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RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

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Analysis, commentary, and long-form research from the Council's scholars and practitioners

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OPINION

One Rule, Two Standards

Kosovo, Crimea, and the Binding Force of International Law

Aleksandar Jakovljević

ANALYSIS SERIES

Financing Global Resilience: Infrastructure and Capital in a Multipolar Order

A four-part series on who pays for the infrastructure the global economy depends on, and what happens when private returns fall short of strategic need. Read any one on its own, or follow the argument through to the end.

ANTON OSIN · SENIOR FELLOW

PART 1 · PUBLISHED

Financing Strategic Infrastructure: The Resilience Imperative

The infrastructure the global economy depends on is only as reliable as the capital behind it

PART 2 · PUBLISHED

Who Pays for Strategic Redundancy?

Financing resilience when private returns fall short of strategic needs the state must still meet

 FORTHCOMING IN THIS SERIES

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Financing Strategic Corridors: Connectivity, Statecraft, or Dependency?

Case studies on how financing, ownership and governance shape resilience, connectivity and strategic dependency

04

A Framework for Financing Resilience

A working framework for governments and investors, and a test for when financing strengthens shared access rather than rival networks

RESEARCH PAPERS

Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Talks and the United States South Caucasus Strategy

How a moment of bleak political realities produce a diplomatic opening, and what it would take to seize it

Omer Niazi

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Reimagining the Global Order

Why the postwar system needs transformation rather than another round of incremental reform

Khaled Emam

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AREAS OF FOCUS

Great Power Competition, International Security, and Conflicts

Great power rivalry · Emerging middle powers · Nuclear non-proliferation · Conflict resolution

International Law, Governance, and Politics

International legal order · Governance challenges · Democratic backsliding · International institutions

Public Policy and National Development

National development strategy · Sectoral development · Human capital · Health policy

Economic Statecraft, Energy Transition, and Trade

Economic competition · Sanctions · Energy transition · Critical minerals and supply chains

Emerging Technology, Digital Warfare, and Misinformation

Artificial intelligence · Cybersecurity · Disinformation · Weaponization of digital space

OPINION

Israel-Hamas Conflict: Lessons from Afghanistan

What twenty years of missed openings in Afghanistan suggest about the war in Gaza

Omer Niazi

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Azerbaijan-Armenia Peace Talks: The Status Quo and an Emerging Diplomatic Breakthrough

Three deadlocks stand between a framework agreement and a settlement: a constitution, a border, and a corridor

Omer Niazi

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Trump’s Board of Peace: An Alternative to Postwar Order?

A model of governance built on executive authority rather than collective authorization

Khaled Emam

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The Crypto Industry is ‘Tether’-ed to Illicit Finance. Here's How to Break the Chain

If Congress advances new rules on cryptocurrency, it must advance tighter anti-money laundering requirements

Omer Niazi

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EU Enlargement as Security Policy: The Case of North Macedonia

Why an accession stalled over identity and history has become a test of Western credibility

Landen Satterfield

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Offshore Tax Evasion is a Matter of Democracy

When assets move offshore, domestic law reaches its limit — and so does the promise that it binds everyone

Omer Niazi

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Fault Lines in Bangladesh's Political Journey Towards Democracy

Why mass movements keep producing new elites rather than durable democratic institutions

Nasif Khan

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PANELS AND FORUMS

Peace Negotiations and United States Strategy in South Caucasus

Russia’s war in Ukraine loosened Moscow’s hold on the South Caucasus and opened space for negotiation.

Omer Niazi

Trump's Foreign Policy and the Russia-Ukraine War

Whether the administration could end the war, and how any settlement would fit its contest with China

Omer Niazi

COMMENTARY

Tehran Increases Local Security and Strengthens Ties to Venezuela Amid Economic Crisis

Currency collapse pushed Tehran toward Caracas abroad

Omer Niazi

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Iranian Leaders Seek to Capitalize on the Expiration of the Arms Embargo

Weapons sales as revenue, and a conflict on the northern border Tehran could not afford to take sides in

Omer Niazi

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Iran Accelerates Nuclear Program Development

Underground infrastructure and advanced centrifuges as leverage ahead of a change of administration in Washington

Omer Niazi

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Prisoner Releases Will Empower Extremist Insurgencies

How prisoner releases in Afghanistan and Mali strengthened insurgent groups as Western counterterrorism capacity contracted

Omer Niazi

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