How International Funding Shapes Myanmar Pro-Democracy CSOs’ Activism in the Post-Coup Era
Editor’s Note: Stimson’s Myanmar Project seeks a variety of analytical perspectives on issues relating to Myanmar’s civil war, domestic politics, foreign relations, and other topics. Aye Lei Tun is a…
Chinland Council Established in Myanmar
…junta outpost in the countryside. Chin military successes were crowned with a political breakthrough. 235 attendees from across Chin State, neighboring Chin communities, and the broader Chin diaspora came together…
TRANSCRIPT – BNP Returns to Power: Assessing the Results and Implications of Bangladesh’s Elections
…reader in international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Farooq Sobhan is a former foreign secretary in Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and joining me as a…
Restoring American Engagement: Priorities for the Biden Administration to Improve United Nations Peace Operations
…Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) for example, the United States builds partner countries’ peacekeeping training, operational readiness, and sustainment capacity – including training over 10,000 female peacekeepers. Many of the troops…
A Foreign Affairs Budget for the Future: Fixing the Crisis in Diplomatic Readiness
…planning, budgeting and overseeing foreign and security assistance activities. It recommends transferring authority from DOD to State for global training and equipping of foreign security forces (the Section 1206 program),…
AI Race: The Promise and Perils of Techno-Utopians
…to avoid similar analytic failures in the future—the project works to challenge assumptions, misperceptions, and groupthink with a view to encouraging alternative approaches to America’s foreign and national security policy…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, March 2025
…the Metropolitan Police Department and the Osaka prefectural police. Currently, about 200 personnel are members of such specialist squads stationed at nine prefectural police departments. Material Minimization Nationwide Recovery of…
SAV Q&A with Asanga Abeyagoonasekera: Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis – Part 2
…Sri Lanka? Whoever the next foreign minister is will have a huge challenge. One challenge is to recalibrate Sri Lanka’s foreign policy to be more balanced. That’s really important. Gotabaya…