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Sudan’s Civil Society Laying the Groundwork for Sustained PeaceSupporting Sudanese agency in the ongoing conflict will boost confidence-building measures for a sustained peace.
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Cyber Week in Review: September 22, 2023UK Parliament passes Online Safety Bill; Countries announce new AI funding commitments; Ireland fines TikTok $370 million; Ransomware attack hits Colombian government; International Criminal Court says it was hacked.
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How Much Aid Has the U.S. Sent Ukraine? Here Are Six Charts.Six graphics illustrate the extraordinary level of support the United States has provided Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.
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Zelenskyy in Washington, Spain Tries to Form a Government, UN Spotlights Nuclear Weapons, and MoreUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with U.S. President Joe Biden and members of Congress to ensure continued U.S. military aid amid Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russia; the Spanish parliament attempts to choose a prime minister, with both Alberto Núñez Feijóo and serving President Pedro Sánchez reliant on smaller fringe parties to secure a majority; the United Nations observes the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons despite the continuing global prevalence of nuclear weapons; and relations between Canada and India are frayed after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India of ordering the death of prominent Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
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Ukraine’s 2023 Counteroffensive, With Max BootMax Boot, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies at CFR and a columnist for the Washington Post, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the progress Ukraine is making in its ongoing effort to retake the territory Russia seized in its 2022 invasion.
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What Is ASEAN?The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a regional organization that brings together disparate neighbors to address economic and security issues, but the group’s impact remains limited.
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Cyber Week in Review: September 15, 2023FTC says X violated consent decree; Hackers shut down MGM systems; Senators host AI summit; U.S. appeals court invalidates most of disinformation injunction; Advisory group pushes back on Global Digital Compact.
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A Vision for Sustainable Development With Linda Thomas-GreenfieldU.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield discusses the Sustainable Development Goals, avoiding the cynicism trap, and ways the United States and the United Nations can work together to increase peace and prosperity at home and across the world.
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Azerbaijan’s Pressure on Nagorno-Karabakh: What to KnowAzerbaijan appears to have eased a blockade that had cut off food and medical supplies to the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, but there are still heightened concerns about conditions facing more than one hundred thousand civilians there.
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Cyber Week in Review: September 8, 2023OGP Summit meets in Estonia; Mudge joins CISA; UK will not break end to end encryption; EU designates gatekeepers under Digital Markets Act; DEF CON Generative Red Team Challenge concludes.
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Women This Week: Investigation into Unwanted World Cup Kissing ScandalWelcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers August 26 to September 1.
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Petro’s Total Peace Plan Turns One: The Good, the Bad, and the UglyPetro’s peace plan is neither a total failure nor a total success, for now.
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The President’s Inbox Recap: China’s Nuclear ForcesChina continues to expand its nuclear arsenal.
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There’s A Cop In My Pocket: Policymakers Need to Stop Advocating Surveillance by Default.Encryption, cybersecurity, and technology policies, like the RESTRICT and EARN-IT Acts, with nonexistent tradeoffs address symptoms, not problems, and they do it badly.
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Who Killed Yevgeny Prigozhin?Numerous competing theories are likely to surface about the demise of the Russian paramilitary commander—all of which help explain Vladimir Putin’s Russia.