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Issue Brief

Aug 8, 2018

Outside-the-Box Sino-Indian and Indo-Russian cooperation on Afghanistan

By Omar Samad and Bharath Gopalaswamy

Recent Sino-Indian and Indo-Russian informal agreements to undertake joint projects in Afghanistan mark a geographical paradigm shift in the strategic ambitions of the region’s largest stakeholders.

Afghanistan China

Issue Brief

Aug 8, 2018

Outside-the-Box Sino-Indian and Indo-Russian cooperation on Afghanistan

By Omar Samad and Bharath Gopalaswamy

Recent Sino-Indian and Indo-Russian informal agreements to undertake joint projects in Afghanistan mark a geographical paradigm shift in the strategic ambitions of the region’s largest stakeholders.

Afghanistan China

Issue Brief

Jul 31, 2018

How the United States can combat Russia’s kleptocracy

By Anders Åslund

Over the past eighteen years, Vladimir Putin has perfected a peculiar style of rule in Moscow. Once in office, his associates enriched themselves by looting state resources and seizing vulnerable private resources.

Corruption Russia
Iraq

Issue Brief

Jul 18, 2018

Beyond security: Stabilization, governance, and socioeconomic challenges in Iraq

By Dr. Harith Hasan

As unrest over the Iraqi government’s failure to provide essential services grips southern Iraq, the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East is offering insight and analysis beyond the headlines. In a new issue brief, Beyond Security: Stabilization, Governance, and Socioeconomic Challenges in Iraq, Dr. Harith Hasan explores the ways in which economic and social […]

Economy & Business Iraq

Issue Brief

Jul 18, 2018

Beyond security: Stabilization, governance, and socioeconomic challenges in Iraq

By Dr. Harith Hasan

In his new issue brief, Dr. Harith Hasan explores the ways in which economic and social issues play into Iraq’s instability and the genesis of violent conflict.

Economy & Business Iraq

Issue Brief

Jun 26, 2018

Environmental and wildlife degradation in Iran

By David Laylin

Environmental degradation has become a major issue in Iran. It is a source of economic hardship, ill health, social disruption, and recent political protests. Climate change has been a factor in this deterioration but so has mismanagement of the country’s once ample natural resources. Our latest issue brief, Environmental and Wildlife Degradation in Iran, authored […]

Energy & Environment Iran

Issue Brief

Jun 26, 2018

Environmental and wildlife degradation in Iran

By David Laylin

Environmental degradation has become a major issue in Iran. It is a source of economic hardship, ill health, social disruption, and recent political protests.

Energy & Environment Iran

Issue Brief

Jun 15, 2018

How to increase pressure if diplomacy with North Korea fails

By Daleep Singh and Peter E. Harrell

Peter E. Harrell, adjunct senior fellow at CNAS, explain that a truly “maximum pressure” campaign on North Korea would require the credible threat of targeted sanctions against China.

China Korea

Issue Brief

Jun 15, 2018

How to increase pressure if diplomacy with North Korea fails

By Daleep Singh and Peter E. Harrell

The uncertain results of President Trump’s June 12 summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un underscore the fact that the United States needs to keep developing tools to intensify the “maximum pressure” campaign that helped bring North Korea to the negotiating table. If North Korea proves unwilling to denuclearize and diplomacy breaks down once […]

China Korea

Issue Brief

Jun 11, 2018

Improving the Western strategy to combat Kremlin propaganda and disinformation

By Anton Barbashin

Since Putin’s annexation of Crimea and military aggression in Donbas—and especially since the 2016 US presidential election—the spread of Kremlin propaganda and disinformation has become a dominant subject of discussion and debate in the West.

Central Europe Disinformation
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