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U.S. Nuclear Strategy and the Future of Arms Control
According to recent press reports, the Biden administration has approved a secret nuclear strategy designed to adapt U.S. defense planning to the anticipated rise of China as a third nuclear...
Getting Real about Critical Minerals: The Case of Antimony
While Democratic and Republican politicians have acknowledged the importance of critical minerals, both for America’s current needs and future technology, China’s decision last week to restrict the export of one...
China is Winning the Global South
Great Power Competition, sometimes called the Second Cold War, is unfolding on a global scale. The United States is not competing with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China, nor...
What the U.S. Can Learn from the Chinese Development Playbook
In what has come to be referred to as the Great Power Competition (GPC), malign, revisionist powers, like the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia, challenge nations and institutions...
Urgently Needed: A Europeanized NATO
Russia has shown by its expansionist and illegal wars against Ukraine and Georgia that it is a chronic threat to the peace and security of Europe. In case of a...
It’s Time to Build the Nuclear Arsenal of the Twenty-First Century
The international system is in chaos. Earlier this summer, North Korea claimed to have launched a ballistic missile carrying multiple independent nuclear warheads. This test comes on the heels of...
Will Donald Trump Restore “Peace Through Strength”?
What will a Trump foreign policy in his second term, look like? As the Biden presidency flounders, that’s the question foreign leaders from the NATO summit this past week to...
Assessing the G-7 Summit
Giorgia Meloni was the star of the G7, embodying a “respectable” far-right. On Thursday, June 13, the Italian prime minister coldly welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf...
The Eclipse of the Russian Arms Market
Scholars and commentators have published numerous analyses of the 2023 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reports on defense expenditures and imports and exports for countries across the world. Overall,...
The U.S. Must Win the AI Race
With conflict currently present in almost every region of the world, speculation about “World War III” is difficult to avoid. If a calamity of such magnitude were to occur, it...
World Order is in a Downward Spiral
The international system is well into its most challenging period since the years that led up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, as the liberal world order gradually erodes. U.S.-China relations...
The End of Soft Power?
In a world marked by wars in Ukraine and Gaza, is the age of soft power over? Thirty years ago, with the end of the Soviet Union, increasing integration in...