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McCain Institute Leads Post-Election Mission to Tbilisi, Georgia
Europe’s Nuclear Energy and Central Asian Uranium
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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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Assessment of the PLA Rocket Force’s Deterrence Capabilities
President Xi Jinping has promoted the enhancement of strategic forces, stressing new developmental plans for the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF). The U.S. maintains nuclear superiority, but China leads in conventional and hypersonic missile technology.
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Priorities for the Next President
Latest In-House Bulletins
Africa Political Monitor No. 42
Somalia, Ethiopia reach historic deal to resolve port dispute;
ECOWAS advances unity with $15.6 billion coastal highway project…;
…And sets exit deadline for Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso
UN launches new effort to break Libya's election impasse;
Rwanda-Congo peace talks collapse
China Policy Monitor No. 1616
Spies hire Chinese teens to steal state secrets;
Paraguay expels PRC diplomat for Taiwan "interference";
Xi: China should use Mandarin in "border areas";
Canada sanctions eight PRC officials, citing human rights violations;
Accused Chinese spies plead not guilty in London
Defense Technology Monitor No. 106
Up next: satellites for real-time target tracking;
China's hypersonic edge;
How to optimize quantum communications;
Toward military-grade 3D printings;
Vortex cannon capabilities
Global Islamism Monitor No. 122
Cairo's kindler, gentler textbooks;
Hezbollah lives to fight another day;
ISKP takes a dim view of Hamas
Indo-Pacific Monitor No. 39
Jakarta walks fine line with military exercises...;
...While Laos doubles down on cooperation with Beijing;
Australia, Pacific Islands respond to China's police presence;
Tokyo takes steps to shore up territorial control;
Manila takes a stand
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. 2658
Assad gets asylum in Moscow...;
...as Moscow scrambles to preserve its Syrian presence;
Prisoners to the (war) front;
NATO mobilizes versus Russia;
Nazi sentiment makes a comeback;
Kadyrov's clout grows
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