Tag: United States
59 Articles
- Society & Culture
A New Way Forward – The Transatlantic Subnational Resilience Framework
Introduction Climate change requires coordinated international responses. Between 2021 and 2023, weather- and climate-related disasters cost an estimated 2.7 billion in the U.S.…
December 1, 2025
- Science & Technology
A Playbook for Winning the AI Race: Compete, Counter, Cooperate
The Stakes of the AI Race & Export Controls As AI becomes increasingly central to 21st-century power, it is important for the United States to sustain its leadership in…
November 18, 2025
- Science & Technology
Biotechnology as a Strategic Asset: Ends, Ways, and Means for a U.S. Competitive Advantage
Tools of Power and Strategy President Donald Trump’s second administration is introducing new levers of American power and committing to an “America First” approach while…
August 28, 2025
- Business & Economics
‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs: A Solution in Search of a Problem
The State of Play: A Trade War Begins On April 2, 2025, the White House issued an executive order imposing sweeping reciprocal tariffs on imports from all U.S. trade partners,…
July 7, 2025
- Science & Technology
Deterrence in the Age of Weaponizable Biotechnology
Introduction When physicist Herman Kahn posed the possibility of nuclear war in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War, he was contemplating what then seemed unthinkable. At the, …
June 4, 2025
- Global Governance
NATO’s Greatest Test: Baltic Security in Trump’s Shadow
Harsh new realities The abrupt shift in U.S. foreign policy under the Trump administration, marked by the abandonment of Ukraine and an embrace of Vladimir Putin’s Russia,…
May 21, 2025
- Conflict & Security
The Dangerous Narrative of the “War on Cartels”
Building a New Wall In 2016, the U.S.-Mexico border became a matter of foremost national interest. Former president Donald Trump ran his 2016 campaign around the purported need…
November 23, 2024
- Global Governance
The Impending Danger of Informal Economic Coercion in Africa
With the growing economic rivalry and weaponization of trade between China and the United States, economic statecraft has transformed into a new arena of great power competition.…
November 6, 2024
- Global Governance
The Israel-Palestine Conflict and China’s Actorness in the Middle East: A Challenge to US Influence
Introduction China has significantly bolstered its economic and military capabilities in the last twenty years by expanding ambitious projects such as the Belt and Road…
October 28, 2024
- Business & Economics
Cyber Mercenaries: Limiting Government Use of Commercial Spyware
Recent Trends in Commercial Spyware The commercial spyware industry, valued at approximately billion in 2023, is highly lucrative and concentrated among a small number of. …
September 4, 2024