The Evening: Another War, Stocks Drop, Glastonbury, and More

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Good Evening,

It's Tuesday, September 13th.

Another War

Fighting erupted Tuesday between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the latest flare-up in their decades-long armed standoff over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus. The clashes raised the prospect of Russia becoming embroiled in another war near its borders, as the NYT reports

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Stocks Suffer Worst Day Since 2020

Stocks suffered their worst day in more than two years after hotter-than-expected inflation data dashed investors’ hopes that cooling price pressures would prompt the Federal Reserve to moderate its campaign of interest-rate increases, as the WSJ reports

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Ukrainian Offensive

As Ukraine continues to liberate swathes of territory in the east, Ukrainian presidential military adviser Oleksiy Arestovych says the counteroffensive has “slowed down slightly,” as CNN reports

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Executive Education

Wargaming: Constructing Simulations and Competitive Strategy Exercises

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is Washington’s innovative, new course for mid-to senior-level professionals responsible for designing, managing, and interpreting the results of wargames and other strategic simulations.

Video Shorts

Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Data Unpacked,” “Testify,” “What's Happening,” “Preview,” and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel

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In That Number

$300 million

Russia has secretly funneled at least $300 million to foreign political parties and candidates in more than two dozen countries since 2014, according to a new U.S. intelligence review.

Source: The Washington Post

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Critical Quote

“The resilience and spirit of Ukrainians is impressive... They were told that there is no Ukraine.”

— Hanna Malyar, Ukraine's deputy minister of defense

iDeas Lab

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A new CSIS digital feature

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unpacks the key steps to success in implementing zero trust architecture and endpoint security in online government systems.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.

Optics

(Photo credit: Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images.) A bike rider cycles past a building partially destroyed by a missile strike in the center of Kharkiv, on September 13, 2022.

Recommended Reading

“North Korea States It Will Never Give Up Nuclear Weapons

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” by CSIS's Ellen Kim.

This Town Tomorrow

At 9:00 a.m.

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​​​​​​, the CSIS Economics Program hosts a panel on the merits and challenges of a G7 Climate Club.

Later, at 1:30 p.m.

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, Brookings hosts a conversation about opportunities and challenges for expanding supply chains in North America.

And, at 3:30 p.m.

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, the Wilson Center holds a discussion on "Terrorism in Africa: State of Play and Solutions" as part of the 2022 Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Annual Conference.

Video

Yesterday, the CSIS Interpret: China project hosted a discussion of the Global Development Initiative with leading experts who leveraged newly translated Chinese language documents to unpack this topic. Watch the full video here.

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Podcasts

CSIS's Nicholas Szechenyi joins Victor Cha to unpack Japanese Prime Minister Abe's death, implications of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japanese defense security reform, and trilateral cooperation between the United States, Japan, and Korea.

Listen on Spotify

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& Apple Podcasts

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Smiles

I can’t help it but I’m still annoyed that Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner told Maureen Dowd that rock is dead and that it isn’t coming back. I know Wenner has a new memoir to sell and all of that, but please, let’s get a grip. Take a look at this clip of Jack White performing at Glastonbury last June and then tell me rock and roll is dead

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The Evening is my daily guide to key insights CSIS brings to the events of the day. It is composed with the External Relations team: Paige Montfort, Claire Dannenbaum, and Claire Smrt.

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