China Reform Monitor: No. 1206
Special CRM: Regional Responses to Taiwan’
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South Asia Security Monitor: No. 384
Pakistan to buy Turkey's new tank;
Pakistan and Maldives to strengthen ties;
ISIS linked to Bangladeshi terrorist attacks;
Modi considering first Indian national security policy;
Indian PM meets Afghan chief exec;
Bangladesh Minister seeks stronger ties with India
China Reform Monitor: No. 1205
China wants to bring high-speed rail to Indonesia;
Chinese companies secure deal to build new Egyptian capital
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2038
Russia as a haven for Jews?;
Inquiry: Kremlin fingerprints on Litvinenko killing
Gaza War Deja Vu
The next Gaza war is fast approaching, with the terrorist group Hamas feverishly expanding its tunnel network to launch attacks inside Israel and Jerusalem now debating the shape and timing of its next move.
Strategic Priorities For The Next President
The next American president will inherit a world on fire. Whoever ends up winning the presidential election in the Fall of 2016 will enter the Oval Office facing a range of pressing - and difficult - global problems. How he or she will address them will determine America's place in the world for much of the decade to come. As such, it's worth examining what the future commander-in-chief will be forced to contend with on the world stage.
South Asia Security Monitor: No. 383
Afghan army restructured in Helmand;
Indian warships visits Sri Lanka;
First-ever Russia-Pakistan military exercises;
14 Bangladeshis detained;
Ethnic protests in Nepal continue
Iran’s Road To Easy Wealth
Was the Iran nuclear deal really all about nuclear weapons, from Tehran's point of view? Or did the mullahs play the world for suckers as a road to easy wealth?
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2037
Playing both sides in Afghanistan;
Investigating Russia's hand in European politics
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2036
Russian arms for Hezbollah fighters;
In Moscow, new military investments... and pessimism about the future
The Kremlin’s Selective Counterterrorism
To hear President Vladimir Putin tell it, his government is the proverbial tip of the spear in the global war on terror.
For months, Kremlin officials have taken great pains to style their intervention in Syria in grandiose terms - not simply as a ploy to prop up a key strategic ally, but as a broader campaign against Islamic extremism. To hear them tell it, Russia has been forced to lead because of Western fecklessness in the face of gathering Islamic radicalism. Yet this bluster belies the fact that Moscow's counterterrorism policy is both flawed and selective in the extreme.
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2035
The scent of Russian authoritarianism;
Did Russian hackers target Ukraine's electric grid?
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2034
Lights out in Crimea;
Ukraine as "
frozen conflict"
Global Islamism Monitor: No. 15
The Islamic State's North African front;
Fear and loathing in Beijing...;
...and apprehension in Jakarta;
Pay cuts for ISIS cadres;
Extortion, Taliban style
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2033
New national security strategy outlines Russia's war with the West;
Russian demography, still dismal
China Reform Monitor: No. 1204
Xi presses military reform China bleeding foreign exchange reserves
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 355
Iran's expanding Eurasian horizons;
In Turkmenistan, the constitutional fix is in;
Central Asia feels Russia's economic pain;
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2032
Cutting Crimea loose;
More economic turbulence ahead
China Reform Monitor: No. 1203
Spotlight on repression in Xinjiang;
Beijing mulls rural land reform
China Reform Monitor: No. 1202
Iraqi delegation in Beijing to boost ties;
Local government debts swell
China Reform Monitor: No. 1201
China testing carrier-based fighter jets;
Xi visits PLA Daily, demands party loyalty
Iran’s Perilous Nuclear Lesson for North Korea
North Korea made international news last week when it declared that it had successfully carried out an underground test of a hydrogen bomb. The announcement touched off fevered speculation in Washington about the nature of the test itself (among other things, the yield is believed to have been to small to have been a thermonuclear device), as well as its larger geopolitical significance.
