Federal Reserve System

December 19, 2022 | Samantha Ravich, Sergio Rodriguera Jr.

FTX’s Collapse Is a Win for National Security

The collapse of cryptocurrency giant FTX is a net positive for U.S. national security. While we should applaud innovation and encourage responsible risk-taking, the rapid rise of barely regulated currencies...

March 21, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

Vandenberg Coalition Afghanistan Working Group Report

Executive Summary The Vandenberg Coalition Afghanistan Working Group convened a diverse group of national security professionals to develop policy recommendations for the Biden administration and Congress...

November 24, 2021 | Clifford D. May

Biden’s left banker

A nominee with a colorful story and ‘radical’ beliefs

September 8, 2021 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Matthew Zweig, Richard Goldberg

Biden Is Running a Hostage Negotiation With the Taliban

Making concessions now will only encourage terrorism.

August 31, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Financial Watchdog Cracks Down on Turkish Public Lender’s German Subsidiary

Germany’s financial regulatory authority on August 26 announced a series of punitive measures against an unnamed financial institution that journalists have identified as Ziraat Bank International AG,...

July 10, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir |

COVID-19 and Erdogan’s Power Consolidation

Since the rise to power of the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey in 2002, its leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used successive crises as pretexts to consolidate power that has...

June 5, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Saeed Ghasseminejad

COVID-19 in Iran and Turkey: Mismanagement, Crackdowns, Economic Crises, and Corona-Diplomacy

Iran and Turkey have been the two countries in the Middle East hardest hit by COVID-19. Their respective epidemics – which both governments have largely mismanaged – have amplified their democratic...

May 5, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Luc Sasseville

Trump Should Not Fall For Erdogan’s S-400 Gambit

Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent two military planeloads of medical aid to the United States, alongside a letter praising “the spirit of solidarity” he has displayed during...

February 4, 2020 | Brenna Knippen, Trevor Logan

Turkey’s Pro-Government Hackers Grow Bolder

British and American officials have attributed a sweeping cyber-espionage campaign to hackers aligned with the Turkish government. The discovery of Ankara’s brazen cyber offensive, whose main targets...

October 11, 2018 | Yaya J. Fanusie |

Seeking Sanctions Resistance Through Blockchain Technology

Policy experts can argue about the appropriateness of various sanctions policies. Some voice concerns that the U.S. ...

August 13, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey’s perfect storm

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, came to power on the heels of the 2001 financi...

December 1, 2016 | Yaya J. Fanusie |

Blockchain tech is our financial future — America can get ahead of it

It may not have the sexiest of titles, but the new Congressional Blockchain Caucus could not have come at a better time. Created by two lawmakers this fall, the ...

October 31, 2016 | Yaya J. Fanusie

Protections Against Digital Bank Robbers

Bonnie and Clyde are a thing of the past. Bank robberies have declined in the past several years, a function in part of improved security measures. Instead, criminals have turned to robbing banks...

October 28, 2016 | Yaya J. Fanusie |

Protections Against Digital Bank Robbers

Bonnie and Clyde are a thing of the past. Bank robberies have declined in the past several years, a function in part of improved security measures. Instead, criminals have turned to robbing banks...

September 20, 2016 | Eric B. Lorber |

Don’t Give Iran Cash

Iran is once again the center of a heated debate between the Barack Obama administration and Republicans in Congress, this time over whether the United States’ $1.7...

March 19, 2015 |

Oil Prices Cripple Iraq’s ISIS War

Co-authored by Daniel R. DePetris Iraq had a miserable 2014. The Islamic State (IS) reentered the country in large numbers early in the year, routing the Iraqi security forces i...

September 15, 2014 | Merve Tahiroglu FDD Policy Brief |

Turkey’s State-Owned Bank Probed By the New York Fed

The United States Federal Reserve launched a probe last week into the New Y...

August 13, 2012 | Mark Dubowitz |

So You Want to Be a Sanctions-Buster

It’s easy -- if you try hard enough and have the right friends! Here’s a handy how-to guide to making moolah from the mullahs.

April 9, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

It’s Time to Add Syria to Kofi Annan’s Long List of Failures

It should have raised red flags when both Syria and Russia approved of Kofi Annan’s February 23 appointment as the Uni...

January 23, 2012 |

A Radical’s Radical

In early May, a little over a week after President Barack Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Texas congressman Ron Paul staked out his position on the man who plotted...