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Radical Sanctions on Belarus Will Not Push Minsk Into Moscow’s Arms, Russian Experts Argue (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Angered by Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s repressive moves and desirous of being on the right side of history, Western governments have imposed increasingly tough sanctions on...

Is Serbia Preparing to Annex Kosovo’s North? (Margarita Assenova, The Jamestown Foundation)

Tensions on the Serbian-Kosovo border have rapidly escalated, threatening to spiral into a renewed conflict in the Balkans. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has ordered...

The Taliban Takeover of Kabul and Implications for the India-Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Transit Corridor (Vali Kaleji, The Jamestown Foundation)

The port of Chabahar—located on the Makran coast of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province, near to the Gulf of Oman and at the mouth...

An airlift capability to match China’s strategic ambitions (Loro Horta, East Asia Forum)

While analysts give substantial attention to China’s expanding fleet of modern fighter jets, such as the J-20 and J-15, they are much less enamoured...

Reformulating ASEAN’s Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (Aristyo Rizka Darmawan, East Asia Forum)

The waters of the Indo-Pacific are heating up, with Beijing’s increasing activities in Southeast Asia pushing the United States and its allies into a...

An update on the effect of Pandemic EBT on measures of food hardship (Lauren Bauer, Krista Ruffini, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Brookings)

Over the past 18 months, the United States experienced the most rapid economic downturn in its history and the most severe pandemic in more than a...

11 facts on the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic (Mitchell Barnes, Lauren Bauer, and Wendy Edelberg, Brookings)

Despite the headwinds created by the Delta COVID-19 variant, the economy is recovering. Economic growth during the pandemic has generally surpassed consensus expectations while...

The way back: Assessing economic recovery among Black Americans during COVID-19 (Bradley Hardy and Trevon D. Logan, Brookings)

While all Americans, regardless of socioeconomic background, have been affected by COVID-19, Black Americans from economically disadvantaged communities have been hit particularly hard by...

The risks of US-EU divergence on corporate sustainability disclosure (Addisu Lashitew, Brookings)

Sustainability disclosure is in vogue, with more than 80 percent of major global companies reporting on some aspects of their social and environmental impacts. This is...

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