Building Soft Power Back Better?
The Biden administration has multiple competing priorities: COVID-19 and its economic impacts, long-ignored racial fissures, and a growing tenuous...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Building Soft Power Back Better?
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Analysis
China’s Two Sessions—And What They Mean for the United States
Every March, nearly 5,000 delegates descend on Beijing for the meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and...
Rosneft, Gazprom, and Russia’s Failure to Adopt Green Policies
The Russian Federation is on a collision course with climate change. In 2019, it ranked fourth in annual carbon...
The Jihad Legacy of World War I
Known as a pious Muslim, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said in 2015 that it is most difficult to...
Germany’s Transatlantic Ambiguities
Hopes for a spectacular relaunch of the European Union’s Franco-German “motor” after Brexit have thus far failed to materialize....
Reciprocity and Coercion: Ending the Downturn in U.S.-Iran Relations
Just days after the United States struck Iranian-linked targets in Syria, militia members fired a volley of rockets at...
Beyond Oil: Lithium-Ion Battery Minerals and Energy Security
Oil has long dominated concerns about energy security because oil products have fueled nearly all of the world’s transportation...
Russia’s Permanent War against Georgia
As the Biden administration works to develop its strategy to counter the Russian Federation, it is useful to reexamine...
Jihadist Groups in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing the Threat
As the Biden administration surveys the litany of foreign policy challenges that exist—Iran, China, Russia, and North Korea, to...
Thank You for Being a Friend: NATO, Iraq, and the Benefits of the Alliance
After a recent meeting of defense ministers in Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the Alliance would expand...