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Emerging Threats: Out of the Loop: The Human-free Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

by Shane Harrisvia Analysis
Sunday, January 19, 2014

As aircraft and weapons have become more precise, human beings have become less essential to the conduct of war. 

Emerging Threats: Invisible Threats

by Gabriella Blumvia Analysis
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Technology is progressing at record speed to produce insect-size robots (“spiders”) with lethal capabilities, potentially on a mass scale. 

Grand Strategy Essay Series

Complexity and the Misguided Search for Grand Strategy

by Amy Zegartvia Analysis
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Amy Zegart argues that the number, identity, and magnitude of dangers threatening American interests are wildly uncertain, and that this makes searching for a single grand strategy unwise.

Grand Strategy Essay Series

Strategy’s First Steps

by Admiral Gary Rougheadvia Analysis
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Admiral Gary Roughead argues that a discussion of grand strategy must start with an honest and accurate assessment of the country’s current global position: “When in a precarious navigational situation at sea, the first question asked is, where am I?” He identifies five current and anticipated trends that should shape that assessment.

Thinking Historically about Grand Strategy

by David M. Kennedyvia Analysis
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

David M. Kennedy places the group’s work within a historical context, showing that “[i]solationism was, arguably, the most long-lived and successful grand strategy” in the nation’s history. One lesson from that history that might prove instructive today is that sharp calculations of cost should be weighed against the prospective benefits of any foreign policy initiative.

Thoughts on U.S. Strategy

by Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberryvia Analysis
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Karl Eikenberry examines the country’s past national security strategies and finds that their articulation of American interests has been consistent since the early days of the Cold War. What has changed is the underlying set of assumptions about U.S. economic strength and the domestic foundations of power that allow us to pursue those interests.

The Domestic Foundations of American Grand Strategy

by Mariano-Florentino Cuéllarvia Analysis
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar discusses domestic sources of national power and identifies four issues that should loom large in discussions of America’s global strategy—education, immigration, fiscal policy, and institutional capacity.

Property as Platform: Coordinating Standards for Technological Innovation

by Henry E. Smithvia IP2 Working Paper Series
Monday, January 6, 2014

IP² Working Paper No. 14001 - This paper examines the coordination of inputs to the development and use of technology as a problem in the theory of property. Recent misunderstanding of property, in terms of both the substance of its rights and the implications of its remedies, have presented property as an obstacle to – rather than as a platform for – rapidly evolving technology.

Rethinking Macro: Reassessing Micro-Foundations

by Kevin Warshvia Economics Working Papers
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Economics Working Paper WP14103

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