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Human Rights. Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week (HRW)

Jim Murphy Trending rights tweets this week: 400,000 civil servants in Myanmar are still on strike, seven months after the military coup; the Taliban were...

Iran. Iran Appoints New Atomic Energy Chief With No Nuclear Expertise (RFE RL)

Iran's newly-elected President Ebrahim Raisi has appointed a new head of the country’s atomic agency, replacing the nation's most prominent nuclear scientist with someone...

Kazakhstan. Thirty Years Ago, Kazakhstan Closed Soviet-Era Nuclear Test Site (RFE RL)

August 29 marks 30 years since Kazakhstan closed its Semipalatinsk test site, a vast, remote area that was used by the Soviet Union for...

Australia. Sharpening deterrence (The Interpreter)

Ben Scott “If you want peace, prepare for war.” The idea that states can avoid war by strengthening their military is attractively simple, and the...

Australia. The economics of defence industrial self-reliance: budgeting and buying (The Strategist)

Rob Bourke Graeme Dobell’s brief history of ASPI’s Cost of Defence series over two decades reveals a fascinating tussle between Australia’s military–industrial complex and economic reality. That...

Canada/China. Canada’s China relationship edges toward strategic clarity (East Asia Forum)

Author: Paul Evans, UBC This is a febrile moment in Canada–China relations. Diplomatic interactions are on ice, trade in goods is hot, public feelings are...

Cities/Technologies/Climate Change. Are Energy Clocks the Smart Way to Make Cities Cleaner? (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change)

Olamide Oguntoye Cities trying to go cleaner by cutting emissions often find smart technologies –despite their huge potential benefits – challenging to implement and...

Artificial Intelligence. AI Standardization and Foreign Policy – How European Foreign Policy Makers Can Engage with Technical AI Standardization (SNV)

Philippe Lorenz Technical standard-setting in artificial intelligence (AI) has a direct impact on traditional foreign policy domains, such as the protection of human rights and...

Malaysia. Malaysia’s Political Impasse: The Battle of Two Tigers (Friedrich Naumann Foundation)

Norman Goh Malaysia has been experiencing a hung parliament where no party or coalition controls a reliable majority since March 2020. As premier Muhyiddin struggles to...

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