Africa: How Climate Change, Aid & Security Can Help President Biden Re-Engage Africa
Despite dire predictions, the Trump Administration's overall policy toward Africa represented continuity. Foreign aid continued; skilled diplomats were appointed...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Africa: How Climate Change, Aid & Security Can Help President Biden Re-Engage Africa
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Analysis
Biden Faced His First Taiwan Test. Now What?
Only days after his inauguration on January 20, President Joseph Biden faced one of his first foreign policy tests...
German-Style Autonomous Nationalism Comes to the United States
On the Friday following his inauguration, President Joseph Biden ordered Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to conduct a...
Taking Flight: China, Japan, and South Korea Get Aircraft Carriers
Many naval theorists have heralded the end of the aircraft-carrier era. They argue that the advent of pervasive sensors...
Understanding the Wave of Normalization in the Middle East
Recent developments in the Middle East signify major, and positive, changes in regional dynamics and balances. Four Arab countries—the...
The Way Forward for the United States in Somalia
The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) is on track to withdraw almost all U.S. forces from Somalia by January...
Does Africa Matter to the United States?
Most Americans generally have one of two images of Africa: a primitive home of famine, disease, and civil war,...
Trends in Terrorism: What’s on the Horizon in 2021?
The year 2020 was unprecedented in many ways. Just three days into the year, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered...
No Exit: The Illusion of Leaving Afghanistan
For the youngest U.S. soldiers, America is about apple pie, Abe Lincoln, and Afghanistan. They have never known a...
Compromise or Double Down: U.S.-Turkey Relations after CAATSA Sanctions
On December 14, the Trump administration sanctioned Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industry (SSB), along with key individuals involved in...