Fallout Ploy: Iran’s Cyberwarfare Contingency Plan
Iran's cyberwarriors are back in action. Late last fall, The New York Times reported that Iranian hackers had carried out an extensive hack on U.S. State Department employees. Among the victims were U.S. diplomats working on the Middle East and on Iran specifically, who had their email compromised and their social media accounts infiltrated. The hack was the latest in what U.S. officials say are increasingly aggressive attempts to glean information about U.S. policies toward Iran in the wake of this summer's P5+1 nuclear deal.
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2031
European sanctions... and a trade war with Ukraine;
The FSB, unleashed
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2030
Moscow rails against NATO expansion;
Yearning for stability increasingly rehabilitates Stalin
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2029
Russia doubles down in Syria;
Moscow's deepening footprint in Africa
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2109
New blood at the Economic Ministry;
The worm turns in Central Asia
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2028
Khodorkovsky back in the spotlight;
Russia's economy goes from bad to worse
Missile Defense Briefing Report: No. 342
Israel readies air based defense for export...;
...and adds new capabilities;
Harnessing left of launch;
Russia adds to Arctic arsenal
Iran Democracy Monitor: No. 160
Iran seeks restitution - and retribution;
The Islamic Republic's deepening water woes;
Iranian cyberwarfare, resurgent;
Gaming Iran's next supreme leader
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2027
A writ to ignore international law;
Russia's military agenda, deferred
Global Islamism Monitor: No. 14
The ISIS WMD threat;
Belatedly, Al-Azhar enters the fray;
The cost of the anti-ISIS campaign...so far;
Battleground: Afghganistan;
The fight against ISIS moves to cyberspace
China Reform Monitor: No. 1200
Spotlight on military reforms;
China's state-owned enterprises face growing losses
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2026
More fallout from Russo-Turkish row;
As economic crisis bites, Russians turn to barter... and protests
China Reform Monitor: No. 1199
Beijing focused on stemming capital outflow;
ISIS beginning to release Mandarin-language propaganda
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2025
Russian infowar... and the stakes for the West;
New Russian energy moves in Europe
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2024
New horizons for Russo-Iranian cooperation;
Turkish-Russian relations on the rocks
China Reform Monitor: No. 1198
Spotlight on Xi's anticorruption campaign;
China and Taiwan swap imprisoned spies
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2023
More economic pressure on Ukraine;
Moscow, Cairo get closer
China Reform Monitor: No. 1197
Special CRM: The 2015 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2022
Russia's toxic business climate;
The Kremlin's selective counterterrorism gains currency
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2021
In Moscow, bracing for blowback from Syria;
China chafes at its current border with Russia
A Much Needed Post-Obama Course Correction On Iran
With most Americans focused on the Islamic State terrorist group, Washington is poised to greatly expand the dangers to U.S. national security on another front - by proceeding to execute the Iran nuclear accord while Tehran ignores its obligations under it and related United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 354
Turkey troops to Baghdad after protests;
Yemen factions agree to peace talks;
Governor killed;
U.S. intel reports ISIS not contained;
Saudi Arabia to host Syrian opposition talks;
Libyan Parliaments reach tentative agreement
China Reform Monitor: No. 1196
China assumes control of Gwadar in Pakistan;
PLA Daily issues multiple calls for Party loyalty
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 2020
Belarus as training ground for pro-Russian forces;
How the Kremlin censors the Internet
China Reform Monitor: No. 1195
China warns foreign spy agencies targeting Tibet;
Beijing watching Myanmar elections with unease
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 353
Turkey: No apology for downed Russian plane;
EU and Turkey come to migrant agreement;
IAF attacks Syrian army, Hezbollah;
Four Egyptian police killed in ISIS attack;
U.S. Senators call for 20,000 troops in Iraq and Syria
China Reform Monitor: No. 1194
Railway to link China and Laos;
In Tibet, no religion for Party officials
An Innocent Mistake
Before year's end, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is reportedly planning to conduct a second freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) around one of China's new artificial islands in the South China Sea. Designed to show that the United States will not recognize any Chinese attempt to establish expansive maritime rights around its man-made outposts, the operation will mark the second mission in as many months, after an October 27 FONOP around China's Subi Reef.