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Arabs, Turks and Persians: Geopolitics and Ideology in the Greater Middle East
For decades, the Greater Middle East has been a leading challenge to American foreign policy. This vast region - ranging from North Africa in the west to Afghanistan in the east, and from the borders of Central Asia down to the Horn of Africa in the south - has been a cauldron of turmoil that has affected not just American interests, but generated threats to the American homeland.
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Thousand Sails: Why Low Earth Orbit is the Next Frontier for Great Power Competition between the U.S. and China
As China rapidly expands its network of satellite mega-constellations, it grows in informational power. As a result, it could acquire a dominant position in global connectivity, greatly expanding the reach and impact of its messaging, propaganda and influence operations.
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Warfare in the Age of AI
Latest In-House Bulletins
Africa Political Monitor No. 44
World Bank Suspends Gabon Disbursements;
Kenya Turns To The Uae;
Nigeria Becomes A Brics Partner;
Sudanese Army Captures Strategic City;
Illegal Mining Crackdown Causes Chaos In South Africa;
New Mozambican President Sworn In Amid Mass Protests
China Policy Monitor No. 1623
China Builds World's Largest Fusion Energy Reactor;
PRC Influence Operation Pushs For Overthrow Of Spain's Government;
Florida Police Bust Smuggling Operation, Detain 26 Chinese Migrants;
Massive Dam In Tibet Alarms China's Neighbors;
China's Spies Recruit U.S. Clearance Holders
Defense Technology Monitor No. 107
China Expands Quantum Satellite Network;
X-37B Tests Novel Orbital Maneuvers;
China Sets The Pace In Global Tech Standards;
Innovative Motor Propels Hypersonic Testing;
Building Better Ai... With Ai
Global Islamism Monitor No. 124
Afghanistan's Other Islamists Rear Their Heads...;
...As Riyadh Moves Closer To Kabul;
Bracing For An Imperial Turkey;
How Hezbollah And Iran Are Adapting
Indo-Pacific Monitor No. 41
South Korea martial law debacle leaves U.S. regional priorities in doubt;
Signs of a thaw between Washington and Phnom Penh;
Thailand has it both ways on space exploration;
North Korean soldiers confirmed dead in Ukraine;
Pacific Island nations tentatively open protected seabeds
Information Warfare Watch No. 42
Germany: a target of Russian hybrid war;
How AJ+ is manipulating the Mideast narrative;
AI turbo-charges Russian disinfo...;
...As Brussels gets more serious;
Overreach in El Salvador?
Iran Democracy Monitor No. 238
Energy jitters in Tehran;
A political wave of pardons;
Iran's new president faces student discontent;
Iran's bloody eastern border
Resource Security Watch No. 58
How Hamas profits from humanitarian aid;
The Ukraine war and global food security;
Zambian drought deepens energy crisis
Russia Policy Monitor No. 2664
He Grim Toll Of Putin's War;
Moscow Thinks Beyond Damascus;
More Signs Of Economic Fragility;
How Is Russia's Recruitment Drive Really Going?
South Asia Strategy Monitor No. 21
Pakistan edged out of BRICS
Modi, Xi meet to resolve border row, reset relations;
Dhaka's new government cleans house;
The Maldives navigates troubled regional waters
Ukraine Reform Monitor No. 14
What Ukrainians think matters most;
New World Bank, EU funds headed for Kyiv;
Tokyo backs Kyiv's judiciary reform bid;
A fire sale in Kyiv