Commentary
The Russian army is not currently struggling to recruit new contract soldiers, though the number of people willing to go to war for money is dwindling.
Dmitry Kuznets
Research
Korea Clean Chip Strategy: Linking Clean Energy to Semiconductor Leadership
How Korea can leverage its proven crisis-to-opportunity playbook to secure semiconductor leadership in an era of clean energy transition.
Published on Jul 11, 2025
About the Authors
Darcie Draudt-Véjares
Fellow, Asia Program
Darcie Draudt-Véjares is a fellow in the Carnegie Asia Program.
Hannah Jeong
Tim Sahay
Tim Sahay is the co-editor of The Polycrisis at Phenomenal World and the co-director of the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University.
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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