Building a Bilateral Framework for Cybersecurity in South Asia

…will need to take measures to make sure these sites are secure. Cyber threats also open the door for potential new pathways of escalation as well as new risks of miscalculation or…
Examining US Arms Sales to Qatar

…Foreign Military Construction Sales (FMCS): https://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/files/historical_facts_book_-_30_september_2015.pdf International Military Education & Training (IMET): 2001 – 2015 Actual: https://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/files/historical_facts_book_-_30_september_2015.pdf 2016 Actual: https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/271013.pdf 2017 Estimate: https://www.congress.gov/114/crpt/srpt290/CRPT-114srpt290.pdf 2018 Request: https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/271013.pdf Photo credit John Murphy…
Prepare for the Inevitable: Emerging Cyber Risks to Nuclear Facilities

…(June 13, 2022), https://www2.illinois.gov/ready/Press/Pages/061322b.aspx; https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_2021-national-preparedness-report.pdf; https://www.cisa.gov/cyber-storm-viii-national-cyber-exercise; https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FINAL-Cyber-Storm-VIII-After-Action-Report-082022.pdf; FEMA, “2022 National Preparedness Report,” U.S. Department of Homeland Security (December 2022) https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national-preparedness#reports; “Cyber Storm VIII: National Cyber Exercise,“ Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security…
Understanding Kim Jong Un’s Economic Policymaking: Management System Discourse

…text, with some proper nouns following internationally recognized spellings or North Korean transliterations instead. For an overview of the project and the project’s scope and methodology, see Rachel Minyoung Lee…
Rare Earths and Realpolitik

…February 2021 coup. Since the military takeover, rare earth extraction has expanded rapidly in northern Kachin State. According to ISP-Myanmar, the number of active mining sites rose from about 130…
Nuclear Security in Review, 2020

…Efforts,” February 14, 2020, (Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 2020), https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/20/06/cn-278-president-report.pdf, (accessed December 28, 2020) The Ministerial Declaration endorsed by more than 140 states recapitulated2International Atomic Energy Agency, “IAEA Ministerial…
Iran Escalates Nuclear Standoff by Suspending Cooperation with IAEA

…governance as well as a calculated gambit to recalibrate the terms of engagement with the agency. The legislation freezes surveillance of equipment installation, inspector access to declared nuclear sites, and…
Where the American-Israeli War on Iran Leaves the Gulf Arabs

…other Gulf officials possibly seeing Muscat as failing to support collective interests of GCC states. The Road Ahead for the Gulf Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to…