June 18, 2021

Impressions and conclusions from President Biden’s first international trip

Following President Biden's first international trip of his presidency, seven foreign policy experts describe their impressions and conclusions from the atmosphere and results of the G-7, NATO, U.S.-EU, and U.S.-Russia summits in Europe.

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What investors and the SEC can learn from the Texas power crises

In a joint report from Brookings and the Environmental Defense Fund, David G. Victor, Stephanie H. Jones, Gabriel Malek, and Michael Panfil examine the Texas power crisis as a case study on how public companies respond to disclosure rules. 

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Afghanistan after American withdrawal

In a series of three blog posts, Vanda Felbab-Brown contends that there are at least four conceivable scenarios for Afghanistan in the next three to five years and lays out key internal Afghan factors influencing the likelihood for each scenario to materialize.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

International affairs

U.S.-Russia relations. It's too early to tell whether or not the Putin-Biden meeting advanced Biden’s objective of building a stable and predictable U.S.-Russia relationship, writes Steven Pifer.

U.S. Energy. Samantha Gross explains on an episode of The Current podcast the implications of the Keystone pipeline's cancelation for other pipeline projects, U.S. emissions, and the future of fossil fuel infrastructure. 

The future of NATO. To chart its future role in the world, NATO needs to address the core question of its geographical scope, as well as confront issues with coherence and capacity, posits Bruce Jones.

Ideological competition. Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss urge in an article for Foreign Affairs that the dangers of conceiving of U.S.-Chinese competition as a global contest between democratic and autocratic systems outweigh the benefits.

Countering disinformation. Successfully countering disinformation on encrypted messaging applications does not require undermining end-to-end encryption, argue Jacob Gursky and Samuel Woolley in a new policy brief.