By Luke R. Thompson, Fall 2025 Marcellus Policy Fellow In American foreign policy circles, it is common to hear it suggested that 2027 is the year that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is either planning or will be ready to invade Taiwan (the Republic of China, or ROC). Such pronouncements are accompanied by significant […]
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Strategic Regionalism and Economic Realism: What NATO Should Learn from the Success of the Bucharest Nine (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Anthony J. Tokarz, Fall 2025 Marcellus Policy Fellow As the Ukraine war enters its fifth year, Russia’s growing momentum requires a reevaluation of transatlantic security. While both American and European leaders had hoped that the war would weaken Russia, the first four years of the conflict suggest that it has weakened Europe’s North Atlantic […]
Securing US AI Supply Chains: Policy Reforms for Responsible Data Annotation in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Rameen Sajjad, Fall 2025 Marcellus Policy Fellow American technology companies face growing criticism for extracting data and digital labor particularly through data annotation from developing nations in Africa and Asia. The extraction is done without equitable compensation or adequate regulatory oversight. This unregulated resource extraction model is characterized by scholars as digital colonialism, which […]
Clearing Muddled Waters: How Understanding Provincial Actors Could Prevent Future US-China Conflict in the South China Sea (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Drake Tien, Fall 2025 Marcellus Policy Fellow Since becoming a standalone province in 1988, Hainan Island has played an outsized role in China’s strategic goals and operations in the South China Sea (SCS). This includes administrative oversight of the controversial Sansha City, hosting the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) nuclear submarine fleet at Yuli […]
Electronic Warfare and Crisis Stability in the US-China Gray-Zone Competition (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Selena Lin, Fall 2025 Marcellus Policy Fellow As the strategic competition between the United States and China intensifies, military interaction increasingly occurs below the threshold of armed conflict through persistent gray-zone activities. Among the most consequential of these activities is the use of electronic warfare (EW) to degrade sensing, navigation, and communication systems. This […]
A Case for Rethinking US-Venezuelan Relations (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Nick Tselikov, Fall 2025 Marcellus Policy Fellow Ever since Hugo Chávez became President of Venezuela in 1999, U.S. policy towards the country has beencharacterized by antagonism. This has been especially so as Venezuela has been forging closer ties withRussia, China, and Iran. The U.S. government has increasingly ramped up sanctions against the country, as […]
Overdue Retrenchment: Immediately Reducing the United States’ Defense Posture in Europe (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Cody Fenimore, Fall 2025 Marcellus Policy Fellow Over the past seven decades since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) formation, the United States has provided the overwhelming majority of Europe’s defense. Born from a sense of duty to help European countries stabilize and to prevent the spread of communism after the Second World War, […]
No More Situationships: Why Rethinking Foreign Partnerships is Essential to Right-Sizing U.S. Global Force Posture and Creating a Sustainable Defense Strategy (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By David C. Lane, Spring 2025 Marcellus Policy Fellow Since the end of the Cold War and onset of the “unipolar moment,” U.S. strategic doctrine has remainedrelatively unchanged. U.S. global primacy has been largely uncontested, but fissures are beginning to show, as American power enters relative decline, with rising global powers like China and other […]
Advancing a Restraint-Focused Cyber Strategy in the Indo-Pacific (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Joseph Brennan, Spring 2025 Marcelus Policy Fellow The Indo-Pacific is becoming the strategic hotspot of global competition where cyber power converges with increased geopolitical tensions, particularly between China and the United States. With digital technology embedded into military strategy, economic infrastructure, and everyday lives, cyberspace emerged as the area of contention and collaboration. The […]
A New Strategy for NATO (Marcellus Policy Analysis)
By Corey Shiver, Spring 2025 Marcellus Policy Fellow The transatlantic relationship is at a crossroads. Currently engrossed in the transformative foreign policy of President Donald Trump, the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) partners are consumed in debate as to how European security should be achieved. This debate on burden-sharing has created […]