CIGA Staff

CIGA Staff

China’s Belt and Road Initiative and US Middle East Policy

Author: Charles W. Dunne Affiliation: Arab Center, Washington DC, USA Organization/Publisher: Arab Center, Washington DC, USA Date/Place: January 13, 2020/USA Type of Literature: Report Word Count: 2358 Link: Keywords:  Chinese Assertiveness, Security Umbrella, Economic agreements, Strategic Thinking Brief:  The…

A New Estimate of China’s Military Expenditure

Authors: Dr. Nan Tian and Fei Su Affiliation: SIPRI Organization/Publisher: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Date/Place: January 2021/Stockholm, Sweden Type of Literature: Report Number of Pages: 38 Link: Keywords: China, Security, Defense, Budget, Arms Race, Military expenditure, SIPRI Brief:…

What Hannah Arendt Would Do About Trump’s Former Bureaucrats

Authors: Kathryn Brackney, Terence Renaud  Affiliation: Harvard University, Yale University Organization/Publisher: Foreign Policy Date/Place: December 23, 2020/USA Type of Literature: Argument Word Count:  1673 Link: Keywords: USA, Trump, Bureaucratic Politics, Malfeasance, Hannah Arendt Brief:  The authors elaborate on Hannah…

Pak-U.S. Relations: Resetting the Terms of Engagement

Author: CSSPR  Affiliation: University of Lahore  Organization/Publisher: Center for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR), University of Lahore Date/Place: November 16, 2020/Pakistan  Type of Literature: Policy Brief  Number of Pages: 5 Link:   Keywords: US, Pakistan, China, CPEC, Afghanistan, Nuclear weapons  Brief: This policy brief presents where Pakistan and the USA’s…

The Hagia Sophia Case

Author: Harvard Law Review Organization/Publisher: Harvard Law Review Date/Place: January 11, 2021/USA Type of Literature: Analysis Word Count: 3400 Link: Keywords: Turkey, Hagia Sophia, UNESCO, Property law, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Waqf, Hanafi Fiqh Brief: For its…