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(USA) A Conversation With Senator Chris Murphy (CFR)

Speaker Chris Murphy U.S. Senator from Connecticut (D); Member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Presider Mary Louise Kelly Host, All Things Considered, NPR; CFR Member Senator Chris Murphy discusses the future...

(USA/Russia) Transition 2021 Series: How to Deal With Russia (CFR)

Panelists discuss U.S. - Russia relations, including issues such as Ukraine, cybersecurity, and the domestic political outlook in both countries. Speakers Fiona Hill Robert Bosch Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Former...

(Japan) How Japan Is Upgrading Its Military (CFR)

Sheila A. Smith Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga intends to continue Japan’s sweeping upgrades of its defense capabilities amid a major buildup of China’s military forces,...

(Iran) What Is the Iran Nuclear Deal? (CFR)

Kali Robinson The fate of the arms control agreement is in serious doubt following the United States’ withdrawal and Iran’s noncompliance, but some see an...

(USA) After the apocalypse: Defense spending (AEI)

Mackenzie Eaglen From an ongoing pandemic to deadly winter storms to rising poverty, Americans are facing myriad threats to their everyday security. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/after-the-apocalypse-defense-spending/

(USA) New research on the Paycheck Protection Program (AEI)

Michael R. Strain The Paycheck Protection Program was the most ambitious and creative fiscal policy response to the Pandemic Recession https://www.aei.org/economics/new-research-on-the-paycheck-protection-program/

(USA) $1.9 trillion stimulus bill is latest example of ‘never letting a serious crisis go to waste’ (AEI)

Matt Weidinger Rahm Emanuel, as chief of staff to President-elect Obama, famously said in late 2008, “You never want a serious crisis to go to...

(USA) Competing in time: Ensuring capability advantage and mission success through adaptable resource allocation (AEI)

William C. Greenwalt, Dan Patt The keystone of the Department of Defense’s institutional architecture is not acquisition, but rather the budgeting process. This governs its ability...

(Fuel Subsidy) Seizing opportunities for fuel subsidy reform (Brookings)

Victoria Bassetti and Kelsey Landau As the COVID-19 pandemic upended long-settled fossil fuel supply and demand expectations, natural resource governance experts contemplated something that seemed politically insurmountable just a year...

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