WASHINGTON—On a night in 1998, an engineer from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and his wife went to the movie theater and watched Will Smith star in Enemy of the State, a film that features wide-area surveillance systems. “Where everyone else in the audience was no doubt terrified by what they saw on the screen, he […]
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Report: Saudi Arabia Increases Aid, Influence in Pakistan
Saudi Arabia continues offering economic aid to Pakistan in hopes of spreading its Sunni Islam influence across the Arab world as it also pursues an anti-Iran agenda, according to a recent Brookings Institution report. Author Madiha Afzal, visiting fellow on foreign policy, global economy, and development at Brookings, noted that Saudi Arabia has been fostering […]
Bookshelf: Revisiting Kissinger’s DIPLOMACY After 25 Years
From Claremont Review of Books Digital This year marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Henry Kissinger’s Diplomacy. With the exception of his superb three-volume memoirs of his service as national security adviser and secretary of state to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford—White House Years (1979), Years of Upheaval (1982), and Years of Renewal (1999)—Diplomacy is Kissinger’s best book. […]
Raisi Groomed as Successor to Iran Supreme Leader
Hojjat ol Eslam Embrahim Raisi, tapped in March to head Iran’s judiciary, is now considered the favorite to be the next Iranian supreme leader, according to an American Enterprise Institute report released in June. Prior to his judicial appointment by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kahmenei, Raisi was custodian and a chairman of Astan Quds Razavi, […]
China Forcing Taiwan to Rethink Defense, Economic Strategies
WASHINGTON—China’s continued rise as a superpower has forced Taiwan to rethink its defense and economic strategies to respond to growing threats from the mainland. Taiwanese and American scholars discussed these developments and evaluated the current state of U.S.- Taiwan relations at the Heritage Foundation on June 12. I-Chung Lai, president of the Prospect Foundation, a […]