Northeast Nigeria’s Growing Insecurity Threatens Humanitarian Aid Workers and Civilians
  Bottom Line Up Front In the last 12 months alone, a total of 24 aid workers have been killed by non-state armed groups operating in the region. Attacks against aid workers in northeast...
Return of the Quad: The Evolving Security Architecture of the Indo-Pacific
  Bottom Line Up Front The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, comprising the United States, India, Japan, and Australia, has reemerged in recent years in response to an increasingly...
Gulf Rift Defies Resolution
  Bottom Line up Front The Trump administration is pushing to resolve the three-year old rift between Qatar and several of its Gulf neighbors before the November U.S. election. An end to the...
Implications of Iran Arms Ban Expiration
  Bottom Line up Front The October 2020 expiration of the U.N. ban on arms transfers to and from Iran would have little material impact on the strategic threat posed by Iran. Iran’s economic...
Syria Spiraling Downward as Economy Tumbles and Instability Spreads
  Bottom Line Up Front Even as Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad appears closer to prevailing in the country’s nearly decade-long civil war, there are new signs of instability amidst a tanking...