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Jan 3, 2025 | 
nationalinterest.org | Paul Saunders
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Subscribe to RSS Print Topic: Industrial Policy Region: Americas Tags: Industrial PolicyPoliticsU.S. SteelRussiaWorld War II Even as the Biden administration has imposed sanctions on thousands of Russian companies and individuals, the White House has avoided imposing sanctions on the Russian steelmaker.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
msn.com | Paul Saunders
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Paul Saunders
Reports that former President Donald Trump continued to communicate with Russian leader Vladimir Putin after leaving office seem likely to encourage new attention to Mr. Trump’s claim that he has an undefined plan to end the Ukraine War “before I even become president.” Many commentators assert that Trump’s plan could only succeed if the United States forces Kyiv into unilateral territorial concessions to Russia.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
russiamatters.org | Jo Inge Bekkevold |Paul Saunders |Harry Stevens |Marat Atnashev
This is a summary of an article originally published by Foreign Policy, with the subheading: "The Sino-Russian partnership is tighter than the Sino-Soviet one, with no reason for a split any time soon."
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Paul Saunders
Even as the United States and its allies work to diversify their supply chains to avoid over-dependence on geopolitical competitors, they are in simultaneous cooperation and competition with one another. In some areas, such as fossil fuels, the United States and its allies have complementary resources and needs. In others, like electric vehicles, U.S. and allied manufacturers compete with one another and with China.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Paul Saunders |Dov S. Zakheim |Thomas Graham
Even as Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region has prompted speculation surrounding the implications of Kyiv’s military successes for potential talks, Russian leaders have rejected negotiations amid assertions that Moscow won’t negotiate “under pressure.” Russia’s military has instead launched massive new attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Paul Saunders
Non-profit executive and thought leader on national security, foreign policy, energy and energy technology, climate change 1d China cannot be a global power if its border with Russia is not stable—border conflicts would become preoccupations to the exclusion of other priorities.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Paul Saunders
The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, dramatically escalates political tensions in a society that neither wants nor can afford such escalations. Former presidents and various political and media figures have appropriately expressed sympathy for Mr. Trump and condemned the violence. Yet, these might not be enough to avoid further—and more consequential—political violence.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Paul Saunders
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization conducts its seventy-fifth-anniversary summit in Washington, Americans increasingly wonder about the value of U.S. alliances. Some officials and pundits dismiss such questions as isolationism and either implicitly or explicitly criticize the questioners. Others (including some U.S. allies) seek to prove that America’s alliances are “worth it” with reams of data. Neither chiding nor charts will likely build public support.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
mja.com.au | Paul Saunders
Med J Aust 2024; 221 (1): 8-12. || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52317 Published online: 1 July 2024 Positionality statementAs a proud Biripi man, academic, doctoral student, and former medical practitioner working daily at the cultural interface, I perceive myself as a conscious mediator of conflicting Indigenous and Western health paradigms.
