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Emerging Trends in the Trump Approach to Security Cooperation

Elias Yousif | Rachel Stohl

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The United States and WMD Nonproliferation, One Year On

Christina McAllister

Global Political Demography

Morocco: An International Legal Anchor

Morocco is examined as a legally grounded mediator whose institutional continuity strengthens peace efforts across the Middle East, North Africa… and is increasingly shaping international peace efforts not through grandstanding, but through law, institutions, and follow-through….

Elias Yousif | Rachel Stohl

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Cracking Down on Scam Compounds in Southeast Asia

This event explores recent efforts to counter online scams run out of compounds in Southeast Asia and snapshots the current situation in Cambodia.

Middle East

Implications of US-India Trade Announcements

Elizabeth Threlkeld | Daniel Markey | et al.

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America is Running the Wrong AI Race

Broderick McDonald | Lisa Klaassen

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National Defense Strategy Has the Right Principles, But Fails to Follow Them

The 2026 NDS promises prioritization but undermines it with expanded commitments, ambiguous burden-sharing, and overconfidence in airpower. The 2026 National Defense Strategy takes important steps in the right direction, acknowledging that decades of strategic overreach, nation-building, and allied free-riding have left the United States stretched thin across multiple theaters, and that…
Kelly A. Grieco

Project

Assessing American Alliances

Many believe that permanent peacetime alliances provide both security and leverage for the United States — but are today’s alliances really fit for purpose?

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China and the Middle East

Unpacking Beijing’s strategic, economic, political, and security interactions with the critical region.

DON'T TREAD ON ME: AI AND THE RISE OF ILLEGIBLE POWER

As generative AI becomes a daily tool for students and professionals, scientists are investigating how frequent interaction affects cognition. Imagine relying so heavily on GPS that you can no longer drive to work without it — the routes and turns blur in your mind. If chatbots become the go-to for problem-solving, does the brain, like the driver, forget how to navigate on its own?

Christina McAllister

Critical Minerals

South Asia

The United States and WMD Nonproliferation, One Year On

Christina

Managing Across

America is Running the Wrong AI Race

Broderick McDonald | Lisa Klaassen

Space Security

America is Running the Wrong AI Race

Broderick McDonald | Lisa Klaassen

Peacekeeping

Budgeting For Foreign Affairs And Defense

The United States and WMD Nonproliferation, One Year On

Christina

Global Governance, Justice & Security

America is Running the Wrong AI Race

Broderick McDonald | Lisa Klaassen

38 North

America is Running the Wrong AI Race

Broderick McDonald | Lisa Klaassen

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North Africa, Mediterranean, And The Sahel

The United States and WMD Nonproliferation, One Year On

Christina

Latin America

America is Running the Wrong AI Race

Broderick McDonald | Lisa Klaassen

Cyber

America is Running the Wrong AI Race

Broderick McDonald | Lisa Klaassen

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The United States and WMD Nonproliferation, One Year On

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Reimagining Us Grand Strategy

America is Running the Wrong AI Race

Broderick McDonald | Lisa Klaassen

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America is Running the Wrong AI Race

Broderick McDonald | Lisa Klaassen

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The expiration of New Start on February 5 marks the end of over half a century of bilateral efforts to advance strategic arms control. On February 3, the Stimson Center and the Oppenheimer Project convened leading nuclear experts from the US and Russia to imagine what comes next…

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The Net Assessment crew evaluates a *Resolute Global Leadership” grand strategy.

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New Denial Strategy? Assessing the 2026 NDS

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The Middle East is Asian: A Fireside with the Author of West Asia

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The Re-Making of International Security: Arms Transfer Trends in a Changing Global Order

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Truth or Tech: The Socio-Technical Risks of AI Audio for the Global South

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Gaza’s Reconstruction: A Conversation on Water, Energy, and Infrastructure with EcoPeace Middle East

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