Tag: North America
58 Articles
- Conflict & Security
NATO at 70: An Analysis of What’s Come, What’s Gone, and What the Future Holds
Looking Back When the Treaty of Brussels was signed on August 25, 1948, the world was, geopolitically-speaking, a strikingly different place. Just three years prior, Germany had…
September 3, 2019
- Science & Technology
Implications of Foreign Competition and Investment in U.S. Commercial Spaceflight Markets
President Trump also called for the creation of a Space Force, backed by the assertion that “it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space; we must have…
August 29, 2019
- Conflict & Security
The United States and its New Allies in Europe
Over the past several years, the United States has observed its influence in Europe progressively diminish, with Brussels increasingly pursuing policies that are regarded as…
July 15, 2019
- Conflict & Security
PART II: Rethinking Deterrence
So What Now? Applying the experiences of the Cold War to the United States’ present circumstances suggests that a renewed strategy of containment, backed by a nuclear, …
July 11, 2019
- Conflict & Security
PART I: Rethinking Deterrence
Today, the United States finds itself facing two near-peer competitors in Russia and China. Both are asserting their power and exhibiting expansionist tendencies. Both understand…
July 9, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Preventing Violent Extremism at a Crossroads
As the report rightly notes, exorbitant funding has been earmarked to pursue counterterrorism and P/CVE objectives. Since 2001, the United States has spent an estimated .9…
June 27, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Part II: (Un)Accountability for Torture
Public Reputational Accountability Gaps and Failures “The category of public reputational accountability,” Keohane asserts, “is meant to apply to situations in which…
June 20, 2019
- Business & Economics
The Canada-China FTA in Peril Part II: Arrested Progress
China and Canada have strong economic and cultural ties. China is Canada’s second largest trading partner after the United States, and is an essential economic partner for the…
March 12, 2019
- Business & Economics
The Canada-China FTA in Peril Part I: The USMCA “Non-Market Country” Provision
There is no official definition of a non-market economy in international trade agreements, and in the abstract the category is probably more of a continuum than a binary label.…
February 28, 2019
- Global Governance
The Fourth Coast: America’s New Challenges in the Arctic
Within minutes of the event, national news outlets were covering the disaster and Alaska briefly entered many Americans’ consciousness. However, by the end of the day, with no…
January 25, 2019