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Russia

• The CE and the Belgium Terrorist Plot
• Russian Officials Offer Data on Counter-Jihadism Operations in 2010
• CE Amir Dokku Umarov Discusses Fitna (Sedition), the CE’s Place in the Global Jihad, and...

In this report, Fred McGoldrick writes it is hard to know what is more disturbing—Iran’s continued defiance of UN Security Council Resolutions ordering Tehran to cease its uranium enrichment activities and to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency...

The people of Southern Sudan are a little more than one month away from casting their votes in a referendum on whether to remain part of Sudan or become an independent state. The referendum is the most significant milestone in a six-year interim period that began with the...

As Kyrgyzstan plunges into crisis and the threat of a second Afghanistan in Central Asia looms large, the situation in the “Big Caucasus” seems less pressing and thus overshadowed. The worst scenarios predicted by analysts and politicians for the period of the...

After a decade of negotiations revolving around regional monetary cooperation, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus China, Japan, and South Korea (ASEAN + 3) finally reached agreement to establish a regional foreign reserve pool in February 2009. The...

The North Koreans are escalating the situation in order to convince the Americans and the South Koreans that refusing to have nuclear and peace talks with Pyongyang will be costly. Pyongyang is trying to force Washington and Seoul to change their course and come back to the...

Economic difficulties in Iran have been increasing, partially due to Western sanctions but mostly due to economic mismanagement and corruption by the regime. Iranian policymakers will soon need to rescind and remove subsidies on products as varied as gasoline, bread, sugar,...

On November 12, nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker and his Stanford University colleagues John Lewis and Robert Carlin were taken on a tour of the recently updated Yongbyon Nuclear Complex in North Korea. They were shown an under-construction experimental light-water...

The Department of Defense issued a new version of its semi annual “1230” report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan on November 23, 2010.1 This report came out...

Q1: What are Haitians voting for on November 28, 2010?

A1: National elections will take place on Sunday, November 28, for a new Haitian president and a new 99-member Parliament, plus 11 members of the 30-seat Senate. The latter...