Strauss Distinguished Scholar Joshua Busby co-authored a piece for The National Interest titled “The Price of Inaction: Countering China’s Mineral Dominance.” The article warns that the United States is running out of time to counter China’s dominance in critical minerals and rare earth elements.
“The White House and Congress need to understand that this is not a slow-moving economic adjustment,” writes Busby. “It’s a national security imperative that requires robust investment to maintain our strategic autonomy and deter China from leveraging the economic position it has built over decades to coercive effect.”
Robert D. Kaplan, a Strauss Center Distinguished Senior Lecturer, provided a review for the Wall Street Journal on "The Village on the Edge of the World." The book centers around Herta Müller's experience growing up in Romania under its repressive communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu. "A fact that cannot be emphasized enough is that World War II ended in 1945 only...
Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Joshua Busby recently co-authored a piece in The National Interest titled “No Easy Solutions to Europe’s Geopolitical Trilemma.” Busy examines the mounting strategic pressures facing the European Union as it seeks defense, economic, and energy autonomy amid growing uncertainty from Russia, China, and the United States. “Thankfully for Europe, it is wealthy enough to continue restricting...
Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Dr. Joshua Busby recently published a piece in Foreign Policy titled “Trump’s National Defense Strategy Tries to Imagine Climate Change Away.” Busby discusses the omission of climate change and concerns in the 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS). “The Pentagon’s long-standing, bipartisan concern with climate- and energy-related matters was grounded in clear-eyed thinking about strategic risks, which...