Khamenei’s Eclipse: Absolute Rule Crumbles into Paralysis and Infighting in Iran
…dissidents continue and media bans persist. The Supreme Council of Cyberspace hasn’t met since May 2025, and a partial unblocking of WhatsApp and Google Play in December 2024 were technocratic…
Accelerating Change But Not Necessarily an Inflection Point
…of times it is mentioned in books, according to Google’s Ngram viewer. Certainly, immense changes are underway in many low- and middle-income countries. The International Futures tool, a forecasting model…
North Korea’s “Checkerboard” Threat: Obstacles & Opportunities for the US-ROK Alliance
…assistance of 38 North’s Research Associates Natalia Slavney and Iliana Ragnone. Although North Korea’s rollout of new ballistic missiles during the parades dominated international headlines for weeks, the numerous improvements…
Semiconductor Nationalism in the Shadow of Taiwan’s Election
…Google, Nvidia, and Intel. More than half of the company’s institutional stockholders are American, but Taiwan retains the largest stake. Unlike TSMC’s two foundries under construction in Arizona, initially, at…
Saudi Arabia and the UAE Compete to be Hubs for Regional Business
…an interview, Joseph A. Kéchichian, a senior fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, explained that while Emiratis are not very happy about the…
The Terrifying Geography of Nuclear and Radiological Insecurity in South Asia
…the requisite means, motive, and opportunities for an incident of terror via weapons of mass destruction or disruption converge in South Asia. https://fusiontables.google.com/embedviz?q=select+col3+from+1KeITeRFgB53VKAMjkNMhaijT9kxv83yt5zuIUYkW&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=24.81769138190341&lng=67.23092314414976&t=1&z=11&l=col3&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=TWO_COL_LAT_LNG The upcoming Summit on Countering WMD Terrorism, to be…
A Choke-point Strategy on the Dark Web
By Levi Maxey: Did you know that when you “google” something you only access a fraction of the World Wide Web? Indeed, commercial search engines only scratch the surface, about…
Chronology Sources
…https://register.consilium.europa.eu/doc/srv?l=EN&t=PDF&gc=true&sc=false&f=ST%2017175%202008%20INIT&r=http%3A%2F%2Fregister.consilium.europa.eu%2Fpd%2Fen%2F+08%2Fst17%2Fst17175.en08.pdf February 10, 2009 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2023/1 Nov. 27, 2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf February 10, 2009 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2023/1 March 7, 2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf May 14, 2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf November 27,2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf April 22, 2010 https://www.spacesecurity.org/space.security.2011.revised.pdf November 3,…