National Security

Since the mid-2010s, technology has been the topic du jour in Washington, DC policy circles. Trump’s crusade against Huawei and Biden’s war on China’s semiconductor industry reflect this new norm of the centrality of technology to US politics, as...

Fear and lack of knowledge of cryptocurrency at the highest levels of the US government pose a major threat to national security.  The emergence of the technological solution provided by the Bitcoin protocol in 2008 (and the myriad of...

Just as Halford Mackinder, in his seminal work The Geographical Pivot of History, argued that control over the Eurasian heartland held the key to global mastery, the world stands at the precipice of another pivotal shift—one driven not by...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently arrived in Washington seeking to persuade the White House and Congress to successfully negotiate legislation that would free up $60 billion to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian forces.  He delivered his remarks...

Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a series on the future of US-UK relations. The second article can be found here.    There was a time when the United Kingdom was regarded as the world leader in...

Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a series on the future of US-UK relations. The first article can be found here.    The US-UK special relationship, one of the longest and closest bilateral relationships of the twentieth...

Editor’s Note: This article is the sixth annual “Trends in Terrorism” essay from global counterterrorism expert and FPRI non-resident Senior Fellow Colin Clarke.    On the morning of October 7, Hamas terrorists breached the border fence between Gaza and...

In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States has embarked upon an ambitious endeavor: containing its two most powerful rivals, China and Russia, at the same time. Central to this strategy is the imperative of...

Capitalists of the world unite! You have everything to lose, especially your supply chains.  Just about a month ago, on June 18, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes was quoted in the Financial Times as saying “We can de-risk, but we...

In the 2010s, the global landscape changed. The Arab Spring, the Russian occupation of Crimea, and China’s national security law in Hong Kong were indicative of a profound change in the global system. The era of the unipolar moment,...