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Wars of Ideas: Theology, Interpretation and Power in the Muslim World
This work explores the current state of the “wars of ideas” against radical Islam and identifies America’s potential partners in this fight.
Latest Policy Paper

The Promise of Space-Based Solar Power
Commercial-level Space-based solar power (SSP) satellites will reduce dependence on fossil fuels, dramatically shift global energy markets, build economic and geopolitical influence, and accelerate military and space power projection.
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The Shifting Dynamics of South Asia
Latest In-House Bulletins
Africa Political Monitor No. 21
Kenya turns the page;
Tensions between Mali, Ivory Coast on the rise;
Movement towards compromise in Ethiopia's civil war?;
Landlocked nations eye Nigeria's new port;
What African publics really think about China
China Reform Monitor No. 1536
China's Coast Guard patrols an Indonesian gas field;
Pakistan's Gwadar port locked down after protests;
India deploys stingers at China border;
FBI search escalates fight over China's overseas police outposts;
Hong Kong runs "deradicalization" program
Defense Technology Monitor No. 84
DARPA pushes limits on low satellite orbits;
Brain enhancement will have options;
DTRA automating decontamination;
Jointly countering hypersonics;
Russian exoskeleton development continues
Global Islamism Monitor No. 101
Kadyrov's war corps;
The Islamist threat to the UK;
The Taliban clamps down further;
Hezbollah and the Ukraine war
Indo-Pacific Monitor No. 29
Japan breaks from pacifist legacy, doubles defense spending;
Washington, Manila repair ties... with an eye on Beijing;
Democracies converge on Indonesia to offset China's influence;
China doubles down on Cambodian investments;
China's inaugural "Indian Ocean Forum" sidelines India
Information Warfare Watch No. 19
Moscow begins weaving a new narrative;
Needed: A fund for independent media;
Russia's new samizdat industry;
Tightening Kremlin restrictions on the internet
Iran Democracy Monitor No. 227
Special Issue: Iran's Anti-hijab protests
The basis for the crackdown;
Official conspiracy theories abound;
Iran's clerics contemplate cutting their losses;
The ethnic dimension of the protests;
Iranian officials eye the exits
Resource Security Watch No. 47
Drought, famine face Somalia;
China's drought drives the great power competition conversation;
On coal, Beijing sticks to the status quo;
Another casualty of Russia's war in Ukraine; fertilizer;
The fallout from the Nord Stream explosions
Russia Reform Monitor No. 2558
A domestic resistance rises;
The Kremlin redraws the map;
Medvedev wants to punish "traitors;"
Estonia eyes Russian assets;
Moscow has money to burn
South Asia Strategy Monitor No. 4
Amid border tensions with China, an Indian show of force;
Nepal elections usher in pro-China shift;
Pakistan becomes an oil client of the Kremlin;
Taliban-ISIS feud still simmers