Former Strauss Center Senior Student Associate (SSA) Janina Staguhn recently co-authored a report for CSIS titled “Enabling an Economic Transformation of Ukraine: Recovery, Reconstruction, and Modernization.” The report primarily stressed how “it is in the national security interest of the G7 and European Union for Ukraine to become a modernized economy and remain a secure democracy” after the war. The report also stated the importance of “creating a framework for the United States, European Union, and other G7 countries to help Ukraine attract critical private sector investment.”
If you would like to read more about this transformative plan for Ukraine and its allies, the report can be found here.
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...