Summary:The ongoing African Growth and Opportunity Act reauthorization process could facilitate the expansion of U.S.-Africa trade in critical minerals. Introduction The United States is currently seeking to source the supplies of minerals and metals that are “critical” to support its clean energy transition and diversify the attendant supply chains away …

To Survive, Kyiv Must Build New Brigades—and Force Moscow to Negotiate After months of delay, Congress’s passage of a nearly $61 billion U.S. aid bill to Ukraine has provided a vital lifeline to Kyiv. But the aid package alone will not solve Ukraine’s larger problems in its war with Russia. …

Despite a slow start and tussles over the rule of law, a war next door and a newly formed liberal-democratic government are encouraging Polish ambitions of a leadership role in the bloc.Standing alongside Germany’s Olaf Scholz and France’s Emmanuel Macron at a meeting of the Weimar Triangle in mid-March in …