Analysis July 2, 2025 Foreign Influence is Fueling the War in Sudan By: Charles A. Ray The current war raging in Sudan began on April 15, 2023, with violent clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Two years later, the conflict shows no signs of abating, primarily due... Read more	Podcasts July 1, 2025 From Russia with Risk Here on the Bear Market Brief, a lot of what we focus on is, simply put, risk: what might happen, and what might it mean? On this episode, geoeconomic and country risk expert Rachel Ziemba joins Aaron Schwartzbaum to delve in the discipline... Read more	Analysis June 27, 2025 Covert Action: Evaluating the Future Leadership of US Strategic Covert Operations By: Philip Wasielewski, Doug Wise Two recent essays published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) rekindle interest in a perennial debate about whether covert action, particularly paramilitary operations, and other capabilities related... Read more
Podcasts June 25, 2025 Russian Political Warfare Operations in the Balkans The western Balkans, including Bosnia and Kosovo, were the scene of some of the bloodiest warfare and atrocities in Europe post-World War Two until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Approximately twenty-five years after the last of the fighting in the... Read more	Analysis June 25, 2025 Burkina Faso: The World’s Disinformation Lab is an International Security Disaster By: Raphael Parens Burkina Faso is many things. The country is considered to be the epicenter of global terrorism today. It is ranked number one on the Global Terrorism Index Scale (2024), marking the first time in the thirteen years since the... Read more	Analysis June 23, 2025 More African Nations Meet Trump Administration Travel Restrictions By: Michael Walsh Less than six months into his current term in office, President Donald Trump has already imposed visa and travel restrictions on nationals from eleven countries in North and Sub-Saharan Africa traveling to the United States. In official statements, the... Read more
Analysis June 17, 2025 Will Russia’s Political Warfare Operations in the Balkans Fuel Its Next War? By: Ivana Stradner, Peter LaBelle Russia’s Balkan Approaches Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia’s involvement in Eastern Europe has garnered greater attention. Unlike the brutal territorial conquest and destruction seen in Ukraine, Russia’s methods in southeastern Europe are more subtle,... Read more	Podcasts June 10, 2025 Part 2 \| Surviving Two Years in Russian Captivity In this special two part episode of Chain Reaction, Senior Fellow Rob Lee interviews Yevgeniy Malik, a squad leader in Ukraine’s 36th Marine Brigade. Malik fought in Mariupol during the beginning of the war and defended the Illich Iron... Read more	Reports June 6, 2025 Russia’s Use of the Instruments of Statecraft in the Indo-Pacific By: Alexander Korolev Introduction This report analyzes Russia’s use of diplomatic, military, and economic instruments of statecraft to advance its interests in the Indo-Pacific region and examines how China perceives it. As with all reports in this series, this one defines... Read more