Mexico

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...

January 17, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

The Three Amigos Summit

President Biden doesn’t intend to defend America’s border

August 3, 2022 | John Austin, Elaine K. Dezenski

Workforce ‘ally-shoring’ brings benefits across borders

Excerpt After a swing and a miss with the Summit of the Americas, President Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s recent meeting at the White House was a critical opportunity to...

July 6, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Mystery Cargo

Senior Iranian and Venezuelan officials are traveling around the world on a cargo plane. Argentina detained them. But what are they up to?

June 2, 2022 | Jackie Wolcott, Anthony Ruggiero, Andrea Stricker

The U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Must Censure Iran

A new agreement with Tehran is pointless if IAEA inspectors are unable to do their jobs properly.

April 3, 2022 | Orde Kittrie |

How to Include Far More Lawfare Ammunition in Next UN General Assembly Resolution on Russian Invasion

On March 24, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted its second resolution addressing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.   Both this and the first resolution, adopted on March 2, symbolically demonstrated...

February 25, 2022 | Malcolm Warbrick |

Time to integrate State Partnership Program in Pentagon planning

As currently used, the program is a missed opportunity, especially when America needs to be strengthening its relationships abroad.

February 23, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Soleimani U

A new academic center in Caracas named after the Iranian mass murderer is the latest node in Tehran’s soft power network in Latin America

January 24, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero, Matthew Zweig

Biden’s North Korea Policy Needs Rebooting

A series of missile tests make it plain that carrots don’t work without sticks.

January 5, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The new conquistadores

U.S. adversaries are becoming South American hegemons

December 22, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Biden’s defense of democracy

It left a lot to be desired

December 2, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s Quest for Soleimani’s Revenge Goes to Latin America

Shortly after a U.S. strike killed Iran’s most senior general, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad in January 2020, both Iran and its terror proxy Hezbollah swore revenge. Nearly two years later, Iran and Hezbollah...

October 5, 2021 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

U.S. Must ‘Ally-shore’ to Reassure Partners, Reassert Power of Democracies

When we first introduced “ally-shoring” in Newsweek (seizing on then-USAID deputy administrator Bonnie Glick’s phraseology) as the most powerful path to rewire COVID-disrupted supply...

August 24, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How American Weapons Find Their Way to International Criminal Organizations

It’s a complex problem that won’t be solved by Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. manufacturers.

June 8, 2021 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

Rebuilding America’s economy and foreign policy with ‘ally-shoring’

Last month, President Joe Biden came to Michigan to push America to seize leadership in making electric vehicles—or risk ceding economic leadership in autos and other fields to China. In doing so, the...

June 1, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Underwriting Hezbollah Inc.

By funding the failed Lebanese state and lifting sanctions on Iran, the United States is partnering with the world’s deadliest crime syndicate

May 24, 2021 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

America needs healthy supply chains with allies

President Joe Biden recently came to Michigan — pushing America to seize leadership in making electric vehicles or risk ceding economic leadership in autos and other fields to China.  He held out...

April 22, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero, Andrea Stricker

OPCW Member States Hold Syria Accountable for Chemical Weapons Use

Eighty-seven member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) voted yesterday to suspend Syria’s voting rights in the organization. This was an appropriate, albeit overdue,...

April 13, 2021 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Theo Lebryk

China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan Shows Need for Renewed US Commitment to Internet Governance

China released its 14th Five-Year plan for economic development last month, including its intended next steps in technology. The blueprint makes clear that, even before the ink is dry on many 5G contracts...

March 26, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Social Media Is an Intel Gold Mine. Why Aren’t Governments Using It?

“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.