Elaine Dezenski

December 3, 2024 | Max Meizlish, Elaine K. Dezenski

To defend Taiwan tomorrow, we must prepare to sanction China today 

Excerpt Taiwan is reportedly considering a $15 billion military package as an overture to President-elect Trump. This comes just as the island nation agreed to spend over $2 billion...

October 11, 2024 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Book Chapter — Throwing Cold Water on the New Cold War

How the World’s Democracies Can Win

October 2, 2024 | Elaine K. Dezenski, Niko Stavropolous

Europe’s difficult path on China’s EVs is a lesson for North America

North America and Europe are facing an economic security crisis in the making, as China muscles its emerging electric vehicle monopolies and overcapacity into the Western market ...

January 9, 2024 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Kleptocrats in democracy’s clothing: Beijing and Moscow talk anti-corruption at the UN

Redefining terms like anti-corruption, human rights, democracy, and integrity — even when self-evidently disingenuous — provides China the cover to mimic the mechanisms of good governance while blunting...

September 20, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski, David Rader

How China Uses Shipping for Surveillance and Control

Beijing’s global maritime operations double as intelligence-gathering outposts.

September 5, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

America Needs to Leverage its Power to Stabilize Latin America and Stop Chinese Influence in the Region

In the aftermath of 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could count on and leverage the primacy of U.S. global leadership and economic influence to address a range of foreign threats...

August 14, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Biden Establishes Review Process to Regulate China-Bound Investment in Key Industries 

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that enables the Treasury Department to review and block outbound private-sector investment in China within key industries that are critical to...

March 3, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Democratic backsliding harms the potential of a US-Mexico supply chain pivot

Mexico remains one of the United States’ most important allies and trading partners, but its engagement with the U.S. is cycling between two seemingly opposing trends: the desire to attract more...

December 25, 2022 | John Austin, Elaine K. Dezenski

Tweaking the Inflation Reduction Act Can Strengthen Democracies’ Hand

“Made in Democracy” is a better label than “Made in America” if the goal is to strengthen our collective Western economies as well as our political alliances.

November 2, 2022 | John Austin, Elaine K. Dezenski

Made in America? Try Made in Democracy.

Excerpt President Biden is attempting to reassert U.S. global leadership and rally democracies to outcompete China and other authoritarian regimes that threaten a democratic, rules-based global political...

October 23, 2022 | John Austin, Elaine K. Dezenski

Democracy Needs a New Sales Pitch

Here’s how to get the world excited about it again.

March 28, 2022 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

Global Supply Chains Are Driving Conflict. They Can Be Rewired for Peace.

The immediate path to stopping Vladimir Putin’s brazen and brutal war in Ukraine may not be entirely clear, just yet. But one thing is certain: global supply chain dependencies on Russian oil and natural...

September 10, 2020 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

‘Ally-shoring’ will help US rebuild economy and global leadership

Excerpt Like a giant global pause button, the COVID-19 crisis has forced us to look hard at our world, our relationships with people and governments across continents. It has also made vivid the fragility...

May 27, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Communist China’s imperialist dreams

The Belt and Road Initiative is about more than infrastructure