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July 24, 2023 | Amit Sharma

Achieving Financial Inclusion in an Evolving Economic Landscape

Virtual assets and an open web-enabled infrastructure for data are the new frontier for global geo-politics and economics. Better financial regulatory guidance will ensure good governance and help bring about more fairness, security, and inclusivity in our financial system, writes Amit Sharma.

March 17, 2023 | Amit Sharma, Elaine K. Dezenski

Building Virtue Into Virtual Assets

Virtual asset providers face a host of constraints that erode their reputation and promise. Yet they can still reach their lofty potential of bring more inclusive and verifiable means of exchange by demonstrating virtuous engagement with global financial sytems, write Amit Sharma and Elaine Dezenski

October 12, 2022 | Leon Panetta |

If Putin Uses Nukes in Ukraine, the U.S. Must Respond with Military Force

Russia simply cannot be allowed to unleash nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

August 3, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Facing failure in Lebanon

Why the U.S. should stop subsidizing Tehran’s proxy

April 20, 2022 | Nadia Schadlow, Brady Helwig

Ukraine war shows America could be outgunned without investing in energetics

Energetic materials — critical chemicals that help determine the range, size, and explosive power of missiles and rockets — are in dangerously short supply for American interests, write Nadia Schadlow and Brady Helwig of the Hudson Institute.

October 22, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

One Term of ‘Maximum Pressure’ on North Korea

A new book from H.R. McMaster offers a look back at Trump's attempted containment and wooing of Kim Jong-un.

October 7, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

McMaster and commander in chief

The former national security advisor on the urgent need for “strategic competence”

July 1, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Meet the restrainers

They want to make America second-rate again

June 23, 2020 | David Kilcullen |

America in 2020: “Insurrection” or “Incipient Insurgency”?

In the two weeks of disorder that followed the death of George Floyd, 200 cities imposed curfews; 31 states and the District of Columbia called out the National Guard; active-duty U.S. troops deployed in...

May 6, 2020 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Contagion of Chinese Corruption Will Threaten Post-Pandemic Recovery In Developing World

Eventually, the COVID-19 pandemic will end. When it does, the economic devastation the pandemic has left behind will become the overriding concern of governments worldwide. Today, China is working to burnish...

September 3, 2019 | |

FDD Names Board of Advisors to Help Guide Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation

(Washington, DC, September 3, 2019) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) today announced 21 experts who will serve as members of the Board of Advisors for its Center on Cyber and Technology...

March 29, 2019 | LTG (Ret.) Ed Cardon |

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Edward C. Cardon Named to Board of Advisors of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power

(Washington, D.C., March 29, 2019) – Lieutenant General (retired) Edward C. Cardon has joined the Board of Advisors for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ (FDD) Center on Military and Poli...

January 31, 2019 |

New FDD Report Assesses First Two Years of Trump Administration’s Foreign and National Security Policies

FDD Scholars Provide Nonpartisan Analysis of 21 Key Areas of Global and Regional Instability

January 22, 2019 |

FDD Launches New Center on Military and Political Power

Names H.R. McMaster as Chairman and Bradley Bowman as Senior Director

March 23, 2018 | Samantha Ravich

Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare: Assessing US Strategy

Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia...

December 16, 2016 | |

FDD’s CSIF Initiates New Project to Study Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare

(Washington, D.C., Dec. 16 2016) – Recognizing the significant gap in U.S. strategic thinking about how adversaries may use cyberattacks to disrupt the U.S. economy and threaten its nationa...

August 28, 2015 | Juan C. Zarate, Chip Poncy

Using Financial Sticks to Control Iran

As Congress considers the Iranian nuclear deal, it should also prepare a strategy to use U.S. financial and economic power aggressively against a broad array of Iranian thre...

April 22, 2015 | Juan C. Zarate

How Financial Power Can Be Used To Save Iconic Species From Extinction

On Earth Day 2015, prospects for many of the planet’s most iconic species look bleak. Unless poaching rates decline across Africa, the rhino and elephant ...

January 23, 2015 | FDD Press Release

FDD Names Board of Advisors to Help Guide Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance

WASHINGTON – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies today announced 18 experts who will serve as members of the Board of Advisors for its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF)....

April 28, 2011 | Clifford D. May

Marine Corps and Peace Corps

I was north of Kandahar, flying in a helicopter with an American general who was telling me more than I could absorb about rural irrigation systems. I asked if he had ever imagined, back when he...