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Semiconductor products are displaeyd on a white table at a conference in eastern China.

Lagging but motivated: The state of China’s semiconductor industry

Christopher A. Thomas

Thursday, January 7, 2021

New voices from Afghanistan

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EST

California, United States.- In the photo taken on December 31, 2020, a health worker prepares to extract a dose of the vaccine. A nurse tested positive for coronavirus in the United States days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The 45-year-old man works in the emergency services of a hospital in the Californian city of San Diego and was vaccinated on December 18. The experts assured that this is not "something unexpected".

How to increase vaccination and mask-wearing to defeat COVID-19

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Michael Sinclair

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

A Honduran migrant trying to reach the U.S. with his sons talks to Guatemalan soldiers blocking a road to stop migrants from reach the Mexico's border, in San Pedro Cadenas, Izabal, Guatemala October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria

How the Biden administration can get the Global Fragility Strategy right

Patrick W. Quirk and Richmond Blake

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Susan Rice, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's appointee to be director of his Domestic Policy Council, speaks after Biden announced her appointment among another round of nominees and appointees for his administration during a news conference at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., December 11, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Under Susan Rice, will there be increased overlap between the Domestic Policy Council and the National Security Council?

Michael Sinclair

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

A police officer keeps watch at a crime scene, where two men were found in the trunk of a car shot to death, according to local media, in San Pedro Garza Garcia, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico December 8, 2020. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

Crime and anti-crime security policy in Mexico in 2020

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, January 4, 2021

Women walk past damaged buildings at the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the southern outskirts of Damascus, Syria December 1, 2020. Picture taken December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Reframing US Syria policy: The road to Damascus runs through Moscow

Daniel L. Magruder Jr. and Rodrick H. McHaty

December 2020

A pedestrian wearing gloves, goggles and a mask walks by the State Department in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 2020 amid the Coronavirus pandemic. After extended negotiations over an additional $500 billion in stimulus funding in response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, the U.S. Congress is set send another economic relief bill to President Trump to sign into law after a House vote later today. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

To rebuild the foreign service, avoid an “amnesty” and promote functional roles

Jeffrey Feltman

Monday, December 28, 2020

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley gives remarks during the 19th annual September 11 observance ceremony at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., September 11, 2020. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo

Russia, China, and the risks of war: My conversation with General Mark Milley

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks as a screen displays the letter he sent to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden during a news conference at the National Palace, in Mexico City, Mexico December 15, 2020. Mexico's Presidency/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

A dangerous backtrack on the US-Mexico security relationship

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, December 21, 2020