As China currently dominates the clean energy market, the U.S. must ramp up its capabilities through public and private investments in renewable energy supply chains to remain a viable renewable energy competitor. Read more...

Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing threatens national security in many ways. This article summarizes five ways IUU fishing poses a security risk.Read more...

While military training exercises are a common practice for most nations, their size, frequency, and proximity to adversarial borders has been noticeably increasing, and in turn, their capacity to heighten tensions and trigger conflict.Read more...

The United States is in the process of modernizing its nuclear arsenal. This process continues to be plagued by the increasing cost of the modernization programs and the debate over the strategic value of key components of the nuclear triad.Read more...

Years of tit-for-tat expulsions have shrunken the United States’ diplomatic footprint in Russia. Any hope of stabilizing U.S.-Russia relations necessitates reopening consulates, reinstating expelled diplomats, and reconsidering using diplomatic expulsions as a cost-imposition tool against Russian transgressions.Read more...

China has concentrated much of its efforts on the African continent as part of the Belt and Road Infrastructure Initiative (BRI). The southern African region has been in the forefront of Chinese government influence.Read more...

The Biden-Putin summit in Geneva was, as expected, uneventful. Nevertheless, the results managed to surpass low expectations. The meeting signaled that between the two countries, a working relationship is still possible and opportunities for cooperation, albeit limited, are still available. However, significant challenges remain.Read more...

Biden’s indication that he intends to deliver a message to Putin raises a number of questions about what that message will be, and whether Putin will actually change his behavior as a result.Read more...

There has been a lot of recent interest in revitalizing American infrastructure to enhance international competitiveness with the introduction of the infrastructure bill. An important question that we need to address arises with this bill: what is most pertinent to American competitiveness and should be prioritized?Read more...

Abubakar Shekau, infamous leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, is rumored to finally be dead. Now what?Read more...