Kerman Terrorist Attack Highlights Iranian Intelligence Failures
…regional posture — has increased its enemies’ motivation to target it. Iran also faces rising domestic discontent that makes it more vulnerable to penetration. Iran’s first massive intelligence failure was…
Brian Finlay op-ed in On Think Tanks on Stimson’s Five Star Transparency Rating
Amidst the most contentious, high-stakes, and mean-spirited campaign for U.S. president in decades, it is difficult to overstate the level of political partisanship that has enveloped American policymaking. At once…
2023 Global Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures Report
…at three different levels: We analyze 54 plans that are taken to be national. These are often ‘performative’. They are as much about national priorities as they are declarations meant…
A Credible Grand Strategy: The Urgent Need to Set Priorities
…strategy, which explains the push for “de-risking” — selective decoupling in key industries and sectors — instead.58“What does ‘de-risking’ trade with China mean?” Economist, May 31, 2023, https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2023/05/31/what-does-de-risking-trade-with-china-mean. There is…
Engaging Iran: Strategic Goal or Means to an End?
…to change the content and the outcomes as well. But the failure to achieve a breakthrough in the late 1990s must take into account a number of factors, or bumps…
Reinhard Krumm: How Boxed in is Berlin?
…things, kind of, the same on that. I mean, you still have foreign policy advisors who think that the United States should be in all theaters in the world, something…
Stimson Open Online Course: Nuclear South Asia
…Pakistan, and the United States. Read the full list of course lecturers. Nuclear South Asia is divided into seven chapters comprising 8.5 hours of video content. The course also includes recommended…
China’s Red Sea Play: From Security Free-Rider to Disruption Enabler
…longer content to sit on the sidelines of Red Sea security. On July 2, 2025, a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) frigate is believed to have directed a laser weapon…