Maritime Security
Stimson’s Southeast Asia maritime security research tracks, analyzes and provides informed insight on the maritime disputes of the South China Sea and rising tensions that characterize them, especially regarding fisheries, undersea oil…
Tariffs, Economic Nationalism, and the Future of US Semiconductor Manufacturing
…Taiwan, the company fabricates 92% of the world’s cutting-edge semiconductors under contract, mostly for American companies like Nvidia, Apple, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Google, and Qualcomm. In Phoenix, Arizona, TSMC…
Cyber Scam Centers: A Growing Flashpoint in China-Myanmar Relations
…known for tracking censorship and protests in China, transferred the spreadsheet to Google Docs, where it remains accessible. To date, it includes over 1500 victims and their families impacted by…
The Nonproliferation Cheminformatics Compliance Tool (NCCT) Proof-of-Concept
…fields. Project Team This project is led by the Henry L. Stimson Center’s Partnerships in Proliferation Prevention Program (PPP). The Costanzi Research Group at the American University’s (AU) Department of…
Countering Digital Deception: National Responses to Online Scams
…2023, https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Trafficking-in-Persons-Report-2023_Introduction-Additional-Pagesv4_FINAL.pdf”https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Trafficking-in-Persons-Report-2023_Introduction-Additional-Pagesv4_FINAL.pdf. 9 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, “Inflection Point: Global Implications of Scam Centres, Underground Banking and Illicit Online Marketplaces in Southeast Asia,” April 2025, https://www.unodc.org/roseap/uploads/documents/Publications/2025/Inflection_Point_2025.pdf. 10…
Unarmed Drones Can Strengthen US and African Security
…poaching problem. For example, Google is funding a World Wildlife Fund project focused on deploying drones in Africa to protect wildlife. While these drones are relatively cheap (tens of thousands of dollars…
The Threat from Within: An Overview of the Domestic Violent Extremist Threat Facing US Nuclear Security Practitioners
…https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/National-Strategy-for-Countering-Domestic-Terrorism.pdf (accessed November 9, 2021). 140 National Security Council, National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, (Washington D.C.: The White House, June 15, 2021), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/National-Strategy-for-Countering-Domestic-Terrorism.pdf (accessed November 9, 2021). 141 Press…
Brian Finlay Named President and CEO of Stimson Center
…private industry into sustainable global security efforts. “The daily images out of Europe and the Middle East have again made it clear that humanity’s biggest challenges do not respect traditional…