PUBLICATIONS

This week's policy monitor digs into recent events in South Sudan. Increased "violence and instability would put even more pressure on an already strained South Sudan — and could be the last straw for the country's fragile peace agreement.""

With a final Afghanistan withdrawal nearing, questions remain about what US security assistance will look like after the drawdown. The Security Assistance Monitor's new brief on the first post-drawdown budget request for the ANDSF tries to answer those questions.

This week's policy monitor examines the third COVID wave in Africa, perilously low vaccination rates, and what this may mean for the future of the continent.

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the United States share a long-standing security partnership that
began in 1957 and has amounted to approximately $22 billion in direct U.S. foreign assistance over the past sixty years. Accordingly, Jordan plays an outsized role in U.S. security policy in the MENA region, with
successive U.S. administrations seeing Amman as a stabilizing security presence in the region and a
key partner on a range of issues including Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the war in Syria, and the counter-ISIS mission.

This Issue Brief aims to take the first steps to contribute to the fledgling
discourse by highlighting key policy questions that the proliferation of transparency-based responses to foreign influence campaigns raise and will raise. In particular, the focus will be on issues that they must seek to resolve in order to offer balanced but effective outcomes in the modern democratic context.

This week's monitor examines how the cyber-surveillance scandal, The Pegasus Project, has impacted Africa at large.

This week's monitor explores the ongoing insurgency in Mozambique and the role of foreign military involvement. "Without substantial efforts to improve service delivery, provide humanitarian relief, and address local concerns, further militarization will only exacerbate Mozambique's insecurity."

This week's monitor examines South Sudan's decade of misrule, human rights violations, and ethnic conflicts following its independence in 2011, and looks cautiously towards the future.

Our Africa Program's latest situation tracker analyzes the implications of a complex conflict in Libya and how the international community has responded as we look to December’s elections and the withdrawal of foreign fighters in Libya.

Four Saudis who participated in the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi reportedly
received paramilitary training in the United States in 2017. This case has highlighted the ongoing
training the U.S. government and defense contractors provide for members of Saudi Arabia’s military
and raised questions about the vetting of participants.