Khamenei’s Eclipse: Absolute Rule Crumbles into Paralysis and Infighting in Iran
…Bashar al-Assad, a long-time Iranian ally, in Syria. Underlining this strategic setback, Syria’s new president, Ahmed al Sharaa, visited the White House on Monday, the first Syrian leader ever to do so. Nuclear…
Accelerating Change But Not Necessarily an Inflection Point
…an inflection point, as they appear to be doing. China’s new period of slower economic growth and a shrinking population are forecasted to produce smaller and smaller increases in its…
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…
Harnessing AI to Move from Threat to Threat Reduction
…deploy chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons. Yet the AI sector has also become a new, unexpected but essential partner in mitigating these WMD risks, entering a space that…
Saudi Arabia and the UAE Compete to be Hubs for Regional Business
…New Arab, Al Jazeera Center for Studies, Middle East Monitor, Qantara, Amwaj.media, and The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. This is his first piece for Stimson. By Barbara Slavin,…
North Korea’s Integration of AI Across Cyber, Economic, and Military Domains
…operations related to North Korea (DPRK) at Google Mandiant, where he conducted in-depth research on APT43, APT45, and the broader DPRK IT worker threat. His career began in the U.S….
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…