Ever since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan two years ago, their main target has been female Afghans. The religious fundamentalist group, which also held in power in Afghanistan from the late 1990s to late 2001, has thus far banned secondary and tertiary education for females as well as their right to employment. When women […]
A new executive order restricts U.S. investments in sensitive technologies that Washington fears could help Beijing increase its military power. It is the latest in a raft of policies erecting barriers between the world’s two largest economies, and U.S. allies could soon adopt similar measures. Amid China’s economic downturn and mounting U.S. concern over protecting […]
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Geopolitical competition and civil war are on the rise. At the same time, disasters like droughts, flooding, and hurricanes are becoming increasingly devastating, partly due to climate change and persistent poverty. How are these trends interacting and what lessons can we draw for more robust policies and interventions?Dr. Tobias Ide, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor
GCC- Swiss Forum 2024 The Gulf Research Center (GRC) was founded in 2000 and is a leading independent think tank on Middle Eastern and Gulf affairs. The GRC is a non-profit organization that gathers and disseminates knowledge about the GCC countries as well as Iran, Iraq, and Yemen. The GRC conducts intensive scholarly research on
Exclusive Subscriber+Member Interview — In a flurry of negotiations on the eve of the NATO summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed himself as the dealmaker that he is, said former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Cipher Brief Expert James Jeffrey. “This guy does deals,” he said of Erdogan’s decision to no longer block Sweden’s
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING & EXPERT ANALYSIS – Just a week after Wagner Group Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin launched the final mission of his mercenary career in the form of a revolt against Russia’s leadership, President Vladimir Putin is moving swiftly to identify and punish those who may have helped while western experts assess the fissures in Putin’s
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Following her latest trip there in July 2017, Vanda Felbab-Brown takes a closer look at U.S. policy toward Afghanistan. Felbab-Brown writes that while President Trump’s decision for the U.S. to stay in the country with a somewhat enlarged military capacity is largely correct, the president’s approach contains a critical and fundamental flaw: the
Tonight the nation will turn its attention to an annual ritual that, like American politics itself, runs the gamut from inspiring to ridiculous—the State of the Union. The State of the Union was originally called the Annual Message. Although President George Washington gave the first one in person before Congress in 1790, Thomas Jefferson decided
Chris Simkins, Voice of America: Joining us is Thomas Mann, a Senior Fellow of Governance Studies with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Thank you, Mr. Mann, for joining us. Let’s talk about the President’s State of the Union address. Historically speaking, what significance do these State of the Union addresses have? Thomas Mann: The