Tag: USA

(USA/Russia/Europe) Biden must freeze Putin’s pipeline and prevent this “bad deal for Europe” (Atlantic Council)

Benjamin Schmitt In August 2016, then US Vice President Joe Biden stood in Stockholm and declared the Kremlin-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline project to be a “bad...
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(Afghanistan/USA) Afghans’ views on the Doha peace process and the Biden administration’s review of the US-Taliban peace agreement

Makhfi Azizi After briefly resuming on January 5, the intra-Afghan peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban have been slow to progress, and the two sides have not met since the...
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(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...
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(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/
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(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/
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(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...
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(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...
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(USA) Restoring non-discrimination to the 21st century’s most important network (Brookings)

Tom Wheeler For 16 years both Republican and Democrat FCCs worked to require that internet service providers (ISPs) deliver non-discriminatory access to their critical networks. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2021/02/25/restoring-non-discrimination-to-the-21st-centurys-most-important-network/
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(USA) A new geostrategic environment demands new principles for US multilateral diplomacy (Brookings)

William Burke-White In his first month in office, President Biden has taken important first steps “to begin restoring American engagement internationally and earn back our leadership position,...
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(USA) What should we expect from Biden’s commission on Supreme Court reform? (Brookings)

Russell Wheeler In an interview last October, candidate Joe Biden—pressed on whether he favored expanding the Supreme Court—repeated his skepticism but promised to name a bipartisan commission to...
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(USA/China) How global tech executives view U.S.-China tech competition (Brookings)

Christopher A. Thomas and Xander Wu The global technology industry is hedging its bets. As the United States and China compete for technological supremacy in advanced semiconductor...
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(USA) Student debt cancellation should consider wealth, not income (Brookings)

Andre M. Perry  and Carl Romer As enrollment numbers and tuition at higher education institutions grow, the rise in student debt is outpacing both. According to the Pew...
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(USA) Agencies should plan now for future efforts to automatically sunset their rules (Brookings)

Martin Totaro and Connor Raso Federal agencies perpetually confront the problem of ensuring that the regulations they adopt work as anticipated. https://www.brookings.edu/research/agencies-should-plan-now-for-future-efforts-to-automatically-sunset-their-rules/
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(USA/UN Human Rights Council) UN Human Rights Council: As the US returns, it will have to deal with China and its friends (Brookings)

Ted Piccone As the Human Rights Council (HRC), the United Nations’ highest body for human rights, convenes this month for its first 2021 session, the...
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(USA/China) Delist or not delist: A $2.2 trillion US-China auditing dispute (Atlantic Council)

Jeremy Mark The economic and financial forces set in motion by the COVID-19 pandemic—global recession and ultra-loose monetary policies that have driven a cross-border search...
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(Iran/USA/China) Return to the Nuclear Agreement with Iran: Will China Facilitate United States Measures? (INSS)

Eyal Propper China has renewed its proposal to convene an international meeting of all parties to the nuclear deal with Iran (JCPOA), including the United...
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