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Loyal Paraguay: The Peña Government’s Strategic Choice to Stay with Taiwan

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From the Last Frontier to the Final Frontier: The Polar Regions and Space Security

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The Economic Argument for Keeping US Forces in Europe

Slide for "Election, Crisis, and US Opportunity"

South & Latin America

Election, Crisis, and U.S. Opportunity in Bolivia

From the Archives

8 Simmering Threats You Shouldn’t Ignore in 2025: A Plausibly Deniable Russian War Against Europe

A Plausibly Deniable Russian War Against Europe | John R. Deni, in Foreign Policy

Jan. 2, 2025 - The sabotage of undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea by the cargo ship Yi Peng 3 is only the latest in a series of asymmetric attacks against Western interests and infrastructure that appear to be connected in one...

2025: Possibilities for the Year to Come

Dec. 27, 2024 - 2025 is likely to be a transformative year for Latin America and the Caribbean, and its relationships with the United States, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and other actors. Although it is impossible to predict with...

Ecuador’s Evolving Engagement with the PRC

Dec. 24, 2024 - Under the current Ecuadorian government of Daniel Noboa, major infrastructure, financial, and security cooperation with China has been restrained, but political expediency may change that.In September 2024, Ecuadorian Economy...

It’s (Still) More Expensive to Rotate Military Forces Overseas than Base Them There

Dec. 19, 2024 - In mid-2020, then-President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to withdraw roughly one-third of US forces from Germany, reportedly because of policy differences with Berlin. Given how long it would take to implement such a...

Security Implications for the United States from Iranian and Hezbollah Activities in Latin America

Dec. 18, 2024 - This presentation will examine engagement with Latin America by Iran, its government agents, and surrogate groups such as Hezbollah, including terrorist finance, terrorism, and other activities and their evolution in recent...

Making the Case for Democratic, Limited Government and Economic Liberty in the Americas

Dec. 17, 2024 - This work is derived from an address given by the author to the InterAmerican Institute for Democracy on December 4, 2024, in Miami, Florida.In discussing the status of political and economic freedom in Latin America, my...

Will Assad’s Defeat be Putin’s Waterloo?

Dec. 10, 2024 - The narrative of Russia’s ascendancy in 2024 is beginning to look like more fiction than fact. The Assad regime in Syria has become a casualty of Moscow’s increasingly desperate efforts in Ukraine, and its collapse is a...

China’s Summit Diplomacy: Insights From BRICS, APEC and the G20

Nov. 26, 2024 - From late October through mid-November, China’s President Xi Jinping held high-profile engagements in three very different major international forums: the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia; the APEC Leadership Forum in Lima,...

Challenges and Opportunities for U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation

Nov. 26, 2024 - While policy clashes between the elected governments of Mexico and the United States in the coming years appear likely, the degree to which those tensions degrade the commercial relationship and security cooperation that is...