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Iskander Rehman
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Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Applied history, grand strategy and Asian security.
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With thanks to Jim Mitre, Joel Predd, Matan Chorev, Ed Geist, Ankit Panda, Rebecca Hersman & Emma Borden for their thoughtful comments on earlier versions of this work.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Thanks Frank, very kind.
October 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Thank you, I will.
October 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Thanks!
October 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Thanks Emma—very kind.
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Thanks Shashank, I appreciate it! Theres more of my Rand work in the publication pipeline, hopefully it will come out in not too long.
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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And here in @warontherocks.bsky.social , looking more narrowly at the competition in AI
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The Battle for Brilliant Minds: From the Nuclear Age to AI
On December 18, 1944, Moe Berg — a Princeton graduate, Major League baseball star, and Office of Strategic Services operative — discreetly took his seat
warontherocks.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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he (age old) battle for talent importation is a topic near and dear to my heart. I’ve written about here in @engelsbergideas.bsky.social

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Battling for the best and brightest: immigration, great power rivalry, and the history of talent importation
Immigration, asylum and naturalisation policies have always been at the heart of great power competition. It is time for American policymakers to begin thinking about how a more enlightened approach t...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM