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As Trump Reshapes AI Policy, Here’s How He Could Protect America’s AI Advantage
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The nation that solidifies its AI advantage will shape the trajectory of the most transformative technology of our era....
By Janet Egan, Paul Scharre & Vivek Chilukuri
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Ukraine Symposium – The Continuing Autonomous Arms Race
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This war-powered technology race does not appear to be losing steam, and what happens on the battlefields of Ukraine can potentially define how belligerents use military auton...
By Samuel Bendett
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Firing Civil Servants and Dismantling Government Departments Is How Aspiring Strongmen Consolidate Personal Power – Lessons from Around the Globe
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Bureaucracies, in this way, are an important part of democracy that constrain executive behavior....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The Superpower Has Left the Building: Munich 2025
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Behind the frustration and fears of abandonment lies a major question: What will — what can — Europe do about it?...
By Richard Fontaine
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Gaza After Hamas
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To permanently remove Hamas from power, the United States must work alongside its Arab and Israeli partners to support the PA’s return to Gaza....
By Delaney Soliday
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Beyond DeepSeek: How China’s AI Ecosystem Fuels Breakthroughs
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While the United States should not mimic China’s state-backed funding model, it also can’t leave AI’s future to the market alone....
By Ruby Scanlon
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France Pursues an AI “Third Way”
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This AI third way is not AI sovereignty in a traditional sense, which at a high level is a nation’s policy of placing the development, deployment, and control of AI models, in...
By Pablo Chavez
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How Can We Develop AI That Helps, Rather Than Harms, People?
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In every technological revolution, we face a choice: build for freedom or watch as others build for control. With AI the stakes couldn’t be higher. It already mediates 20 per ...
By Brendan McCord
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Trump and Erdogan Have The Chance To Reset U.S.-Turkey Relations
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Turkey’s role as a middle power becomes more valuable in a shifting world order....
By Gibbs McKinley & Kate Johnston
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A World Safe for Prosperity
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U.S. President Donald Trump jolted the global economy this past weekend when he announced sweeping tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico, the United States’ three largest tradi...
By Geoffrey Gertz & Emily Kilcrease
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Sharper: Iran and the Axis of Upheaval
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Despite suffering geopolitical setbacks since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel, a potentially nuclear Iran continues to pose a significant threat to U.S. and allied interes...
By Delaney Soliday & Charles Horn
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The World Has Changed Since Trump’s First Trade War. Other Countries Are Ready to Fight Back.
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With so many countries armed and ready, the challenge for Trump will be to use economic weapons to advance U.S. interests without leaving America isolated or ruining the world...
By Edward Fishman
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Around the Table with Anna Pederson
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Around the Table is a three-question interview series from the Make Room email newsletter. Each edition features a conversation with a peer in the national security community ...
By Anna Pederson
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Trump Wants a Nuclear Deal. Can He Be the Ultimate Negotiator?
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Should Trump negotiate with Russia’s Putin, and what terms should he pursue if US and global security is to be enhanced?...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Russia Wants a New World Order
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Undermining the cohesion and enlargement of the EU and NATO is part of Moscow’s desire to enhance its status as a great power, discredit key pillars of the liberal internation...
By Kate Johnston & Nicholas Lokker
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Trump Should Support European AI Allies
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As the US assesses its technology relationship with Europe, Poland and the Baltic states operating could be strong partners in addressing the administration’s concerns about E...
By Pablo Chavez
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Don’t Talk About the War
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Confronting aggressors and getting them to the negotiation table requires both carrots and sticks—in other words, diplomacy and military power....
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Sharper: Trump's First 100 Days
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Donald Trump takes office in a complex and volatile global environment. Rising tensions with China, the continued war in Ukraine, and instability in the Middle East all pose s...
By Charles Horn
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Set the Tone, Establish Policy, Hire Personnel—And Prepare for Crisis
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President Donald Trump enters office at a critical moment and faces multiple crises...
By Richard Fontaine
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Publish an Economic Security Strategy
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The Trump administration should publish an official economic security strategy that sets a vision for the U.S. role in the global economy...
By Geoffrey Gertz & Emily Kilcrease
