Publications

South Asia Security Monitor: No. 369

May 25, 2015

India eyeing larger presence in Andamans;

Sri Lanka to launch war crimes investigation;

Maldives President visits Pakistan;

Beijing wants cooperation from Delhi on Indian ocean mining;

Taliban launches attacks on Badakhshan  

A Cautionary Tale

May 25, 2015 James S. Robbins U.S. News & World Report

The U.S. government's vast apparatus for data collection touches every aspect of human activity. But how can a system that seemingly has the capability to know absolutely everything still get major events so wrong?

Global Islamism Monitor: No. 5

May 21, 2015

Britain's Jihadis return home;

Pushback in Tunisia;

How the Islamic state is sneaking into Europe;

The Islamic State's resilient terror economy;

In the Sahara, cracks in Islamist identification;

Australia's hard line  

The Economics Of Deterring Russia

May 21, 2015 Ilan I. Berman The National Interest

When it comes to the prospects of war in Europe, perhaps we simply aren't asking the right questions. For months now, Russia watchers within the Beltway and in European capitals have been preoccupied with anticipating the next moves of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the year-old conflict taking place in Ukraine.