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๐ฃ Call for Papers: 2026 Evidence to Policy Symposium.
#IGAD invites submissions for the 2026 Evidence to Policy Symposium on Advancing Refugee Economic Inclusion in East Africa, taking place 11โ12 November 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Researchers, practitioners, policy analysts, refugee-led organisations, and institutions are invited to submit papers or abstracts on:
๐ฐ Financial Inclusion & Micro-enterprises
๐ผ Jobs, Labour Markets & Skills Development
๐ Deadline: 30 June 2026
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๐ Share your research. Shape policy. Drive impact.
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๐จ Applications for the 2026 edition of the #ADEL Program are now open!
๐ฃ Are you a young leader aged 25-35 from #Africa or the wider #AtlanticBasin? Donโt miss one of our flagship initiatives: the Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders Program!
โณ Deadline: June 14
๐ The @ADEL_PCNS program will take place in #Rabat, #Morocco, from December 6-12, 2026.
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The Politics & Geopolitics books that explain why the world works the way it does:
- The Prince โ Machiavelli
- The Art of War โ Sun Tzu
- Diplomacy โ Henry Kissinger
- The Grand Chessboard โ Zbigniew Brzezinski
- 1984 โ George Orwell
- The Origins of Totalitarianism โ Hannah Arendt
- Prisoners of Geography โ Tim Marshall
- The Clash of Civilizations โ Samuel Huntington
- On China โ Henry Kissinger
- The Silk Roads โ Peter Frankopan
- Why Nations Fail โ Acemoglu & Robinson
- The Dictator's Handbook โ Bueno de Mesquita
- The Fate of Rome โ Kyle Harper
- Destined for War โ Graham Allison
- How Democracies Die โ Levitsky & Ziblatt
- The Road to Serfdom โ Friedrich Hayek
- Blowback โ Chalmers Johnson
- The End of History โ Francis Fukuyama
- The Guns of August โ Barbara Tuchman
- World Order โ Henry Kissinger
- Sapiens โ Yuval Noah Harari
- The Sleepwalkers โ Christopher Clark
- The Shock Doctrine โ Naomi Klein
- The Tragedy of Great Power Politics โ Mearsheimer
- Power and Plenty โ Findlay & O'Rourke
- The Fate of Empires โ John Glubb
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- This policy brief analyzes the pre-war drivers, key strategic aspirations of the actors involved, and post-war trajectories of the 2026 U.S.-Israel-Iran war. The scope of the war has engulfed the entire region and would shape new regional realities after the end of hostilities. The complex nature of regional dynamics means the future order would be shaped by enduring structural drivers and a limited number of high-impact uncertainties. The future of Middle Eastern geostrategic order after the end of the war would not converge towards a single, strategic equilibrium.
- The war was not triggered by a single incident but resulted from a convergence of several factors: collapse of nuclear diplomacy, intensifying regional rivalries, and the normalization of force as statecraft. The Strait of Hormuz emerged as a central economic and geopolitical flashpoint, while Israelโs regional military posture and Washingtonโs regime-change ambitions further escalated tensions. The issue of Iranโs nuclear programme underlay the U.S.-Iran tensions.
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#US #Pakistan #Iran
๐ข Call for Policy Papers!
The Horn and Red Sea Security Forum invites researchers, analysts, diplomats, and policy thinkers to contribute impactful policy research focused on promoting peaceful coexistence and cooperative security across the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea, and the Middle East.
๐ Submit your abstract and be part of shaping critical regional conversations.
๐ Learn more: https://t.co/Y5zbvtY5ot
๐ง Send submissions to: [email protected]
๐ Deadline: Wednesday, 10th June 2026
#CallForPapers #PolicyResearch #HornOfAfrica #RedSea #MiddleEast #Security #RegionalOrder #Forum #Somaliland
The State Dept released a memo recently describing what it calls a new counter-disinformation initiative โ but I work in cognitive security, and I can recognize cognitive warfare when I see it. And I see it in the State Deptโs plan.
My latest (link in next tweet):
BOOK TALK: Who were the professors who went to CIA in 1950 to reboot the Agency's strategic intelligence product? How did they feel about the requirement to provide warning and long-range estimates of global trends? Find out at Georgetown on Mon March 30 at 2.30pm. @Georgetown_UP
โTo understand how liberalism works in international politics, itโs necessary to understand how it interacts with nationalism and realism, both of which profoundly affect the interactions among states.โ
Iran is still blocking the Strait of Hormuz, where around 20% of the world's daily oil supplies usually pass through. Oil and gas prices have surged, with the International Energy Agency calling it the largest supply disruption in history.
Al Jazeeraโs Julide Ayger explains.
Pankaj Mishra on Alexander Zevinโs book: โThe Economist emerges as a force that โ thanks to the military, cultural and economic power of Britain and, later, America โ can truly be said to have made the modern world, if not in the way that many liberals would suppose.โ
After a week of global markets roiled by conflict in the #PersianGulf, my #WeekendRead is @Yale Prof. @OAWestadโs new short book about Great Power competition in the period before World War I, which he describes as โan era that in many ways is so remarkably similar to our own.โ
For the rest of the world, the costs and risks of a prolonged conflict are stark โ not just in the Middle East but around the globe. An immediate ceasefire is the priority. https://t.co/RPH9hhQ69m