critical minerals
2025 Silk Road Future Leaders Seminar
From 12–16 May 2025, the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies hosted the annual Silk Road Future Leaders Seminar in Washington, D.C., under the theme “Strategic Leadership for National Security.” The immersive five-day program brought together 23 emerging military officers...
Security Nexus Perspective Calls for Bold U.S. Arctic Strategy Through a North American Federation
A Security Nexus perspective, “Securing the Northern Frontier with a U.S. Arctic Federation,” by Dr. Deon Canyon, argues that the United States must dramatically expand its Arctic presence by forming a U.S.-led federation with key North American territories: Alaska, Greenland,...
Security Nexus Perspective: Critical Minerals and Coercive Power in the Indo-Pacific
A new Security Nexus Perspective by Andrea Malji, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, examines the strategic role of critical minerals in the Indo-Pacific and their use as tools of geopolitical leverage. Malji highlights how rare earth elements...
Security Nexus Perspective: The Potato Logic of Power – How Efficiency Forges Strategic Vulnerability
DKI APCSS Professor Shyam Tekwani draws a compelling parallel between Europe’s nineteenth-century potato dependency and the Indo-Pacific’s growing reliance on critical minerals in his latest Security Nexus Perspective, “The Potato Logic of Power.” Through the lens of history,...
New Security Nexus Perspective: Ore and Autonomy – India’s Critical Minerals and U.S.-India Defense Cooperation
In his latest Security Nexus Perspective, DKI APCSS professor Shyam Tekwani examines India’s critical minerals strategy and its implications for U.S.-India defense cooperation. The paper highlights India’s efforts to achieve industrial sovereignty through its National Critical Mineral...