Where are the Carriers? U.S. National Strategy and the Choices Ahead
Executive Summary As the United States seeks to prepare for a potential conflict with a peer-level adversary, the...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Where are the Carriers? U.S. National Strategy and the Choices Ahead
A nation must think before it acts.
China
Dueling Dyads: Conceptualizing Proxy Wars in Strategic Competition
Strategic competition with the Russian Federation and People’s Republic of China has become the new orienting challenge for the...
Forceful Displays and Soft Rhetoric: Central Asia’s Response to Developments in Afghanistan
The swift fall of the Afghan government and Taliban takeover over the past few weeks poses challenges for the...
What Will the Terrorism Landscape Look Like in a Taliban-Led Afghanistan?
The Taliban’s recent capture of Kabul has the group poised to take back control over Afghanistan. Without question, a...
The Congo Rainforest and Prospects for the Next Pandemic
The Congo Rainforest is one of, if not the most, important regions in the world for biodiversity and carbon...
The Arctic: Global Warming and Heated Politics
The Arctic, a vast sea historically trapped in ice for most of the year, has long been an object...
The U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty and Philippine External Defense Forces
On the face of it, the Philippines’ security situation is somewhat puzzling. The country has a mutual defense treaty...
How to Recalibrate U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Executive Summary Changes in the Middle East have not been sufficiently accounted for in U.S. policy towards the...
A Sea Change Brewing over the Taiwan Strait?
One of the most impressive developments over the course of President Joseph Biden’s recent summits with foreign leaders has...
Hot and Cold: The Philippines’ Relations with China (and the United States)
In spring 2021, hundreds of Chinese fishing boats gathered at several South China Sea islets, most notably at Whitsun...