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October 19, 2012

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Deja Vu in Egypt?, Lebanese Security, and Jihadists in Syria

Ibrahim El-Houdaiby wonders if Egypt’s Islamists will make the same mistakes as previous regimes. Qifa Nabki offers an interesting profile of Wissam al-Hassan, the head of Lebanon’s Information Bran…

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December 1, 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa
World AIDS Day 2016 in South Africa

Thursday, December 1, is World AIDS Day, a fitting occasion to call attention to an HIV vaccine clinical trial that has started in South Africa. The vaccine being tested is based on one used in a Tha…

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November 29, 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa’s Wounded President Zuma Survives

Over the weekend of November 27, Jacob Zuma faced his greatest political challenge to date, a vote of ‘no-confidence’ from within his own party, the African National Congress (ANC). He had previously…

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October 19, 2009

Grand Strategy
Keynote I: China’s Rise: Strategic Implications for Asia

SIMON TAY: Good morning everyone. I'm Simon Tay. It is my pleasure to be here, and thank you very much Liz and Randy for inviting me. I want to say a few words before I introduce the speaker Aaron …

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April 24, 2020

Cybersecurity
Cyber Week in Review: April 24, 2020

Experts criticize German-led digital contact tracing initiative; Supreme Court will hear case on Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; Facebook bans some events that violate social distancing rules; Microsof…

A demonstrator protests the extension of the emergency Safer at Home order by State Governor Tony Evers to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease.

June 10, 2022

Global
The World Next Week: What to Read and Listen to This Summer

The annual summer entertainment recommendations from The World Next Week podcast.

Three books next to each other on a light blue background. From left to right: Putin's People, by Catherine Belton; Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe; and The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, by Michael Mandelbaum.