Inside Estonia’s Defense-Tech Ecosystem
This article is based principally on a report authored by Joel Burke and published by the National Defense Industry Association’s Emerging Technologies Institute in September 2024 titled, Inside...
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What a Harris or Trump Presidency Could Mean for the Baltic States
The following conversation was recorded on September 25, 2024 and was edited for clarity. Indra Ekmanis: Thank you everyone for joining me in this discussion today. As we all know, the US...
View ArticleContesting Russia: The Baltic Perspective
This week, Dr. Indra Ekmanis participated in a US Helsinki Commission briefing, “Contesting Russia: Lessons from Central & Eastern Europe.” Read her opening remarks below as she highlights how the...
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The Battle to Shape Trump’s China Policy
This week, the Wall Street Journal editorial board asked Donald Trump why China would not invade Taiwan on his watch. Trump told the Journal that the Chinese would not dare to invade. As Trump put it:...
View ArticleWho is the Kremlin’s Favored Candidate in the US Presidential Election?
As the US presidential election approaches, the Kremlin has been unusually dismissive of American politics, maintaining the appearance of skeptical disinterest, even as Vladimir Putin, apparently...
View ArticleIraqi Kurdistan’s Parliamentary Elections: Resilience, Challenges, and US...
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq finally held its long-overdue parliamentary elections on October 20, two years past the original due date. Final results announced by the Iraqi electoral commission on...
View ArticleFighting Ideologies: Lessons Learned from the War on Terror and Their...
This article was initially presented as a paper at the Post-9/11 Irregular Warfare Lessons Learned Conference in Annapolis, Maryland from September 17-18, 2024. The conference was sponsored by FPRI’s...
View ArticleLithuania’s Parliamentary Elections: Domestic and Foreign Policy
Lithuania’s Governing Coalition Battered in a General Election Lithuania’s general election has resulted in a crushing defeat for the incumbent center-right government, led by Ingrida Šimonytė. The...
View ArticleBeyond the Revolution: Building a New Bangladesh
Once touted as the “Iron Lady” of Asia, Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was both the longest-serving Bangladeshi head of state and the world’s longest-serving female. However, on...
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Narrative Intelligence: Detecting Chinese and Russian Information Operations...
Introduction As geopolitical conflicts are increasingly shaped by misleading and deceptive information, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) has become an indispensable tool in understanding adversarial...
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