Economics & Trade — Global Security Review Archive

Archive, Defense & Security, Economics & Trade, Government & Politics, Strategic AdversariesAfrica, alternative materials, China, China–Japan Rare Earths dispute, cobalt, copper, critical minerals, defense procurement, domestic production, economic coercion, electric vehicles, export, export restrictions, F-35 fighter jets, geopolitical security, graphite, industrial production, investment planning, lithium, military aircraft, mineral reserves, mining, National defense, price volatility, processing dominance, radar systems, rare Earth minerals, recycling technologies, refining, refining infrastructure, semiconductors, solar panels, stockpiles, strategic competition, strategic vulnerability, submarines, supply chain, supply chain diversification, Tomahawk missiles, U.S. dependency, unmanned aerial vehicles

China’s Critical Mineral Strategy and the Structure of Strategic Competition

Holden Johansen0 Comments

Published: July 2, 2026 China's dominance of the rare-earth mineral supply chain gives Beijing a powerful tool of economic coercion against rival states. Vital rare-earth minerals like cobalt, copper, lithium,…

Archive, Defense & Security, Economics & Trade, Emerging Threats, Government & PoliticsAegean Sea, Blue Homeland doctrine, Deterrence, eastern Mediterranean, EastMed pipeline, energy resources, Exclusive Economic Zone, geopolitical competition, geopolitical realism, geopolitical strategies, Greece, international law, international waters, Islands, islets, Lausanne Treaty, legal framework, legal frameworks, Libya, maritime delimitation, maritime jurisdiction, maritime strategy, militarization, natural gas, Paris Treaty, regional balance of power. , regional security, revisionism, rocks, security architecture, security vacuum, sovereignty, territorial waters, Turkish parliament, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Redrawn Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean: Türkiye’s New Legal Moves

Nazım Fatsa0 Comments

Published: June 29, 2026 An Exclusive Economic Zone does not grant absolute territorial sovereignty to a coastal state. However, it secures the exclusive rights of a coastal state to explore…

Archive, Defense & Security, Economics & Trade, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesanti-corruption enforcement, compromised elites, criminal organizations, cyber-enabled corruption, Deterrence, Disinformation campaigns, external rivals, foreign influence, fragmented sovereignty, geopolitical leverage, governance, Hybrid Warfare, illicit financial systems, influence operations, infrastructure dependence, infrastructure financing, institutional erosion, institutional resilience, investigative journalism, judicial independence, lobbying networks, military power, National Security, offshore finance, organized crime, patronage networks, political resilience, procurement oversight, public trust, regulatory oversight, sanction evasion, strategic investments, strategic stability, transparency

Strategic Corruption and the Future of Hybrid Warfare

Jeffery A. Tobin0 Comments

Published: June 23, 2026 During the Cold War, deterrence centered on missiles, troop deployments, and nuclear escalation. Military power still matters enormously, but modern strategic competition increasingly unfolds far from conventional battlefields. Rival states…

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Quiet Warfare: Bending Data and Perceptions in the Defense Industrial Base

Greg Sharpe0 Comments

Published: May 14, 2026 Artificial intelligence is quietly redrawing the front lines of national security, and the United States’ Defense Industrial Base (DIB) now sits in the crosshairs of a…

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Trumping NATO

Stephen Cimbala1 Comment

Published: April 28, 2026 Amid U.S. involvement in a war against Iran, President Donald J. Trump has decided to double down on previous public expressions of disregard and distrust toward…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Economics & Trade, Emerging Threats, Government & Politics, Space Deterrence & Conflict, Strategic AdversariesArtemis Accords, asteroid, capabilities, China, competition, development, economic, Energy, extraction, framework , geopolitical, governance, intellectual property, Leadership, lunar, mining, NASA, outer space treaty, policy, R&D, research, resources, security, Space, technology, U.S.

Seizing the High Ground: The Case for U.S. Leadership in Space Mining

Rachel Butler0 Comments

Since the Cold War, space has served as a powerful symbol of American identity. It is an arena where national pride, technological daring, and the spirit of exploration converge. It…

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Economics & Trade, Emerging Threats, Space Deterrence & Conflict, Strategic Adversaries2025 National Security Strategy, artificial intelligence, Cislunar Security, Critical Materials, defense industrial base, Deterrence, Disruptive Industries, Economic Security, export controls, Indo-Pacific, industrial base, Industrial Policy, Manufacturing Capacity, Military Strategy, mobilization, national resilience, reindustrialization, Reshoring, space superiority, Spheres of Influence, Strategic Technologies, supply chains, Technological Leadership, Western hemisphere

Techno-Economic power at the heart of the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy

Christophe Bosquillon0 Comments

The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) dropped on December 4th. The Secretary of War said: “Out with utopian idealism, in with hard-nosed realism.” The NSS could even further be translated…

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Economics & Trade, Government & Politics, Strategic AdversariesAir Force, American foreign policy, Amit Gupta, Arctic states, blue-water Navy, Canada, China, Donald Trump, globalism, Greenland, Hemispheric Defense, military expenditures, minerals, Monroe Doctrine, Nuclear Weapons, Quebec independence, territorial realignment, US defense budget, US exports, Veterans Administration, Western hemisphere

Hemispheric Defense: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Amit Gupta0 Comments

The transatlantic elites of Washington and Brussels are upset with President Donald Trump for what they see as strategic retrenchment. The reality is, it is time to implement a hemispheric…

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Trump’s Trade and Tariff Policy Benefits America’s Nuclear Deterrent

Curtis McGiffin0 Comments

Recently, President Donald Trump established a new Trade and Tariff Reciprocity Policy. In his signed memo, he stated, “It is the policy of the United States to reduce our large…

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The Volatility of Cryptocurrency: Barrier or Enabler of Nuclear Escalation?

Greg Sharpe2 Comments

The volatility of cryptocurrency markets has been a major topic of discussion since the inception of digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Its impact extends beyond financial speculation and the…

Economics & TradeChina, COVID-19, Cyber Security, Russia, United States

A Global Recession Will Fuel Cyber-Espionage

Mohamed ELDoh

Over the past several years, many economists (for a variety of reasons) have predicted a global recession in 2020. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is aggressively pushing the world into a…