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)....
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Explaining China’s Diffusion Deficit
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Analysis
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...
Pezeshkian and Iran’s Regional Policy: Continuity and Grappling with Structural Constraints
The recent election of Masoud Pezeshkian as Iran’s president has sparked speculation about the future of Iranian foreign policy,...
Slovakia’s Uncertain Future After the Assassination Attempt on Fico
The recent assassination attempt of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico represents the nadir of a long-developing crisis of societal...