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2023 February

The American Imperative

On Monday, February 20th, President Joe Biden visited Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. While Biden’s visit may have been shrouded in secrecy, his message was clear: the United States would continue to use its intelligence, military, and economic pressures to support Ukraine in defending itself from Russian aggression. The visit and the...

Industrial Policy In Focus 

In his State of the Union address last week, President Joe Biden declared his intent for the United States to lead the world in manufacturing and to restructure the supply chain to “[begin] in America.” He credited the bipartisan 2022 CHIPS and Science Act as the first significant step toward that goal, by providing an...

Implications of Georgia’s Democratic Backsliding 

On Monday, February 6, Georgia’s court rejected the release of their former president Mikheil Saakashvili. Saakashvili is a tragic hero in Georgian history, but he is mostly remembered for attempting to transform Georgia from a post-Soviet state into a liberal democracy. After coming to power following the Rose Revolution in 2003, Saakashvili rapidly perused policies to...

Ensuring Peace in Ethiopia

A peace deal between Ethiopia and Eritrea, signed in November with the goal of ending Ethiopia’s two-year civil war in the northern region of Tigray, is in jeopardy this week. Many local sources claim that Eritrean troops, which fought in cooperation with the Ethiopian military and friendly militias against rebel groups in Tigray, have remained...