Critical Minerals Crime
Jennifer Scotland | 2025.12.19
To curtail the exploitation of critical mineral supply chains by criminal actors, lessons can be drawn from the example of gold mining.
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Russia’s Wartime Economy
Richard Connolly | 2025.12.18
Russia’s practice of state seizure is growing at pace, as it reappropriates businesses and assets from those the regime considers disloyal.
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Russa’s Non-State Actors
Eginhards Volāns, et al. | 2025.12.18
Russia’s employment of non-state actors (NSA) is a staple of its approach to hybrid threat operations.
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On The Horizon
Doreen Horschig, et al. | 2025.12.18
This report explores the future of nuclear strategy, offering perspectives from emerging experts on disruptive technology, intensifying geopolitical rivalries, and strategic stability.
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Japan’s National Preparedness
Daniel Byman, et al. | 2025.12.18
Japan has many strengths for tremendous potential of resilience. However, further investments are required to bolster relatively undeveloped elements of national security resilience that China or another foe may seek to exploit.
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Euro-Atlantic Security
Ed Arnold and Darya Dolzikova | 2025.12.18
This paper highlights the urgent need for Europe to reshape its security framework to address emerging threats and ensure long-term stability and strategic advantage against the most significant challenges to its security since 1945.
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Another Nuclear Age
Paul Bracken | 2025.12.18
This is the second nuclear age. It retains many of the characteristics of the first, but reframes how we think about the future.
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Foreign Influence In Japan
Naoki Takeda | 2025.12.17
This paper examines Japan’s vulnerability to foreign influence and proposes legislative measures, drawing lessons from the UK, the US and Australia.
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Drones And Components
Mirko Niederkofler | 2025.12.17
Ukraine’s drone success holds a deeper lesson for NATO: technological sovereignty at the component level is essential to future battlefield dominance.
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China In Southeast Asia
Lauren Mai and Andreyka Natalegawa | 2025.12.17
With the Trump administration revoking Biden-era programs to support energy transitions in Southeast Asia, there is a widening funding gap that China is poised to fill.
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