The author would like to extend special thanks to Dewjeong Lee for her substantive research and project management support. The United States has recently pursued “friendshoring” of supply chains to ...

The 2024 Ketagalan Forum: Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue, held on August 21, convened scholars and former diplomats from North America, Europe, and Taiwan to explore strategies for strengthening ...

Economic security has been hitting the headlines in recent years, with the catchcry that “economic security is national security” underpinning many countries’ view of the world today. While there is ...

Welcome to the Economic Security Spotlight, a bi-weekly newsletter from the newly established CSIS Economic Security and Technology (EST) Department. We launched this department with the recognition ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Top-ranked economist, futurist, keynote speaker, bestselling author. The forceful Realpolitik application of U.S. trade policies ...

Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng presented his credentials to President Joe Biden at the Oval Office on a humid summer afternoon in 2023. Less well-known is that following his presentation, Xie’s first ...

Middle powers such as South Korea and Germany are at risk of becoming victims of great power politics in light of growing China-U.S. frictions. Faced with similar challenges from trade protectionism, ...

As economic security policies gain ground across major APEC economies, the forum has remained largely silent on the issue. While framed as national security, these policies often undermine the liberal ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. For most of the postwar period, U.S. international economic policy was primarily aimed at seizing opportunities: opening global markets, ...

Strategic competition over the world’s next generation of foundational technologies is underway, and U.S. advantages in artificial intelligence, quantum, and biotechnology are increasingly contested.

A family of four in the northeastern U.S. needed to earn close to $151,100 in 2022 to be economically secure, according to a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank. The Urban Institute, a nonprofit ...

This commentary is part of a report from the CSIS Economic Security and Technology Department, titled Staying Ahead in the Global Technology Race. The report features a set of essays outlining key ...