiators (RFE RL)

EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell is waiting on responses from Washington and Tehran before calling a meeting of negotiators on the Iranian nuclear deal,...

Azerbaijani Soldier Killed In Skirmish Amid Ongoing Diplomacy On Nagorno-Karabakh (Suren Musayelyan, RFE RL)

One Azerbaijani soldier has been killed and six Armenian servicemen wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh in skirmishes reported late on October 14. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said...

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