Iran Democracy Monitor No. 247
Iran's new bargain with China: oil for arms;
New preparations for war...;
...And plans to militarize the Caspian;
Executions reach new high...;
...As legal penalties expand
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Russia Policy Monitor No. 2699
Growing Russian military desertion;
A pivot away from the Mediterranean;
A mounting fuel crisis;
Freed Ukrainians count Russian torture
China Policy Monitor No. 1649
China continues to stockpile oil;
Beijing imposes more export controls on rare earths;
U.S. sanctions China refinery for Iran oil purchases;
China stops buying American soybeans;
BYD opens massive EV plant in Brazil
A Space Week Without Strategy
Sixty-eight years ago, the Soviet Union shocked the world by launching Sputnik 1 and igniting the space race. Today, new Sputnik moments loom on the horizon, and the stakes are far higher. The country that emerges as a preeminent space power will guarantee its own economic and national security, and shape the “rules of the road” that govern the international community for decades to come. Who will that be?
Global Islamism Monitor No. 135
Islamists target Nigeria's Christians;
An ISIS resurgence in the Sahel;
Iran and the Palestinian arena;
After the ceasefire, a struggle for control