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208 Articles
- Defense
Out of Depth: Strengthening American Conventional Deterrence by Expanding Magazine Depth
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine underscores a dire reality–conventional military conflicts are resurging globally without prospects for abatement. The deterioration of the security…
January 27, 2024
- East Asia & Indo-Pacific
- Geoeconomics & Resource Competition
A New Turn for BRI in South Asia?
Fall 2023 marked the tenth anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative, first announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Kazakhstan in 2013. The BRI consists of a series…
January 23, 2024
- Environment and Biosecurity
- Intelligence & National Security
- Terrorism & Transnational Threats
Fentanyl and National Security: How the Opioid Crisis Intersects with Foreign Relations
The November 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco spurred renewed collaboration against the global fentanyl crisis. Notably, U.S. President Joe…
January 19, 2024
- Defense
- Europe & Central Asia
Breaking the Ice: The Prospect of a Joint Nordic Military
In March 2023, leaders of the Nordic air forces of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland signed a joint declaration to integrate their collective air forces in the…
January 18, 2024
- Intelligence & National Security
Winning the Race: The Case for Counterintelligence against Chinese Espionage
Aesop’s fable, “the Tortoise and the Hare,” famously warns us about the dangers of arrogance and complacency in the face of a determined adversary. Unfortunately, in the modern…
January 17, 2024
- Technology
Open-Source Datasets: A Double-Edged Sword
In late December, a New York Times article highlighted a new artificial intelligence (AI) program run by the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Ministry of State…
January 13, 2024
- Europe & Central Asia
- Intelligence & National Security
Tip of the Spear: Analyzing Ukrainian Intelligence Operations Behind Russian Lines
Over the past two years, the gaze of the world has largely fixated on the stalemated nature of fighting on the ground in eastern and southern Ukraine. As successes and failures…
January 10, 2024
- Defense
- East Asia & Indo-Pacific
Impossible to Break: Strengthening Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific with AUKUS
Announced in September 2021, AUKUS is a trilateral security partnership between the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. The ‘big ticket’ is Australia’s…
December 29, 2023
- Geoeconomics & Resource Competition
Small Yard, High Fence? U.S. Economic Restrictions on the People’s Republic of China
The Biden administration claims the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is leveraging its technological capabilities to promote its authoritarian governance model,…
December 26, 2023
- Geoeconomics & Resource Competition
- Middle East & North Africa
A New Century: Turkey’s Pursuit of Regional Economic Power Upon its 100th Anniversary
On October 29th, Turkey celebrated the 100th anniversary of its establishment as a secular, Western-facing nation. However, since Ataturk’s founding of the…
December 18, 2023