Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

Ethiopia/USA – Dangerous trends in Ethiopia: Time for Washington’s tough love (Brookings)

Vanda Felbab-Brown Amonth after a seeming breakthrough toward conflict de-escalation in the grinding war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and the associated humanitarian catastrophe, conflict...
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USA – Why hospitals and healthcare organizations need to take cybersecurity more seriously (Brookings)

Emily Skahill and Darrell M. West The fuel shortages and rising gas prices generated by the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in May foreshadow the disastrous and far-reaching effects of cyberattacks on...
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Global – Global governance after COVID-19: Survey report (Brookings)

Kemal Derviş and Sebastian Strauss The Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings conducted a survey on multilateralism in the Spring of 2021 as part of a...
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USA – Homelessness fell across most metro areas after the Great Recession. Will COVID-19 change that? (Brookings)

Matt Ring and Jenny Schuetz Over the past year, job losses from the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated housing insecurity among low-income renters. As of January 2021, nearly one in four of...
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USA/China – Biden will not abandon US’ One China policy: US scholar (Global Times)

As a bipartisan "anti-China" consensus seems to become increasingly solid in the US and the US' foreign policy is showing more recklessness, how will...
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BIMSTEC – Building a Regional Approach to Energy Security for BIMSTEC (ORF)

Roshan Saha, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury The seventh of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims “to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy...
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Hezbollah/Hamas/Israel/Gaza Strip – The Address for a Response to the Lebanese Attacks on Israel Is Gaza, Not Beirut (BESA Center)

Dr. Doron Matza Even if Hezbollah is responsible for the latest rocket attack on the Galilee, Hamas is culpable for the security deterioration in southern...
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Iran/Hezbollah – Hezbollah is an Iranian Strategic Tool (BESA Center)

Col (Res.) Dr. Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen Hezbollah and its leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, do not have the authority to independently unleash their vast rocket/missile arsenal...
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Iran – Iran’s Raisi names US-sanctioned Mokhber as first VP (Euractiv, AFP)

Iran’s new ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday (8 August) named the chairman of a powerful state-owned foundation sanctioned by the United States as...
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Europe/Belarus – EU calls meeting on Belarus border crisis (Euractiv, AFP)

European Union ministers are to hold crisis talks on what they see as a bid by Belarus to pressure Lithuania and the rest of...
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Poland – Poland to dissolve judges’ Disciplinary Chamber to meet EU demands (Euractiv, Reuters)

Poland will do away with a disciplinary system for judges which the EU’s top court has ruled violates EU law, the head of the...
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Moldova – Moldova parliament backs pro-European cabinet (Euractiv, AFP)

Moldova’s parliament on Friday (6 August) confirmed Natalia Gavrilița as prime minister and approved her programme to pull the post-Soviet country out of a...
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Afghanistan – Afghan official Q&A: What next amid new Taliban offensive? (Al Jazeera)

The Taliban has captured the city of Kunduz, the armed group said, the third provincial capital it has taken over in the last three...
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Afghanistan – As fighting rages in Afghanistan, health workers are struggling (Al Jazeera)

Sarah Leahy Project coordinator at the MSF Helmand project in Lashkar Gah city Since May, when foreign troops started withdrawing from Afghanistan, we have witnessed heavy...
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Afghanistan – Taliban captures three more Afghan provincial capitals in a day (Al Jazeera)

The Taliban has captured three more provincial capitals, as they take their fight to the cities after seizing much of the countryside in recent...
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Rwanda/Mozambique – Rwanda, Mozambique forces recapture port city from rebels (Al Jazeera)

Rwandan forces deployed last month to help Mozambique’s army battle rebels said on Sunday they have recaptured control of the key northern port of...
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