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Europe Economic Statecraft
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Geopolitics and Economic Statecraft in the European Union

In response to great-power rivalry and the weaponization of interdependence, the EU has adopted a geopolitical approach to economic statecraft. To build resilience and maintain its international credibility, the union will have to balance its pursuit of economic security with broader foreign policy goals.

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· November 19, 2024
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Building a New U.S.-Korea Technology Alliance: Strategies and Policies in an Entangled World

As the United States and the ROK prepare to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of their security and defense alliance in 2025, forging a durable technology alliance is going to become an increasingly critical element of their cooperation.

· November 13, 2024
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Do No Harm: Toward an Environmental Audit of Military-Managed Civilian Projects in Egypt

In order for Egypt to respond effectively to the alarming environmental threats it faces, it must bring the large number of military-managed projects and production in the civilian domain under a single, integrated national framework for climate change mitigation and adaptation planning, monitoring, and accountability.

· November 12, 2024
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The U.S.–India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) from 2022 to 2025: Assessment, Learnings, and the Way Forward

This paper highlights and analyzes how specific iCET deliverables have served as a forcing function within India for deregulation, administrative pivots, and decisionmaking less common in India’s past. Equally, it assesses how iCET outcomes have reshaped the way political leadership and U.S. bureaucracy deal with questions on export controls and critical technology partnerships. It also outlines new areas of cooperation that could define the iCET calendar over the next twelve months as a new administration will be sworn in to the White House.

· October 23, 2024
Advanced Orange Industrial Robot Arms Assemble EV Battery Pack on Automated Production Line
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Winning the Battery Race: How the United States Can Leapfrog China to Dominate Next-Generation Battery Technologies

The United States battery industry has fallen dangerously behind the global leaders. The main thrust of the U.S. policy response to the battery crisis must be the urgent commercialization of next-generation technologies where the United States can actually enjoy a competitive advantage.

· October 21, 2024
U.S.-China Relations for the 2030s
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U.S.-China Relations for the 2030s: Toward a Realistic Scenario for Coexistence

It has become difficult to imagine how Washington and Beijing might turn their relationship, which is so crucial to the future of world order, toward calmer waters. If there is to be any hope of doing so, however, policy experts need some realistic vision of what those calmer waters might look like.

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· October 17, 2024
Global trade
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Trade Intervention for Freer Trade

By targeting specific trade violations rather than balanced flows, global trade policy has been focusing on the wrong outcome. New trade rules are needed to create an international trading system in which comparative advantage allocates production.

· October 3, 2024
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U.S. Support for Democratic Openings in Conflict-Affected Countries: Lessons From Ethiopia and Sudan

When conflict-affected countries have a democratic opening, U.S. policymakers need to better understand and incorporate the many factors at play—local actors and power structures, emerging powers and their interests, and competing U.S. interests, among others.

· October 2, 2024
Ford Motor Company's electric F-150 Lightning on the production line at their Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan on September 8, 2022.
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Catching Up or Leaping Ahead? How Energy Innovation Can Secure U.S. Industrial Stature in a Net-Zero World

Chinese companies are dominating the production of technologies essential for a clean energy future. The United States should embrace innovation to preserve its future energy security.

· September 19, 2024
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The Los Angeles Declaration Continues to Shape the Regional and Global Migration Response

Two years after its passage, the U.S.-led migration pact unites American leaders to promote safe, legal migration.

· September 16, 2024
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If-Then Commitments for AI Risk Reduction

If-then commitments are an emerging framework for preparing for risks from AI without unnecessarily slowing the development of new technology. The more attention and interest there is in these commitments, the faster a mature framework can progress.

· September 13, 2024
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Russian Military Reconstitution: 2030 Pathways and Prospects

As the Kremlin’s antagonism toward Ukraine and the West sharpens, it will be critically important for policymakers and warfighters to anticipate, monitor, and respond to Russia’s military reconstitution progress in the years ahead.

· September 12, 2024