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This article was written by Joseph Duggan, IWP Class of 2007. The international Ukraine Recovery Conference is taking place June 21-22 in London under joint sponsorship of the Ukrainian and United Kingdom governments. In the official documents for the conference, Ukraine and its international supporters envision the country becoming a major net exporter of natural gas – about 3.5…

This article was written by Maria Juczewska (’19), former Associate Director of the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies at IWP. Early on Tuesday, June 6, a huge hydroelectric power plant dam in Nova Kakhovka, 20 miles east of Kherson, was breached. The dam held a strategically important vast water reservoir on the gigantic Dnipro River.…

In the absence of Cold War clarity, just how much of a friend is Turkey? There is much to digest in the recent presidential election in Turkey. 2023 is the centennial of the founding of the secular republic. This was a critical and symbolic election on many levels. After more than two decades of rule,…

For most of its history, the United States needed no formal or legal supervision for its foreign policies since George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796) created an “isolationist” nation that avoided any form of “entangling alliances” with other countries (European). With exceptions, Washington’s advice governed how the U.S. viewed itself on the world stage: independent, a…

An increasingly politicized and power-hungry Federal Reserve is doing the economy, and the average American, little good with its short-term “fixes” for inflation. We need to return to restraint and independence from shifting ideological winds. Nine times. If you’ve seen the classic ’80s film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, you recognize and can hear the principal’s voice.…

Rebecca Wostenberg (’14) has co-authored a report on “Hypersonics Supply Chains: Securing the Path to the Future,” which was published by the Emerging Technologies Institute at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). Read the full report

This article was co-authored by Nathan Hitchen (’19) and Robert W. Patterson. When proposing a nation-building strategy in 1791, Alexander Hamilton argued that “prosperity of manufactures” would reverse the foreign economic dependence jeopardizing the republic’s newfound freedom. His industrial innovation agenda, later championed as the “American System,” produced a manufacturing foundation that fed American domestic…

A review of The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos By Sohrab Ahmari Sohrab Ahmari’s multifarious Unbroken Thread is a letter of advice to his young son, Max. The child’s patron saint is Maximilian Maria Kolbe, who gave his life for a fellow prisoner in Auschwitz. Ahmari writes, “My…

The 2023 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum “Leaders Meeting” in San Francisco will be a particular challenge because President Joe Biden is obliged to host both Chinese “state chairman” (國家主席) Xi Jinping (習近平) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Of course, Putin will not attend. He’s very busy and, well, he’s a war criminal. The…

Unlike America, China could be a neutral party for potential peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Will the war in Ukraine end with a treaty signed in Beijing? Russia says that China’s proposed peace plan for Ukraine could be a framework for settling the conflict. President Joe Biden is reportedly willing to encourage China to help bring an end…