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May 1, 2024 | 
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Michelle G. Kurilla
CHIP WARWhat Is the CHIPS Act? Published 1 May 2024Extraordinary U.S. government incentives are proving popular with many large chipmakers, but it is too early to tell how much of the semiconductor industry can be lured back to the United States. The CHIPS and Science Act marks a substantial ramp-up of industrial policy in the United States. The legislation is sparking a great deal of investment activity in the U.S. semiconductor sector, but several challenges and potential pitfalls lie ahead.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
cfr.org | Michelle G. Kurilla
The CHIPS and Science Act marks a substantial ramp-up of industrial policy in the United States. The legislation is sparking a great deal of investment activity in the U.S. semiconductor sector, but several challenges and potential pitfalls lie ahead. More From Our Experts Supporters see the policy—and the far-larger Inflation Reduction Act [PDF]— as a much-needed investment in critical technologies at a time of growing geopolitical friction and climate change.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Norbert Röttgen |Michelle G. Kurilla |David Sacks
With Ukrainian forces stalled on the battlefield, and major aid packages for Kyiv blocked by Hungary in the EU and by Republican policymakers in the United States, the Western alliance in support of Ukraine appears increasingly weak and divided. Several scholars and policymakers have assessed this scenario—and reached the conclusion that a pivot to a defensive strategy could eventually bring Putin to the negotiating table.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Timothy Naftali |Joshua Kurlantzick |Michelle G. Kurilla |Richard N. Haass
After more than six decades on the world’s stage, during which he both brilliantly persuaded and deceived the powerful and created state-to-state relationships that survive him, Henry Kissinger now belongs to the history he helped make. The only American official ever to have held all of the levers of foreign-policy making—for two years he served simultaneously as national security adviser and secretary of state—he has no peers in the history of U.S. foreign relations in the superpower era.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Andrei Kolesnikov |Joshua Kurlantzick |Michelle G. Kurilla |Richard N. Haass
“If there is Putin, there is Russia; if there is no Putin, there is no Russia,” the current speaker of the State Duma, the aggressive loyalist Vyacheslav Volodin, pronounced, back in 2014. He was outlining an ideal autocracy, one in which the country would be equated with its ruler and vice versa. At the time Volodin spoke those words, the Kremlin was basking in an upsurge of national euphoria following the annexation of Crimea.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Farah Pandith |Michelle G. Kurilla
Everyone can agree: Chinese economic growth is slowing. After Chinese President Xi Jinping lifted the country’s strict COVID-19 restrictions in December 2022, many expected the Chinese economy to surge, but after a brief post-COVID bounce, it appears to be losing some of its vitality. What are the causes of this stagnation? That is a question of intense debate, and China’s ability to recover and the future of U.S. policy largely depend on how it is answered.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Daphné Richemond-Barak |Inu Manak |Michelle G. Kurilla
No blueprint exists for the ground assault that Israel has launched in the Gaza Strip. Israel must balance its stated objective of eliminating Hamas’s subterranean military capabilities with the need to protect its troops in a highly volatile environment, and it must do so while minimizing harm to the innocent population of Gaza and to Israeli nationals and others who have been taken hostage. For these reasons, Israel’s ground assault is guaranteed to be a slow and difficult operation.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Richard Gowan |Inu Manak |Michelle G. Kurilla
Ever since 1947, when the United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, the organization has grappled with crises in the Middle East. In recent decades, discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the UN have featured the same basic dynamic: the United States uses its veto to block criticism of Israel at the Security Council while Arab states rally developing countries to defend the Palestinians.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Salam Fayyad |Inu Manak |Michelle G. Kurilla |Kat Duffy
For the past decade, it has been clear that the “peace process” between Israelis and Palestinians long ago devolved into little more than an extended exercise in kicking the can down the road. Still, in recent years, the absence of sustained large-scale violence produced the illusion of stability. Even those who had not been lulled into complacency were shocked, however, by the outbreak of the devastating war that has been raging since Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Yasheng Huang |Michelle G. Kurilla |Kat Duffy
As China’s economy steadily grew in recent decades, its advocates championed the country as an antithesis—and an antidote—to liberal economics and politics. This argument seemed credible as China grew rapidly under an autocratic and economically statist system. At the same time, the United States—that beacon of Western democracy—was suffering from economic and political sclerosis.
