Announcement · July 2025
The July 2025 issue of STEPS includes articles on economic statecraft, AI risk, cognitive performance and missile defense.
Issue 11 of STEPS — Science, Technology, Engineering, and Policy Studies — was published in July 2025, with articles on economic statecraft, cognitive performance for intelligence analysts, the risks of AI, and missile defense through deterrence.
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Economic Security
Economic Security
There was once a time when it was assumed that China would move toward liberal democratic institutions and, with that, pursue a more open capitalist economy. This assumption was based on the argument that as China grew richer through capital investment and market-driven economic expansion, its population’s values and outlook would become more Westernized.
Francis A. Finelli, Timothy Welter, PhD
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Will artificial intelligence (AI) technology empower a magnificent future, or will the risks of AI manifest themselves in a way that threatens human existence? Wall Street and Silicon Valley (i.e., many of whom are “AI boomers”) mostly believe that AI will make us productive, rich, and prosperous in a transition of our future that portends super-charged productivity and applications that eliminate worry and tedium.
William Regli, PhD
National Security & Defense
National Security & Defense
Missiles are flying over the Middle East and Europe, of many different types and with both offensive and defensive purposes. At one time, the US assumed that the only danger to the continental US was from intercontinental ballistic missiles, most likely nuclear-tipped.
Robert Hummel, PhD
