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The New Challenge of Communist Corporate Governance
January 15, 2021 The Chinese Communist Party is advancing a new model of corporate governance that seeks to insert the Party directly into certain corporate decisions and increase its overall supervision of the domestic economy.

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Drivers of Recovery: Elevating the Youth, Peace, and Security Agenda
January 13, 2021 | Erol Yayboke, Janina Staguhn This brief examines the challenges youth face during the Covid-19 pandemic in fragile contexts, provides examples of youth-led recovery efforts, and identifies opportunities for the Biden administration to reinvigorate U.S. leadership on youth, peace, and security issues.

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Stabilization Assistance amid Geopolitical Competition: A Case Study of Eastern Syria
January 12, 2021 | Daphne McCurdy Using eastern Syria as a case study, this CSIS brief examines how U.S. stabilization assistance can potentially serve as a tool in geopolitical competition by supporting locally legitimate political actors to stand up against external meddling.

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Deep Dive Debrief: Strategic Stability and Competition in the Arctic
January 6, 2021 | Rebecca Hersman, Eric Brewer, Maxwell Simon This brief focuses on the implications of climate, economic, and political trends in the Arctic region for strategic stability, great power competition, and nuclear stability, policy, and posture. It is the third in the Project on Nuclear Issues Deep Dive Debrief series.

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Rethinking Crisis Responses in the Sahel
December 22, 2020 | Judd Devermont, Marielle Harris The conflict in the Sahel is entering its tenth year, and the region has never been further from peace. Judd Devermont and Marielle Harris urge regional and international stakeholders to re-assess and revalidate their strategies in the region.

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Central Bank Digital Currency, Design Choices, and Impacts on Currency Internationalization
December 18, 2020 | Stephanie Segal, Pearl Risberg Digital currencies have emerged as important innovations with potentially large impacts on the international monetary and financial system. Finding international alignment on CBDC architecture, infrastructure, and rules is critical given the rapid pace of innovation and the...

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The Importance of Marginalized Communities in Lebanon
December 14, 2020 | Natasha Hall CSIS’s Natasha Hall discusses the compounding crises impacting all Lebanese, but particularly its most vulnerable, marginalized communities. Hall explains why policymakers should take note and provides recommendations to improve conditions in the near term.

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Huawei, HONOR, and China’s Evolving State Capitalist Tool Kit
December 11, 2020 | Scott Livingston Huawei’s recent sale of its HONOR smartphone to a nominally private company demonstrates the blurring of public and private sector in support of CCP objectives, an approach that is one element of China’s evolving economic model that we call “CCP Inc.”

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U.S. Nuclear Warhead Modernization and “New” Nuclear Weapons
December 10, 2020 | Rebecca Hersman, Joseph Rodgers The brief examines the debate surrounding the development of U.S. nuclear warheads and whether the United States is creating “new” nuclear weapons. It examines the expansion of U.S. nuclear warhead capabilities and its implications for the U.S.-UK and NATO relations.

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Five Types of International Cooperation for Missile Defense
December 9, 2020 The United States has long worked with its allies on missile defense cooperation. Yet as missile threats proliferate, international cooperation has become increasingly important.

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Department of Defense Other Transaction Authority Trends: A New R&D Funding Paradigm?
December 8, 2020 | Rhys McCormick Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements are an increasingly popular tool across the Department of Defense as the United States seeks ways to maintain technological superiority against global competitors. This brief examines the recent trends in OTA usage across the...

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Climate Solutions Series: Decarbonizing the Built Environment
November 30, 2020 | Stephen J. Naimoli In the fifth brief of the Climate Solutions Series, the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program investigates the technologies and policies necessary to deeply decarbonize the buildings sector.

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