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Azerbaijan’s drones owned the battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh — and showed future of warfare
Robyn Dixon, The Washington Post | The expanding array of relatively low-cost drones can offer countries air power at a fraction of the...


Ceasefire in the Caucasus opens door to rebalancing of regional power
James M. Dorsey, Modern Diplomacy | Spontaneous mass protests against the terms of the ceasefire and the government’s conduct of the war...


India, Saudi Arabia and the Riyal 20: The Intent and the Repercussions
Harish K. Thakur, Modern Diplomacy | Saudi Arabia has quite recently released a 20 Riyal banknote to commemorate its presidency of...


East Africa Has Yet to Tap Its Full Maritime Potential
Ahmed Hersi and Roba D. Sharamo, All Africa | By not managing and using shared maritime resources, East African states are missing an...


Why Beijing Hasn’t Called Biden
James Palmer, Foreign Policy | Just as some Americans are convinced that the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party is around the...


Introduction: How Can Policy Makers Predict the Unpredictable?
Meg King, Aaron Shull, CIGI | As the world moves into a deeply fragmented time, defined by distrust and great power competition, AI holds...


Trump administration plans "flood" of sanctions on Iran by Jan. 20
Barak Ravid, AXIOS | The Trump administration, in coordination with Israel and several Gulf states, is pushing a plan to slap a long...


Where President-elect Joe Biden stands on national security issues
Aaron Mehta and Joe Gould, Defense News | Biden, who was elected to the Senate exactly 48 years ago to the day he was named winner of the...


America’s new power couple: Mitch and Joe
Burgess Everett, Alex Thompson & Marianne Levine, Politico | During Barack Obama’s presidency, Joe Biden’s propensity for cutting deals...


Russia, Iran meddling with US elections: 'Hacking of our hearts and minds'
Carla Bleiker, DW | One of the biggest concerns in the upcoming US election is that foreign powers could interfere with the vote. Experts...


2020 elections: AI has chosen a winner- but there’s a catch
Independent | AI will one day be able to predict the outcomes of the electoral college with near-total precision: it’s not a matter of...


Trump and Africa: How Ethiopia was 'betrayed' over Nile dam
Farouk Chothia, BBC News | US President Donald Trump, escalating tensions between two long-standing American allies, Egypt and Ethiopia,...


Nine scenarios for the 2020 U.S. elections
The Japan Times | Kuni Miyake, the President of the Foreign Policy Institute, a private think-tank in Tokyo, draws nine scenarios that...


African debt to China: ‘A major drain on the poorest countries
Jonathan Wheatley, Joseph Cotterill & Neil Munshi, Financial Times | Over the past two decades, China has emerged as the biggest...


What a Biden Win Would Mean for the Future of Multilateralism
Stewart M. Patrick, WPR| Should Joe Biden win the American presidency on Nov. 3, the world will experience whiplash, as the U.S. performs...


Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons Passes Important Threshold
Rick Gladstone, NY Times | Fifty countries have now ratified the treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, so it will become international law....


The War Comes Home: The Evolution of Domestic Terrorism in the United States
Center for Strategic and International Studies This analysis provides new data on the domestic terrorist threat in the United States. It...


Pandemic worsens challenges of fragile states in Middle East and Central Asia, IMF says
Massoud A Derhally, The National | Coronavirus has led to remittances declining by as much as 25% in some countries during the first half...


Team Biden Should Start With an Asia Pivot 2.0
Foreign Policy | The recent meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue in Tokyo revealed many of the dilemmas the United States faces...


Trump, Biden and the World
Washington Post | A presidential election in the United States is an international event. For decades, the question of who occupies the...
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