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A Primer on Transshipment
What Would a Ceasefire in Ukraine Look Like?
Experts React: What’s at Stake in the Trump–Putin Alaska Meeting
AI & Global Food Security: A Focus on Precision Agriculture
Back & Forth: Do Export Controls Erode the United States’ Lead—Or Protect It?
Sending the National Guard into D.C. Is the Wrong Solution to a Crime Problem
A Short Primer on Transshipment
U.S. Clean Tech Exports Are the Key to Long-Term U.S. Economic Growth
Is Israel Headed for a Forever War in Gaza?
How Tariffs Could Derail the United States’ $3 Trillion AI Buildout
Commercial Diplomacy Needs Good Governance
What Trump’s Submarine Threat and Russia’s INF Exit Really Mean
Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Program—Can It Rebuild?
“Assessing the Impact of China-Russia Coordination in the Media and Information Space”: Audio Brief with Henry Ziemer
Trump Moves “Nuclear” Subs: Negotiating Tactic or Escalatory Gamble?
After New Tariffs, Trust Between the United States and India Is Running Low
Pressure at the Pump: Ukraine Resumes Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries
Benchmarking as a Path to International AI Governance
Let’s Make a Deal
Panama’s Port Lawsuits Reshape Great Power Competition in the Americas: The Mulino Doctrine in Action
The Dangerous Allure of Myanmar’s Rare Earths
“Lights Out? Wargaming a Chinese Blockade of Taiwan”: Audio Brief with Mark F. Cancian
South Korea Gets Its Trade Deal with the United States
Routine Immunizations on the Precipice: Forestalling the Worst Outcomes in the Current Vaccine Landscape
The Section 232 Investigation on Commercial Aircraft
The United States Cannot Win the Twenty-First-Century Innovation Race with a Twentieth-Century Playbook
Experts React: Starvation in Gaza
The U.S.-EU Trade Deal: Geopolitical Victory and Economic Uncertainty for the United States
Modernizing Satellite Spectrum Rules Is Key to U.S. Space Leadership
“Developing Rare Earth Processing Hubs: An Analytical Approach”: Audio Brief with Gracelin Baskaran
Trump’s Trade Strategy Takes Shape with Latest EU Trade Deal
“Why Tocqueville Would Embrace AI Benchmarking”: Audio Brief with Ian Reynolds
The United States Risks Losing its Carbon Capture Advantage
Experts React: One Year Since Latin America’s Most Brazen Electoral Theft in History
Toward Reliable AI, from the Bottom Up
Sorting Out the United States–China Relationship
The Road to Kyiv Must Not Run Through Washington
How a Cyber Alliance Took Down Russian Cybercrime
Building Resilient Water Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Experts React: Unpacking the Trump Administration’s Plan to Win the AI Race
Hidden Enablers: Third Countries in North Korea’s Cyber Playbook
Electric Vehicles, China, and the Industrial Strategies Reshaping Mobility in Emerging Economies
AI Benchmarking and the Future of Foreign Policy
Thailand Launches Airstrikes Amid Border Dispute with Cambodia
Deterrence Runs on Rare Earths
Assessing the U.S.-Japan Trade Deal Announcement
Rethinking Copper Tariffs
From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Rewriting the Grid Planning Playbook in the Southwest Power Pool and Texas
“Shifting Tides: The National Security Implications of the United States’ Pacific Drawdown”: Audio Brief with John Augé
An Americas First Case for Reauthorizing the Development Finance Corporation
The Importance of Kachin State to Myanmar’s Revolution
“Mesh Sensing for Air and Missile Defense”: Audio Brief with Masao Dahlgren
To Hit Russia Hard and Support Ukraine, Capture the Oil Discount
Japan’s Upper House Election: Prolonged Instability
Moving the Goalposts
Will the United States Push Europe Toward China?
Is the Ukraine Recovery Conference Building Momentum or Falling Short?
Preemptive Strikes, Deterrence, and Denuclearization: Ascertaining Pyongyang’s View of U.S. Use of Force Against Iran’s Nuclear Program
Fifty Years Later, Lessons from Apollo-Soyuz for Today
Violence Escalates as Israel Intervenes in Southern Syria
Trump Sends Weapons to Ukraine: By the Numbers
How AI Cooperation Can Save the U.S.- ROK Trade Talks
“Making the U.S.-UK Special Relationship Fit for Purpose”: Audio Brief with Max Bergmann
Progress Toward Practical Areas of Quantum Technology
Financing for Development: What’s Next After Seville?
Reevaluating the Need for Mission Authorization
Round and Round We Go, Where We Stop Nobody Knows
Trump Tariffs Likely Pushing Asia Elsewhere for Economic Partners
Financing for Development from Monterrey to Seville: A 25-Year Retrospective
What Are Brazil’s Strategic Options in Response to U.S. Tariffs?
Out-Adapting the Enemy: Why Mass Alone Won’t Win Tomorrow’s Wars
Iran Conflict: Four Lessons Learned for the Oil Market
Innovate or Die: The Army Transformation Initiative and the Future of Allied Land Warfare
Renewing the United States’ Skilled Technical Workforce
Impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on the Mining Sector
No Checks on Power? The Effects of Mexico’s Judicial Reform on Foreign Investment and the USMCA
The Limits of Russia’s Friendship: How Moscow Sees the Iran Crisis
President Trump’s “Carrot and Stick” Approach to Africa
A Parade of Rants
Power Access for AI: The Flexibility Compact
Disentangling the Five Key Questions on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Reforming the Reformers: Seville Conference Must Upgrade Credit Rating Agencies
Trade Liberalizing Efforts in Other Countries Contradict U.S. Policies
Can Local Economic Interests Affect Congressional Votes on Climate? Evidence from Solar Tariffs
Overcoming the Barriers to Forward Deterrence
Turning Diplomatic Commitments into Mineral Investments in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Tariff Rate Quotas
No AI Without Power: Why the Quad Must Secure Power Equipment Supply Chains
Critical Minerals, Fragile Peace: The DRC-Rwanda Deal and the Cost of Ignoring Root Causes
Can Washington Counter Beijing Without Repeating Cold War Mistakes?
Why the United States Acted Now Against Iran
NATO’s “Brain Death” in The Hague
Strengthening NATO Starts with Fixing Its Industrial Base
No Strategy Without Society: Rethinking NATO’s Coordination Mechanisms
Reign of Error
The Fallout Factor in Targeting Iran’s Nuclear Program
What Operation Midnight Hammer Means for the Future of Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
How War with Iran Could Disrupt Energy Exports at the Strait of Hormuz
How Will Iran and the Middle East Respond to U.S. Strikes?
Inside Trump's Strike on Iran's Nuclear Program