Past Events

The LLM Mirage: Economic Interests and the Subversion of Weaponization Controls

LLM Mirage, the belief that national security risks scale in proportion to the compute used to train frontier language models, is shaping U.S. AI security policy. This piece unpacks why that belief may be misguided.

Ritwik Gupta, Andrew Reddie

The Key Challenges of Governing Commercial Spyware

Explaining key issues holding up progress in commercial spyware governance.

Dr. Elaine Korzak

Regulating Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls

Insights offered by the Wassenaar export controls into the regulation of commercial spyware — and why that, in turn, makes them instructive for current initiatives like the Pall Mall Process.

Dr. Elaine Korazak

Sanctions in an Era of Strategic Competition

As sanctions become a widely-used tool of state power, their effectiveness — particularly regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine — has been called into question, prompting a re-evaluation of the theory behind them.

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Classical Strategic Theory and the Link between Economics and Security

This chapter traces the evolving relationship between economics and security within classical strategic thought, showing how attention to geoeconomic factors varies across the canon of strategic studies as part of a broader challenge to integrate economic concerns with those of grand strategy, maritime and air power, and industrial-era competition.

James Lee, Thomas Mahnken, Andrew Reddie

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