Re-Balancing the Strategy of Tech Containment
America has a limited window of opportunity in its rivalry with China. To exploit this, expanded export controls can...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Re-Balancing the Strategy of Tech Containment
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Analysis
The Baltic Electricity Grid: Synchronizing Symphony
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have an enduring connection to their occupation by the Soviet Union...
Explaining China’s Diffusion Deficit
Debates about national scientific and technological power tend to center on which state first generates new-to-the-world breakthroughs (innovation capacity)....
What Ukraine’s Kursk Incursion Tells Us About Putin’s Russia
In early August, the Ukrainian army broke into Russia and, virtually undeterred, rapidly advanced seizing a significant area of...
Can Democracies Deliver? Thoughts Following the 2024 China-Africa Summit
It was disappointing to see so little in-depth discussion among the US national security community at the recent 2024...
Putinism and Russian Ideological Shifts
Apparently, the collapse of the USSR did not mean the end of the Cold War. It took less than...
Nuclear Energy Dependence in the Indo-Pacific
The war in Ukraine has underscored the dangers of energy reliance on Russia for US national security. However, while...
The Use of Economic Statecraft to Achieve Geopolitical Ends
With headlines dominated by geopolitical events, policymakers overlook the true threat to US success—the dollar as the world’s global...
Ukraine and the Frontlines of the War on Disinformation
On July 8, a Russian Kh-101 rocket flew into a children’s hospital in the center of Kyiv. On July...
The West’s Loss of the Sahel: Not (only) Russia’s Doing
After a bit more than two years, Russia’s disinformation campaigns in Africa’s Sahel region look like the quickest propaganda...