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Winning Our Chip War with China
October 8, 2022

Chris Miller's Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Scribner, 2022) is out now. The book offers a pathbreaking historical study of how semiconductor chips came to occupy such an essential role in the modern economy. Miller sat down with Kori Schake for an event about the book on Thursday. Earlier this week, Miller outlined key historical lessons from the book in an article for the Washington Post. He also joined AEI President Robert Doar and Phoebe Keller for an episode of AEI's Banter podcast devoted to the book and semiconductor technology.

 

 

As a worldwide recession approaches, Desmond Lachman argues that policymakers, not COVID-19 or the Russian invasion of Ukraine, are to blame. "Without a series of egregious policy missteps in a number of the world's major economies," writes Lachman, "we could have avoided a hard world economic landing."

 

Daniel Lyons summarizes AEI's recent "Digital Platforms and American Life" conference. The event brought together AEI scholars and peers for a series of discussions on the mounting challenges that the internet poses to American law and society.

 

In the latest report from AEI's Survey Center on American Life, Karlyn Bowman and Daniel A. Cox track changes in public attitudes on abortion before and after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

 

Laurence Silberman, a giant of the judiciary and dear friend of AEI, died on Sunday, October 2. John Yoo honors the intellectual legacy of his friend and mentor in the pages of National Review. In another piece, AEI President Robert Doar mourns Silberman's loss and remembers his decades of involvement with our institution.

 

Offshore Balancing: The British Analogy, 1688–1763

In a new report, Colin Dueck evaluates the grand strategy of offshore balancing, which dictates avoiding entanglements on the other side of the sea and relying on maritime power for defense and power projection. Examining the history of the early British Empire, often cited as a successful example of offshore balancing, Dueck finds that successful British leaders from 1688 to 1763 did not engage in pure offshore balancing and engaged in active intervention on the European continent. While some British politicians at the time argued that Britain's naval power could suffice to protect its interests, Dueck observes that Britain could not always favorably maintain the balance of power in Europe. When Britain could do so successfully, Dueck writes, such success required a mixed strategy involving a robust expeditionary army and continental alliances. While acknowledging that the analogy between contemporary America and the early British Empire is not perfect, Dueck proposes that there are relevant lessons for American grand strategy.  

 

 
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

The term public servant was made for Americans such as Silberman, but it barely begins to describe his significance

— Yuval Levin