International affairs
China's "digital natives." China's massive generational cohort of about 175 million people born in the 1990s and raised alongside mobile phones and the internet has fundamentally changed the country’s social structure, social space, and social connections, Cheng Li writes.
Ethiopia's conflict and the U.S. Vanda Felbab-Brown praises the design of the new U.S. sanctions regime aimed at ending Ethiopia's Tigray conflict but emphasizes that there are challenges ahead for ending the fighting and ameliorating famine.
Arms control. Writing in Defense One, Steven Pifer and Rep. Ami Bera argue that the United States should seek to negotiate an agreement with Russia to reduce both countries' nuclear weapons stockpiles.
Maritime trade. Bruce Jones joins David Dollar on the Dollar & Sense podcast to discuss evolutions in sea-based trade, including the growing size of container ships, threat of modern piracy, explosion of data flows, and the transformation of global value chains.
Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Marvin Kalb examines the possibility that jihadis in neighboring Pakistan could gain control of the country's nuclear arsenal.
