For the Department of State, one of its most important tools is the process of “determination” that a U.S. citizen or permanent resident is a “wrongful” detainee. The Levinson Act enumerates 11 ...

The data reveals notable patterns: Starting in September 2024, Shahed drone launches escalated sharply. Before this period, the average weekly launch rate was around 130. Within six months, the rate ...

While the US has been at the forefront of the theory and engineering that started in the 1950s and grew into the new world we confront today, its position is being challenged by the People’s Republic ...

The Decline of the U.S. Zinc Industry The United States was once the largest zinc processor in the world, with 19 processing plants in operation. 5 At the start of the Cold War, the U.S. government ...

China has been active in Antarctica for over 40 years and has four year-round stations: Great Wall station in the Peninsula with capacity for 60 people, Zhongshan station in Larsemann Hills with ...

Part I of the paper covers the initial impacts of the sanctions regime on the Russian economy. Next, Part II runs through the lessons Russia learned from the sanctions imposed in 2014, and how these ...

Innovation thrives on talent, and for decades, the U.S. has been a magnet for students pursuing advanced training in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Today, nearly half of graduates ...

Resetting the United States’ Focus on Congolese Mining There is now a unique window of opportunity to build U.S.-DRC minerals cooperation, for two emerging reasons. First, the intensifying conflict ...

While Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan all have the authority to impose end-user restrictions, their end-user authorities are more limited than the U.S. Entity List. For example, Japan’s end-user list ...

“The U.S. possesses all components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design, frontier algorithms, and, of course, transformational applications. Now the computing power this ...

Sketching a Supply Chain Securing critical minerals does not mean merely digging more of the necessary metals out of the ground in Canada; it requires thinking critically about mining, processing, ...

Chairman Gimenez, Ranking Member McIver, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, I am honored to share my views with you on this important topic. CSIS does not take policy positions, so the ...