American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC)

Watch AFPC's Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program Program Director Laura Linderman's recent testimony before the U.S. Helsinki Commission on Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary election with regard to the country’s choices on peace, security, regional integration, and democracy amid ongoing normalization efforts with neighbors, unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh tensions, and potential Russian influence. [starts at 5:09]

Briefing—Armenia’s Election: Peace, Pressure, and What Comes Next Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary election takes place as Yerevan weighs difficult choices about peace, security, and regional integration. The vote comes as ...

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June 17, 2026 - SUMMIT XIV: UKRAINE'S WARTIME REPORT CARD - YEAR FIVE

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International Republican Institute (IRI) National Democratic Institute, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation Congressional Office for International Leadership Center for US-Ukrainian Relations

Summit XIV: Ukraine’s Wartime Report Card | American Foreign Policy Council The American Foreign Policy Council is a non-profit U.S. foreign policy think tank operating in Washington, D.C., since 1982.

NEW AFPC SPECIAL REPORT!

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has accelerated population decline in its resource-rich outlying regions, which are dying off faster than the rest of the country. These areas power the nation’s oil, gas, and timber industries, making them both economic engines and human reservoirs. As working-age men are killed or sent to the front, labor shortages in vital industries deepen. Replacing these workers is increasingly difficult: rising xenophobia and legal barriers push migrants away, while improving conditions in Central Asia reduce the flow of foreign labor to Russia.

Click below to read AFPC Junior Fellow Lindsey Cliff's full report!

https://tinyurl.com/44v2emxz

SAVE THE DATE! June 17, 2026 - SUMMIT XIV: UKRAINE'S WARTIME REPORT CARD - YEAR FIVE
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Information Warfare Watch 54
The SVR takes over Prigozhin's influence network;
Taiwan faces an information offensive;
A new (Canadian) tool again Russian disinformation;
Iran keeps loyal voices online

"It’s the most important story that most people aren’t watching.

Late last month, Islamist militants affiliated with Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), an al-Qaeda affiliate active in Africa’s lawless Sahel region, spearheaded a series of coordinated attacks across the nation of Mali. Over the span of two days, the group – working in tandem with ethnic Tuareg separatists – struck military targets in and around the capital, Bamako, hit the country’s international airport, seized the northern city of Kidal, and assassinated the country’s defense minister." Read AFPC senior vice president Ilan Berman's latest for Forbes.

Mali’s Jihadist Surge Should Be A Wake Up Call | American Foreign Policy Council The American Foreign Policy Council is a non-profit U.S. foreign policy think tank operating in Washington, D.C., since 1982.

Indo-Pacific Monitor No. 54

Jakarta walks a fine line om airspace ambiguity;
Tokyo to diversity its defense trade;
Iran war sparks an Asian pivot to coal;
A changing of the guard in Myanmar?;
(Re)naming the seas
https://tinyurl.com/yk3bskj2

China Policy Monitor No. 1676
Beijing blames "foreign forces" for youth malaise;
Tehran and Beijing affirm strategic partnership ahead of Trump visiit;
Taiwan indicts former news host for PRC espionage;
Two former Defense Ministers receive suspended death sentences;
Over a million corruption cases investigated in 2025
https://tinyurl.com/mfsp3pu6

Russia Policy Monitor 2727
Moscow preys on the mentally infirm;
Putin's growing paranoia;
Russia's shadow fleet takes the sky...;
..as its mercenaries struggle in Mali
https://tinyurl.com/yc2v4cue

Africa Political Monitor No. 64
An ominous convergence destabilizes Mali;
A grim anniversary in Sudan;
DRC as a safehaven;
The return of Somali piracy
https://tinyurl.com/2cxhvp5j