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From Likes to Violence: How Big Tech is Helping Fuel Extremism

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Could Big Tech's failure to moderate social media be fueling violence and extremism in Kenya and beyond?

An iPhone displays the apps for Facebook
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Tech and Science

Watching US Military Assistance in Africa Go up in Smoke

In the News
Crashing the War Party
Coauthors

Elizabeth Shackelford and Emma Sanderson join the podcast to unpack a new report on why US-Africa policy isn't working.

Nigerian special forces and Chadian troops participate with US advisors in the Flintlock exercise
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US Foreign Policy

Generational Attitudes in a New Nuclear Age

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

Millennials and Gen Z are less confident in the effectiveness and utility of nuclear weapons than Boomers and Gen X.

Young people pose in front of an Oppenheimer movie poster
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Public Opinion

Building an Inclusive National Security Workforce

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Impact Stories by Shannon Gonzalez

The Council and Girl Security partnered to engage the next generation of women in national security.

Young woman talking into a microphone. Inclusion and Equity

Sahel in Crisis: Niger's Coup and the Failure of Western Intervention

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Explore the Sahel's alarming pattern of coups as we unravel the threads behind Niger's recent crisis.

With the headquarters of the ruling party burning in the back, supporters of mutinous soldiers demonstrate in Niamey, Niger, Thursday, July 27 2023.
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Defense and Security

Most Americans Don’t Know Much about Nuclear Weapons. But They Want to Know More

In the News
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Coauthors

Dina Smeltz and Sharon Weiner unpack results from a recent Council-Carnegie Corporation of New York Survey.

 a visitor to the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos, N.M. examines a replica of the gadget
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Public Opinion

Do Nukes Make the US Safer? Americans Are Unsure

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Running Numbers by Libby Berry

While the public believes nuclear weapons are an effective tool in deterring aggression, less than half say they make the country more secure.

the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site
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US Foreign Policy

Case Studies: US Military Assistance in Africa Doesn't Work

In the News
Responsible Statecraft
Coauthors

A new Council report argues the recent series of coups across the Sahelian region should prompt a major reassessment of US military assistance.

Master Sgt. Todd Chandler leads a group discussion from the Burkina Faso air force at Airbase 511
US Air Force
US Foreign Policy

Lessons in Security and Diplomacy 25 Years After the US Embassy Bombings

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

We explore how the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya forever changed the way the US government protects its representatives abroad.

A view of the United States Embassy, left, and other damaged buildings in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on Aug. 8, 1998 the day after terrorist bombs in Kenya.
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US Foreign Policy

Most Americans Are Uncomfortable with the Policy of Nuclear Sole Authority

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Running Numbers by Lama El Baz

Sixty-one percent of the US public is uneasy with only the president having the power to authorize the use of nuclear weapons.

A military aide carries the "President's emergency satchel," also known as "the football," which contains nuclear launch codes
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US Foreign Policy