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May 12, 2025

United States
Transition 2025 Series: National Security in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Panelists discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping the national security landscape and how government and technology leaders can respond to emerging threats, protect critical systems, and man…

Play U.S. Marines test night optics during Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2018 (ANTX-18) at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, U.S.

May 2, 2025

Daily News Brief
Trump Removes National Security Advisor

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day.  Subscribe to the Daily News Brief to receive it every weekday morning. …

U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz stands next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, March 7, 2025.

May 1, 2025

RealEcon
Place-Based Innovation and Its National Security Implications

Place-based innovation policy that harnesses talent in left-behind regions and communities could allow the United States to bolster its economic and national security goals at the same time.

Intel's Annual Manufacturing Technology Conference in San Jose, California

May 1, 2025

United States
The Stability of Nations and the Next World Order

Founder and CEO of AlphaGeo Parag Khanna discusses the rapidly evolving geopolitical system, how to comprehensively compare countries according to metrics that matter, and how ranking the stability o…

Play CEO of AlphaGeo Parag Khanna speas at the World Economic forum.

May 14, 2025

United States
Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: Zbig—The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet

Edward Luce discusses his new book, Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet. During the Cold War, the Polish-born scholar and presidential counselor, Zbigniew Brzezinski,…

Play Edward Luce discusses his new book, Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet. During the Cold War, the Polish-born scholar and presidential counselor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was a central figure in shaping U.S. foreign policy and helping to orchestrate the Soviet Union’s eventual collapse. Luce believes that Brzezinski’s legacy embodies the rise of foreign-born intellectuals in Washington’s strategic elite and is a powerful but often underappreciated thread in the story of America’

April 11, 2025

Military Operations
Trump’s DEI Purge in the Military Puts U.S. National Security at Risk

The administration’s “anti-DEI” campaign targets vital expertise and experience in government agencies.  

Midshipmen wait to march onto the field during the commissioning and graduation ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, U.S., May 24, 2024.

April 9, 2025

State and Local Governments (U.S.)
The Economic Case for Securing Ukraine

Heidi Crebo-Rediker, senior fellow in the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at CFR, discusses Ukraine’s mineral resources and their role in a negotiated settlement to end the war. Paige Gebhar…

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March 31, 2025

Trade
Critical Minerals Executive Order Leverages DFC and National Security Authorities

A brief analysis of the recent use of national security and foreign policy tools to promote domestic mineral production. 

Mine

April 4, 2025

RealEcon
Why Sub-Saharan Africa Matters for U.S. Economic and National Security

Building relationships with the region, rather than transactional neocolonialism, is the best route for strengthening the United States’ critical mineral supply chains.

U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Angolan President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco

March 24, 2025

Energy and Climate Policy
Will the International Energy Agency Keep Boosting Clean Energy?

The agency’s mandate has expanded from strengthening energy security to boosting the global clean energy transition, but it is facing pushback from critics who believe this mission undermines oil and…

A drone view shows a solar power plant and wind turbines in the Almaty region.