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Riaz in The Daily Star: Democracy: The journey that has taken a wrong turn

By Atlantic Council

Riaz in East Asia Forum: COVID-19 ails Bangladesh’s health, politics and economy

By Atlantic Council

Varshney in the Indian Express: When history is written, US courts may be singled out for protecting nation’s election integrity

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Schuman in The Atlantic: The undoing of China’s economic miracle

By Atlantic Council

On January 11, 2021, Michael Schuman published a story in The Atlantic on the global consequences of Xi Jinping’s turn away from economic reforms that helped drive Chinese economic growth and development in recent decades.

Loomis and Scott in Lawfare: A role for the vulnerabilities equities process in securing software supply chains

On Jan. 14, something unusual happened—the National Security Agency (NSA) publicly announced that it had discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE 2020-0601) deep within Windows 10 and reported it to Microsoft for patching. The disclosure was lauded because of the bug’s severity; buried in a cryptographic library, it would have allowed opportunistic attackers to decipher encrypted […]

Cole’s “Ghost Fleet” featured in Task & Purpose’s list of military movie ideas

By Atlantic Council

On January 11, Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow August Cole was featured in an article in Task & Purpose on new ideas for military movies.

Busch in The Hill: The promise of AfCFTA

By Marc L. Busch

Marc Busch writes that the African Continental Free Trade Area offers an ambitious promise but needs substantially more work to achieve success and importantly complement the WTO.

Drun quoted in The Guardian

By Atlantic Council

On January 10, 2021, Jessica Drun was quoted in an article by Helen Davidson in The Guardian, “Pompeo lifts US-Taiwan restrictions in move likely to anger China.”

Hudson quoted in Bloomberg on US policy in the Horn of Africa

By Atlantic Council

Ashford quoted in The Atlantic: How can the United States spread democracy or act as an example for others if it barely has a functioning democracy at home?

By Atlantic Council

On January 10, Emma Ashford’s was quoted in Thomas Wright’s article in The Atlantic entitled “The U.S. Must Now Repair Democracy at Home and Abroad.” More about our expert