Thomas J. Duesterberg
Given the historically unprecedented speed with which the US pharmaceutical industry has developed COVID-19 vaccines—3 of the 4 first products likel...
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Nate Sibley & Ben Judah
Kleptocracy, or “rule by thieves,” has for too long been disregarded from mainstream foreign policy discussions. It is often overlooked as a perip...
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Tod Lindberg
Since the 1789 adoption in Philadelphia of the Constitution that established the form of government of the United States of America, this country has ...
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James Barnett
For better or worse, US-Africa policy will not be an urgent priority for the Biden-Harris administration when it takes office in January. Domestic cha...
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Richard Weitz
The Trump administration has described the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation as the most significant great-power challengers to ...
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Taro Hayashi
Sixty years ago, Japan and the United States signed the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security marking the beginning of the Japan-US Alliance as we...
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Hanns Kuttner
Early in the COVID-19 epidemic, many gloomy images emerged of what might be ahead. In one, hospitals would be overrun by more COVID-19 patients than ...
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James Barnett
A civil war is erupting in Ethiopia—Africa’s second most populous state, a geopolitical fulcrum in the volatile Red Sea arena, and the seat of the Afr...
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Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
An international consensus to meet contemporary challenges will develop primarily around defending against shared threats. If the United States is ...
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Husain Haqqani
Soon after Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979, its leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared that Iran would challenge “the world’s arrogant p...
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James Barnett
The Islamic State (IS) has not scored many propaganda victories in the year since Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by U.S. forces in Idlib, which makes...
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Hassan Mneimneh
In 2020, Lebanon should be celebrating its centenary. It is not. Instead, it is close to terminal collapse as a polity, an economy, and even as a soci...
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Thomas J. Duesterberg
The most important and durable achievement of the Trump administration’s trade policy has been recognizing that China is not the “responsible stak...
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Audu Bulama Bukarti
On New Year’s Day 2016, al-Shabaab, a jihadi group active in East Africa, released a propaganda video featuring then-Republican Party presidential f...
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James M. Dorsey
Jordanian ruler Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein gloated in 1924 when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the visionary who carved modern Turkey out of the ruins of the O...
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Toulu Akerele
The jihadist ambition to establish a global Caliphate has suffered serious setbacks in the last two years. Daesh (Islamic State or IS) emerged as a mo...
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Seth Cropsey
The American news cycle moves so quickly that only the most jarring events break through into popular consciousness. Notwithstanding, the United State...
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John Lee
In July 2020, Chinese chairman Xi Jinping articulated a new “dual circulation” strategy to “unleash the full potential of [Chi...
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Richard Weitz & Aurimas Lukas Pieciukaitis
Russian media outlets have waged a comprehensive disinformation campaign throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Both the US State Department’s Global Engag...
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James Barnett
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promotes its worldview and political and economic model overseas, particularly in the developing world, albeit in a ...
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Brendan Brown
This policy study is based on the newly released book, "Europe’s Century of Crises under Dollar Hegemony: A Dialogue on the Global Tyranny of Unso...
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Bryan Clark et al.
The US fleet is at an important crossroads. Nearly twenty years after the drive for transformation led to costly and problematic programs such as the ...
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Bryan Clark & Dan Patt
US national security experts worry the United States is falling behind China in the competition for 5G mobile communication dominance. While US compan...
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Bryan Clark et al.
Submarines have posed a challenge to naval forces for more than a century, enabling weaker maritime powers to launch surprise attacks ashore or cut an...
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Liselotte Odgaard & Sune Lund
On June 26, 2020, outgoing commander of US naval forces in Europe, Admiral James Foggo, highlighted the need for more communication at sea in order t...
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Aparna Pande
Making India Great seeks to explain the dichotomy that lies at the heart of the nation: its belief in being a great power and yet reluctance to consis...
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Thomas J. Duesterberg
The imperative to return supply chains to the United States for products important to national defense, medical security, and competitiveness in key i...
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Thomas J. Duesterberg
Imperative to return supply chains for products important to national defense, medical security, and competitiveness in key sectors is not a new one...
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John Lee
On January 1, 1979, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China issued a “Messa...
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Hudson Institute
First Step Act Implementation Fiscal Year 2020 90-Day Report...
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Eric B. Brown et al.
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has introduced a series of new stresses and factors in the US-China relationship. While the world has struggled ...
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Arthur Herman
CEOs and CIOs are accountable for protecting their company, their investors, their customers, and their employees from cyber-threats that endanger the...
