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Understanding CCP Resilience: Surveying Chinese Public Opinion Through Time

This policy brief reviews the findings of the longest-running independent effort to track Chinese citizen satisfaction of government performance.

The Indispensable Power: On Restoring American Leadership through Diplomacy

As a former career Foreign Service officer, Ambassador Nicholas Burns spent four decades of his professional life representing the United States overseas and teaching about America’s role as the indis

Centering Human Subjects: The Ethics of “Desk Research” on Political Violence

Quantitative data about political violence are frequently based on “desk research,” data derived from secondary sources that do not require direct contact between researchers and participants, such as

A Planned Kosovo-Serbia Meeting at the White House is Falling Apart. It was Always a Bad Idea

Kosovo, a major preoccupation for Washington in decades past, is back in the news in Washington.

Recommendations for the National Strategic Pandemic Stockpile

In 2002, the federal government established the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), a pharmaceutical and vaccine stockpile, jointly managed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Departm

Oil’s Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise

How the COVID-19 Era Will Change National Security Forever

Speaking before the U.N. in 1987, President Ronald Reagan said, “Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize [our] common bond.

Oil Markets Provide a Glimpse of the Post-Pandemic Future

The Rise of China

Facing a new era of U.S.-China relations, the Aspen Strategy Group (ASG) brought together a collection of seventy legislators, policy makers, scholars, journalists, and private sector leaders to discu

Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American Foreign Relations

In the last three decades, historians of the “U.S.