Harvard University

May 3, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

Washington Needs to Fight Russia’s Information War Using This Tactic

The US should turn Moscow’s 'reflexive control' tactic against the Kremlin: Instead of selling the American Dream, Washington should show Russians 'the Russian dream.'

March 22, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

The ‘Yugoslavia Scenario’: How Russia Intends to Use an Anniversary in Its Ongoing Information War

The Kremlin has used NATO’s 1999 intervention to justify Russia’s continual assaults on Ukraine, and won’t miss the upcoming opportunity to exploit this further.

February 22, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

Russia’s Hybrid War Against Montenegro

Irked by Montenegro’s accession to NATO, Russia and its traditional ally Serbia are trying to undermine democracy throughout the Balkans in their general strategy of dividing Europe.

March 28, 2022 | David Maxwell |

How To Respond To North Korea’s ICBM Test

On March 24, North Korea possibly tested its new Hwasong-17 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Kim Jong-un broke part of his self-imposed moratorium on ICBM (and nuclear) tests that he promised...

February 9, 2022 | Craig Singleton |

House bill seeks to prolong higher ed’s China hangover

Excerpt Last month, the House Rules Committee unveiled the America Competes Act, which promotes semiconductor production and boosts domestic research funding. The bill is part of a broader effort to better...

February 8, 2022 | Craig Singleton |

Higher Education’s Confucius Institute Hangover

How U.S. Universities Support Beijing’s Military-Industrial Complex

January 4, 2022 | Aykan Erdemir, Toby Dershowitz

It’s Time to End CNN’s License for CNN Turk’s Hate Content

Turkish media recently reported that CNN International is sending a team to Turkey to “look into its Turkish branch’s broadcasting policy,” which has been “under fire for its...

September 10, 2021 | Juan C. Zarate |

Juan C. Zarate ’97: ‘There’s a lot of presumption of the demise of American power, and I’m raging against that’

Former counterterrorism czar says the U.S. needs to reconceptualize what power means in the 21st century

February 24, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

What’s wrong with appeasement?

Only the fact that concessions don’t actually conciliate despots

January 23, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

The world doesn’t realize it’s already at war with China

India is a prime target for PRC’s political warfare. The PRC’s full political warfare force will be directed at weakening India, from funding NGOs in the US to (possibly) funding mobs to attack a Taiwanese manufacturing plant in Bengaluru.

November 24, 2020 | Craig Singleton |

Follow the Money: Exposing China’s Influence Operations at Academic Institutions and Think Tanks

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo issued an ultimatum last month to think tanks and academic institutions around the country: Publicly disclose funding received from foreign governments or risk losing access...

July 22, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Mike Pompeo’s fight for unalienable rights

The Human Rights Establishment wants him out of the marketplace of ideas

June 22, 2020 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

How to Beat China’s Military-Civil Fusion

China’s strategy relies on poaching foreign technology. Ours should be geared toward stopping them.

June 10, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Trump’s Executive Order on Chinese Students Addresses a Complicated—But Real—Issue

This issue requires a surgical scalpel, not a sledgehammer.

May 6, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

50,000 scholar NGO slams ‘antisemitic’ BDS prof., supports German rep.

“For cosmetic and political reasons BDS groups try, albeit unsuccessfully, to draw a distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism to soft peddle their racist policies."

April 24, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Philip Kowalski

Erdogan’s COVID-19 Cover-up Hampers Turkey’s Coronavirus Response

Turkey has overtaken China as the country with the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases outside the United States and European Union, reporting more than 100,000 cases as of April 23. Despite Turkish...

December 18, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Progress on ‘the Jewish question’

Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.

October 17, 2019 | David Adesnik, Aykan Erdemir

Trump’s first mistake in Syria was ever trusting Erdogan at all

President Trump’s deficient understanding of Muslims, many of whom are at the forefront of the fight against radical Islamism, leads him to see threats where none exist. It also prevents him from recognizing...

May 4, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran can cause a new Holocaust, warns Islam expert in Austrian Parliament

"If there is going to be a repeat of the Holocaust, it will not be in Europe - here people have matured - but in the Middle East."

November 29, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

Erdoğan’s Interests Converge with Putin in Moldova’s Gagauzia

BACKGROUND: On October 17, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan touched down in Chisinau for a ...