Distinguished Fellow David Hale commends the 2025 National Security Strategy for its candid focus on restoring American economic competitiveness and acknowledges the significant regional strides made ...

Distinguished Fellow Carrie Filipetti says that while President Trump’s National Security Strategy correctly prioritizes the Western Hemisphere, there are still steps the Administration can take to ...

Distinguished Fellow Ken Westbrook argues that the National Security Strategy could have done more to recognize cyber-enabled financial crime as a first-order national security crisis.

Distinguished Fellow Anka Lee argues that while the National Security Strategy includes robust language on China, the Trump Administration still needs a rallying cry to counter Beijing’s broader ...

For many years now, the five Arctic Coastal states have conducted bathymetric and geologic work in the Arctic Ocean region toward what some observers have—alarmingly but falsely—called a competitive ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is on the rise in Mexico, and the drivers of femicides, sexual violence, and disappearances are evolving, revealing intricate connections between criminal networks, ...

The expansion and persistence of slums in Mumbai is primarily a function of failed housing policies combined with other political factors, writes Fellow Yue Zhang. Urban Sustainability Laboratory From ...

Since its creation in December 1987, Hamas has invoked militant interpretations of Islam to spearhead a Sunni extremist movement committed to destroying Israel. Hamas distanced itself from the ...

Finland’s shipyards have the capacity to produce icebreakers quickly and at a reasonable cost. It is estimated that, compared to US icebreaker production underway, the average Finnish icebreaker would ...

The September−October enlistment drive has done to the Russian economy what the West’s sanctions have so far failed to do. The real estate market, demand for credit, and consumer sentiment all show a ...

Solar radiation management (SRM) is an idea born of desperation. It is also an idea that demands consideration as the global community grapples with an ongoing and accelerating climate crisis. This ...

A slow-motion crisis has been developing in the Nile Valley since the Ethiopian government announced the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile ten years ago. Even ...