A Bipartisan Fix, 30 Years in the Making
Bipartisan lawmaking is alive and well, at least when it comes to a dangerous but little-known loophole in America’s system for enforcing trade policy. This flaw can be seen in the case of $14.4 million...
United States Customs and Border Protection
Trump Signs Executive Order Addressing Structural Gaps in Trade Enforcement
High tariffs create strong incentives to evade them. More than 40 percent of textile shipments flagged for analysis by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were either “mis-declared or mis-described”...
Policy Briefs
A Gameplan for American Economic Security:
Supercharging U.S. Statecraft, from an Economic Pentagon to the Near-Global Economy
Memos
Alleged Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine member, October 7 attack participant arrested in Louisiana
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday that it had arrested 33-year-old Mahmoud Amin Yaqub al Muhtadi in Louisiana. The DOJ alleged that Muhtadi was a member of the Democratic...
Op-eds
The Iran-Israel War Returns to the Shadows, for Now
The war between Iran and Israel has returned to the shadows. Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have resumed attacks against Israeli territory and struck commercial vessels in the Red Sea. Closer to home,...
Policy Briefs
A deported Brown University professor’s Hezbollah ties
On March 13, Dr. Racha Alawieh, an assistant professor of medicine at Brown University, was denied entry into the United States and ordered deported back to her native Lebanon.
Op-eds
Countering Threats Posed by the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Security
Legislative Testimonies
Laser Focus: Countering China’s LiDAR Threat to U.S. Critical Infrastructure and Military Systems
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Memos
Iran on the March: Restoring Deterrence and Stability in the Middle East
A Response By Richard Goldberg
Op-eds
Security Risk
The Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration
Legislative Testimonies
Countering Threats Posed by Nation-State Actors in Latin America to U.S. Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence
Legislative Testimonies
Strategy for a New Comprehensive U.S. Policy on Iran
Monographs
FDD’s Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: The Year in Review
Memos
Elemental Strategy
Countering the Chinese Communist Party’s Efforts to Dominate the Rare Earth Industry
Memos
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: October
Policy Tracker
Amazon Pays a Fine for Crimea Business, but Occupied-Territories Policy Remains Murky
Amazon.com, Inc., settled with the U.S. Department of the Treasury earlier this month for violating U.S. sanctions by delivering products to Crimea, a region of Ukraine under Russian occupation, and several...
Insights
Occupied Elsewhere
Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes
Monographs
Attacking Hezbollah’s Financial Network: Policy Options
Download the full testimony here. I...
Legislative Testimonies
How the United States Mislabels Israel
Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky In a move uncharacteristic of U.S. policy as it has been carried out for decades, the Obama administration recently endorsed Europe’s version...
Op-eds
Anti-Money Laundering and Terror Finance Expert Joins FDD’s Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance
Washington, DC -- John Cassara, a 26-year federal intelligence and law enforcement veteran and expert o...