The role of ASEAN in underpinning Asian security is vastly underestimated. To the security hard-heads this may seem a peculiar claim, especially in Washington where ASEAN is often seen as some kind of ...

Napoleon Bonaparte may have said that an army marches on its stomach, but it is perhaps even truer that a military force marches, sails, flies, and attacks on the back of its nation’s economy. Cripple ...

China has successfully circumvented America’s military-first security model, using lawfare, political warfare, predatory economics, and proxy forces to realize outcomes that were once only achievable ...

Siraj Wahhaj and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing . . . Again Audio By Carbonatix I wrote today for Politico on responding to the economic dimension of the era of Great Power competition that is ...

As former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson takes the helm of the State Department, economics returns to the center of America’s approach to the world. Most of the attention has focused on President ...

The recently concluded Central Economic Work Conference reaffirmed a core principle: Development is the ultimate form of security. In today's era of geopolitical fragmentation and supply chain ...