Finland’s shipyards have the capacity to produce icebreakers quickly and at a reasonable cost. It is estimated that, compared to US icebreaker production underway, the average Finnish icebreaker would ...

Episode Transcript The Russian Aviation Industry Two Years after the Sanctions The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity. Izabella Tabarovsky: Hello and welcome. I am Izabella Tabarovsky and ...

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Brazil Institute The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—aims to deepen understanding of Brazil’s complex landscape and strengthen relations ...

Seven of the eight Arctic nations are members of NATO yet collectively, they trail Russia's ice-breaker capacity. This was even before adding in the icebreakers China has built as it proclaims itself ...

Russian authorities are taking tentative steps to limit access to abortion and other aspects of reproductive health, ostensibly to combat the demographic crisis, which has been amplified by Russia’s ...

Here’s a bit of a primer—from someone involved in Law of the Sea, research, Arctic policy, and business issues over the last few decades—about what’s at stake. My disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, but the ...

Duncan Wood, PhD, was Vice President for Strategy and New Initiatives at the Wilson Center, where he worked on supply chain policy, critical minerals, electric vehicles and on the geopolitics of the ...

Ambassador Mark Green (ret.) is President Emerita of the Wilson Center and author of the "Stubborn Things” blog. Green served as Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) ...

Since the mid-20th century, the Middle East has been a hotspot of volatility, with Israel engaging in wars and facing threats from militias like Hamas and Hezbollah. Conflicts have involved regional ...

The proverb reminds us that "For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost." Today, the United States faces mounting risks from the metaphorical lack of a nail—inadequate equity investment that could ...

Michael Kugelman, the Director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center, is a leading specialist on Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan and their relations with the United States. The editor or ...