In October 2022, the Biden administration introduced export controls to limit China’s access to advanced US semiconductors ...

The legacy of the Soviet electrical grid has been a pernicious thorn in the side of the three Baltic states. In the late 2000s, they began negotiating their ...

On the night of August 6, the Ukrainian Armed Forces crossed the border at Russia’s Kursk region and launched a surprise offensive on several regional towns. Within twenty-four hours the Ukrainian ...

Jason C. Moyer is the Program Associate for the Global Europe Program at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His research focuses on NATO, the Baltics, the Nordics, and the European ...

Debates about national scientific and technological power tend to center on which state first generates new-to-the-world breakthroughs (innovation capacity).

It was disappointing to see so little in-depth discussion among the US national security community at the recent 2024 Forum On China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) outside of the usual circles of ...

There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period, but, from the 17th century onward, military commanders and strategists began to document the wars in which they were ...

Catherine Tan is a former research intern for the Asia Program and a rising junior at Colby College studying Anthropology and ...

U.S. Naval Institute (USNI), Jack C. Taylor Conference Center, Annapolis, Maryland The conference aims to capture lessons learned, including positive and negative examples, in the conduct of irregular ...

Although “democracy promotion” has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. While some countries quickly democratize, others lag ...

Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations and for targeted killings in places like Pakistan, Yemen and ...

Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the ...