The Back & Forth series by the Economic Security and Technology Department offers a platform for thoughtful disagreement and debates on economic security and technology issues that deserve more attention.
Our goal in launching the Economic Security and Technology Department’s Back & Forth series is to promote debate about ideas that do not get adequate attention in Washington policy circles. As a bipartisan community of scholars, our expectation is that Back & Forth will model the art of thoughtful disagreement about unexplored solutions to our biggest challenges on economic security and technology. That, in our opinion, is the crying need of democratic governance in polarized times.
— Navin Girishankar, President, Economic Security and Technology Department, CSIS
Commentary by Richard Koo and William Alan Reinsch — October 15, 2024
Commentary by Sujai Shivakumar, Charles Wessner, and Christina Alfonso — January 13, 2025