The Defense Research Funding Environment: A Conversation
…security concerns and new opportunities that you could consider, new questions that might be better or more important to ask and answer. The lack of focus on the outcome of…
Nuclear Ambiguity in the Indian Ocean
…in a new, free online course from the Stimson Center’s Strategic Learning initiative, stem from a perceived need to enhance a nuclear arsenal’s survivability against an adversary’s first strike, i.e.,…
North Africa Weekly: December 10, 2025
…amid a broader Trump-era shift toward transactional, inward-focused foreign policy. NEWSGHANA EU envoy calls Ghana partnership indispensable amid Sahel crisis The EU’s Special Representative for the Sahel describes Ghana as…
Modi’s Farm Laws Repeal: A Rare Retreat
…that they have endured for decades and one introduced by an untrustworthy agent in New Delhi that they believed risked exposing them to new forms of exploitation, the farmers chose…
French Foreign, Defense, and National Security Policy: New Initiatives?
By Alix Boucher – Commissioned by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, two new White Papers—one on defense and national security policy, the other on foreign affairs—herald major change in France’s strategic…
Picking Up the Peaces: The UN’s Evolving Postconflict Roles
…act quickly during a crisis. Several agencies have emergency procedures designed to dispatch rapid response teams within 24 hours of a crisis. More than 90 percent of UN humanitarian agencies’…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, February 2021
…follow Russian Nuclear Security here. Analysis by Dmitry Kovechegin. Edited by Alexandra Sitdikova. The following news stories were pulled from Russian Nuclear Security news: Russian Nuclear Security news reported that…
Critical Minerals: The Not-So-Green Side of the Green Transition
…be done through cooperation to strengthen existing — or develop new — regulations, deepen accountability, and build justice frameworks, both for private companies and for state actors engaging in the…