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Steven Tepp
The Internet Archive (“IA”) began operation in 1996, at first making archival copies of websites, but soon offering those to the public and then e...
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Jerry Hendrix
Distilling lessons learned from the first “Sputnik Moment”...
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John Lee
Beijing is aggressively engaged in a propaganda campaign to characterize its response to COVID-19 as decisive and representative of a superior system...
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Liselotte Odgaard
China's Janus-headed approach looks for opportunities that developing countries often believe have been neglected by traditional aid institutions...
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Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
If enacted, the Missile Defense Agency’s FY21 budget submission to Congress would make some improvements to the country’s missile defense architecture...
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John Lee
The coronavirus has become an issue at a time when Xi’s government has spent years engaging in a high-risk, high-cost approach towards national growth...
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John Lee
How the U.S. and its allies can confront and counter these Chinese strategies and initiatives....
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Hillel Fradkin et al.
Analysis on the Erdogan's revolution in Turkey, Al-Qaeda in Syria, Boko Haram, Moroccan Islam, Islam in Russia, Social Media in Iran and more ...
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Ben Judah
Britain's position in the world and British foreign policy since the referendum...
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Audu Bulama Bukarti
Over the last decade from 2009-2019, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of mass violence and wrought havoc in Africa’s Lake Chad region, which comprises ...
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Kristen Osenga
Patent-eligible subject matter, the doctrine that explains what types of inventions may be patented, is a mess....
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Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
This transcript is drawn from an interview between Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and ...
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Hank Cardello
Poor dietary patterns are the leading cause of noncommunicable disease in the U.S., and they are creating a significant burden on the economy and on q...
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John Lee
China's economy suffers from serious structural problems that have political and strategic policy ramifications for the U.S. and its allies....
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Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
On November 25th, 2019, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs conducted an exclusive interview with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. B...
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Seth Cropsey
The United States today faces the greatest challenge to its international stature since the mid-twentieth century. America’s adversaries, despite thei...
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Patrick M. Cronin
During an era in which strategic gravity is shifting to Asia, the U.S. cannot be careless in tending to its alliances with Japan and South Korea...
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Seth Cropsey & Jun Isomura
A tabletop exercise (TTX) was held at Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. from June 25–27, 2019. The TTX was modeled on the Taiwan Strait crisis, whi...
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Hillel Fradkin et al.
Analysis on the Muslim Brotherhood, The anti-Muslim movement in China, the future of Turkey under Erdogan, Islamism in Europe, and more ...
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Richard Weitz
Over the last three decades, China and Russia have developed an increasingly close military relationship built on arms sales, joint military exercises...
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Arthur Herman
CEOs and CIOs are accountable for protecting their company, their investors, their customers, and their employees from cyber-threats that endanger the...
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John Lee
If the U.S. doesn’t counter China’s military mission creep with its own whole-government approach to economic aid in the South Pacific, America and it...
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Robin Simcox
Islamism poses substantial political and security challenges to governments across Europe. At present, it is unclear whether those governments are cap...
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Tarek Elgawhary
Two significant streams of Muslim thought flow through Egypt. One emanates from the scholarship of the al-Ahzar establishment in Cairo; the other from...
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John Lee
A better-coordinated effort that blends hard and soft power is needed to defend freedom of navigation and uphold international law....
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Arthur Herman
Imagine a computer solving the mathematical problems that today’s fastest supercomputers can’t begin to unlock, in less than a blink of an eye...
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Hillel Fradkin et al.
Analysis on extremism in Turkey, The Milli Muslim League in Pakistan, Sunni leadership in Iraq, Al-Qaeda, and Indonesian Islam...
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The golden age of transatlantic relations is behind us...
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Svante E. Cornell
Turkish leadership’s rhetoric is increasingly similar to that of America’s adversaries and is only rarely that of a partner and ally...
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C. Christine Fair
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is the Pakistani army's most subservient proxy...
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Nathaniel Rabkin
Iraq's Sunni religious leaders get less attention from political observers than their Shia counterparts...
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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Nathaniel Barr
The years following the 9/11 attacks and preceding the Arab Spring marked a period of tumult for al-Qaeda...
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Jonas Parello-Plesner
President Donald Trump wants to pull US troops out of Syria, and he recently froze $200 million in stabilization funds for the country...
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Sorin Ducaru
This paper defines a framework for a coherent NATO cyber strategy, led by the U.S., which would build on the transatlantic alliance...
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