Category: Content Series

Gunships against ISIS

By James Hasik

The AC-130 isn’t a functional replacement for the A-10C, but could it be a political one? This past Monday, Lt. Col. Paul Darling of the Alaska Army National Guard wrote an editorial in Defense News arguing—and as an infantry officer—that the USAF’s A-10C should indeed be retired. The savings, he said, should be reinvested in two programs: a replacement […]

Chrismer on Split Between the West and BRICS Countries Over Ukraine

By Andrew Chrismer

Global Business and Economics Program Assistant Director Andrew Chrismer writes for The Hill’s Congress Blog on why the growing divide between the BRICS countries and the West over Ukraine could lead to a new era of bipolarity: 

Turning the Tides: The Role of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in TTIP

By Cale Rogoyski

The key to rallying support for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) among skeptical politicians and voters in the United States and the European Union may be to highlight the growing evidence showing that small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stand to gain greatly from a comprehensive TTIP agreement. While many skeptics characterize TTIP as […]

Chris Brummer Speaks On Self-Regulation In Financial Markets At CFA Institute

On June 12, 2014, Chris Brummer, C. Boyden Gray Fellow, delivered remarks Self-Regulation panel at CFA with Amarilis Sardenberg Chair of the Board of BM&FBOVESPA Market Supervision and Susan Wolburgh Jenah, the President and CEO of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada. [details here] On the panel, presenters highlighted the pivotal role of self […]

TTIP Action: June 12

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

One Engine or Two for Canada?

By James Hasik

The hard work of evaluating the suitability of the CF-35A Professor Michael Byers of the University of British Columbia has produced a report for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on the presumed preference of Harper Government for the F-35A Lightning II as the next fighter jet for the Royal Canadian Air Force. The title summarizes the argument: “One Dead Pilot: Single-Engine F-35 […]

TTIP Action: June 10

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

TTIP Action: June 5

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Money and Organization, or Rules and Norms?

By James Hasik

What limits the diffusion of dangerous weapons technologies to bad actors? Last week the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released its report Creative Disruption: Technology, Strategy, and the Future of the Global Defense Industry. My colleague Steve Grundman, our Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges, served on the panel that informed the work of authors Ben Fitzgerald […]

SpaceX President Speaks of Need to Rebuild US Dominance in Space

By Gwynne Shotwell

The Washington Post features the Brent Scowcroft Center of International Security’s event with President and COO of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell: