Publications

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. The first issue of Orbis for 2021 focused on the possible shape of a post-pandemic world. While the new year started on January 1, 2021, it feels as if the year began on...

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. In the journal’s continuing conversations with government officials and practitioners, our editor reached out to former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy and Assistant to the President of the United States...

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. In his 2016 magnus opus Connectography, Parag Khanna—himself a contributor to the previous issue of Orbis—included a fascinating map, showing how the countries of the world broke down in terms of whether...

Taipei Times The administration of US President Joe Biden on June 4 released a 100-day supply chain review titled “Building Resilient Supply Chains, Revitalizing American Manufacturing, and Fostering Broad-based Growth.” It lays out just how much the US —...

The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) dominance over global critical mineral supply chains presents one of the largest strategic vulnerabilities to the United States and her allies since the Arab oil embargo-triggered energy security crisis of the 1970s. The...

Aaron Stein has done a real service in his June 15 piece, Assessing the Biden Administration’s Interim Syria Policy. Syria policy for the last two administrations was at center stage. In many ways, it was also the bane of...

Taipei Times The administration of US President Joe Biden has continued its ongoing efforts to increase bilateral ties with Taiwan with the announcement about the return of US-Taiwan Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) talks. TIFA was signed in...

Stung by Southeast Asian criticism of Chinese behavior in the South China Sea at the 2010 ASEAN Regional Forum, China’s then-Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi curtly remarked to his Singaporean counterpart: “China is a big country and other countries are...

After taking office in January, the Biden administration began a review of American policy in Syria and the ongoing civil war there. This review sought to turn the page on Trump administration policies, which shifted U.S. priorities in Syria...

In 2009, while working in Washington, D.C., I remember the issue of Russian criminal syndicate hacking arising for the first time. Discussions about an appropriate measured response—one that would deter criminal hacking groups in places like Russia—quickly led to...