Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

Afghanistan – Experts react: The Taliban has taken Kabul. Now what? (Atlantic Council)

Andrew L. Peek, Kirsten Fontenrose, Irfan Nooruddin, James B. Cunningham, Barry Pavel, Christopher Preble, William F. Wechsler, Evanna Hu, Daniel Fried, Nathan Sales, Arun Iyer, C. Anthony Pfaff, Jennifer A. Counter The Taliban has completed its lightning...
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Afghanistan – How the Taliban did it: Inside the ‘operational art’ of its military victory (Atlantic Council)

Benjamin Jensen The Taliban are in Kabul and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has left the country. How exactly did the militant group do it? Understanding how the...
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Cybersecurity – US FINRA warns US brokerage firms and brokers of ongoing phishing attacks (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The US FINRA warns US brokerage firms and brokers of an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating its representatives to steal sensitive info US FINRA warns brokers of ongoing...
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Cybersecurity – Threat actor claims to be selling data of more than 100 million T-Mobile customers (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini T-Mobile is investigating a possible data breach after a threat actor published a post on a forum claiming to be selling the personal data...
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USA/China – US–China rivalry needs more clarity and less polarity (East Asia Forum)

John Wright, US Air Force A daily barrage of US–China military alarms fill inboxes and news feeds. While many of these reports genuinely attempt to...
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USA – Science-based increase in SNAP benefits should result in a healthier citizenry (Brookings)

Robert Greenstein The Agriculture Department’s announcement that it is revising the food package on which benefit levels in the SNAP program (formerly known as food...
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Global – Will COVID-19 mark the end of the old international order? (Brookings)

Thomas Wright and David Dollar The COVID-19 pandemic has been the greatest shock to the international order in decades, and unlike previous shocks, major powers like the...
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Africa – Digital technology and African smallholder agriculture: Implications for public policy (Brookings)

Aloysius Uche Ordu, Larry Cooley, and Lesly Goh COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges to Africa’s food and agriculture sector and to its millions of smallholder farmers. At the...
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Afghanistan/Central Asia – The Afghan Threat to Central Asia (Valdai Discussion Club)

Khudoberdi Kholiknazar Many experts on Afghanistan argue that without the permission of the Taliban, such extremist and terrorist groups will not violate the borders of the CIS member...
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Global – From Proxy Wars to Proxy Diplomacy (Valdai Discussion Club)

Timofei Bordachev The beginning of August was marked by two events that, in the absence of their fundamental significance for the global agenda, are essential...
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India – India 2030: The rise of a Rajasic Nation (ORF)

The conviction of modern times and the emerging post-Pulwama essence made Mr Gautam Chikermane look back at the philosophy of Kapila’s Samkhya and Sri...
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UAE – Balancing between the health of the community and the economy (ORF)

MAI EL-KINAWI At the beginning of July, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) achieved the milestone of being “the world’s most vaccinated nation”, according to the Bloomberg...
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Afghanistan/Russia – Russian Ambassador to Kabul will meet with coordinator from Taliban leadership on Tuesday (TASS)

Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov will meet on Tuesday with the coordinator of the leadership of the Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia) to...
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Bangladesh – 86 Victims of Enforced Disappearance Still Missing (HRW)

© Private United Nations human rights experts should lead an independent international investigation into enforced disappearances by security forces in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch said in a...
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Myanmar – Covid-19 Surge in Myanmar’s Prisons (HRW)

Relatives wait in front of Insein prison for the release of people detained since the February 1 military coup, June 30, 2021. © 2021 Santosh...
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Afghan Refugees/USA/Albania/Kosovo – Albania, Kosovo say ready to temporarily house Afghan refugees (Euractiv, Reuters)

File photo. Albania and Kosovo have accepted a US request to temporarily take in Afghan refugees seeking visas to enter the United States, the...
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