Podcasts May 22, 2025 What E-Estonia Can Teach the US Technologist Joel Burke is the author of the recently published Rebooting a Nation: The Incredible Rise of Estonia, E-Government and the Startup Revolution. He shares his insight into the country’s rise as a leader in e-government, technological exports in... Read more	Analysis May 15, 2025 US Anti-Terrorism Cases Against MTN Group Put Multinationals in Peril By: Michael Walsh In April 2025, legal scholars raised concerns about the ongoing Iran-related terrorism cases against the MTN Group in the US court system. Professor Jeffrey Breinholt of George Washington University even went so far as to express his belief that... Read more	Analysis May 8, 2025 Navigating Turbulent Waters: Does Zimbabwe Have a Future? By: Charles A. Ray Zimbabwe, once hailed as the breadbasket of Africa, is now grappling with profound political and economic challenges. Recent efforts by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reset relations with the United States and the internal political rift that seems to be... Read more
Analysis May 1, 2025 A New Office of Strategic Services? By: J.R. Seeger Introduction In the past six months, two different opinion pieces, here and here, have raised the possibility of reviving the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). These recommendations are by no means new. Over the past 80 years, there have... Read more	Podcasts May 1, 2025 You Don’t Know Until You Go: Views of the US From European Capitals Persistent reports indicate that the Trump Administration will de-emphasize the US commitment to European security in favor of an emphasis on defending the US homeland and shifting resources to the Indo-Pacific. This follows a long-running critique of America’s... Read more	Expert Commentary April 30, 2025 Charting the End State for US Strategy Toward China By: Michael Beckley, Connor Fiddler, Aaron Glasserman, Jaehan Park, Takuya Matsuda, Brendan Flynn As the new Trump administration formulates its China strategy, defining clear end states will be essential to avoid a reactive or incoherent approach. A long-term rivalry with a peer competitor like China demands more than tactical responses—it requires a... Read more
Analysis April 29, 2025 LEO Wars: China’s Orbital Challenge to the US-Led Digital Order By: Shannon Vaughn Executive Summary China’s rapid advancement in low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet technology represents a direct challenge to global US operations, communications infrastructure, and the free flow of information. Leveraging BeiDou’s Navigation Satellite System (BDS), Beijing’s Global Positioning System... Read more	Conversations April 22, 2025 The Feminists Defending Ukraine By: Ben Gardner-Gill, Gražina Bielousova Ben Gardner-Gill: Hello, and welcome to Baltic Ways. I’m your co-host, Ben Gardner-Gill. Today we’re talking with Gražina Belousova. Gražina is a feminist scholar of race, religion, and gender in post-Soviet Europe. She earned her PhD from Duke... Read more	Analysis April 21, 2025 How the UK-Mauritius Deal on Chagos Could Reshape US Military Strategy in the Indian Ocean By: Raghvendra Kumar Introduction: The Context Diego Garcia, an atoll and one of the largest of the 52 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is geographically part of the Chagos Archipelago — a British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which is... Read more