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Afghanistan/USA. Remembering the Gains of the Afghanistan War (Daniel Byman, Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare)

U.S. Air Force pararescuemen secure an area in Afghanistan, Nov. 7, 2012, (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/791522/pararescue-afghanistan/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder/United States Air Force) The end of a war is...

High-Tech Deterrence. “War is interested in you”: Balancing the promise and peril of high-tech deterrence (Melanie W. Sisson, Brookings)

Twenty years ago, I sat in a classroom on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with around 40 peers. We were concentration-shopping — the...

Afghanistan/USA. The evacuation of Afghan refugees is over. Now what? (Elizabeth Ferris, Brookings)

The dramatic scenes from Kabul Airport of desperate Afghans seeking to escape reverberated around the world. The U.S., other governments, and a hodge-podge assortment...

TechInnovation/USA. Using AI and machine learning to reduce government fraud (Darrell M. West, Brookings)

Artificial intelligence is being deployed in many different areas. Within higher education, it is used for college admissions and financial aid decisions. Health researchers...

Global Climate Action. Conditions are ideal for a new climate club (Simone Tagliapietra and Guntram B. Wolff, Bruegel)

Annual global greenhouse-gas emissions have been rising steadily for decades and show no sign of peaking. That is, humankind is not making enough progress...

Europe/India. EU-India trade relations: assessment and perspectives (Suman Bery, Sonali Chowdhry, Alicia Garcia-Herrero and Niclas Poitiers, Bruegel)

Following the EU-India summit in May 2021, talks on both an EU-India trade and an investment agreement have resumed. This analysis provides background on...

Europe. A green fiscal pact: climate investment in times of budget consolidation (Zsolt Darvas and Guntram B. Wolff, Bruegel)

The additional public investment need required to meet the European Union’s climate goals is between 0.5 percent and 1 percent of GDP annually during...

War On Terror. Ending the Post-9/11 Forever Wars (Rep. Barbara Lee, Brennan Center for Justice)

On September 11, 2001, the world witnessed a terrible attack against our nation that took thousands of lives and changed millions more lives forever....

Afghanistan. Sanctions alone won’t tame the Taliban (Brian O’Toole, Atlantic Council)

After two decades of conflict in Afghanistan, it’s difficult to imagine Western powers resorting to military intervention against the Taliban, even if the group...

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