Insights

Where the rules are being written.

Selected writing by Nury Turkel on the regimes that now decide whether global business moves forward — export controls, economic sanctions, forced-labor and supply-chain integrity, and the governance of artificial intelligence. Analysis first published by Hudson Institute, Foreign Affairs, TIME, The New York Times, and The Diplomat.

AI, Emerging Tech & Export Controls

The core of the practice
Featured Report

AI, National Security, and the Global Technology Race: How U.S. Export Controls Define the Future of Innovation

A long-form examination of how China's AI gains exploit gaps in the export-control regime — and how EAR and BIS chip-and-AI controls should be calibrated to keep the United States ahead without stalling its own innovators.

Hudson Institute · March 24, 2025
Export Controls / EAR · BISAI & Emerging TechU.S.–ChinaSemiconductors
Hudson InstituteMay 7, 2025

U.S. AI Leadership Needs Smarter Controls

Calibrating AI and chip export controls against China — targeting the measures that preserve the U.S. innovation edge rather than blunt it.

Export ControlsAI & Emerging TechU.S.–China

Forced Labor, UFLPA & Supply-Chain Integrity

3 pieces
Hudson InstituteMarch 22, 2024

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Needs to Be Enforced

Where UFLPA enforcement and CBP detention practice fall short — and what importers should expect as the rebuttable-presumption regime matures.

UFLPASupply-ChainCustoms / CBP
The New York TimesOpinion · Jan 20, 2021

I Grew Up Witnessing Forced Labor. U.S. Companies Must Step Up.

The op-ed that helped seed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act — naming the exposure that runs through global corporate supply chains.

UFLPASupply-ChainCorporate Compliance
The DiplomatAug 26, 2020

Was Your Face Mask Made Using Forced Labor in China?

PPE supply chains, entity-list exposure, and how major retailers moved to de-risk. Co-authored with James W. Carr.

UFLPASupply-ChainSanctions

Sanctions & U.S.–China Strategic Competition

3 pieces
Foreign AffairsJuly 16, 2021

What America Owes the Uyghurs

China's surveillance-technology buildout and the sanctions and export response it demands from the United States.

SanctionsSurveillance TechU.S.–China
TIMEJune 8, 2020

The U.S. Must Use the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act to Sanction Chinese Officials

The case for targeted OFAC and Global Magnitsky designations under new statutory authority.

Sanctions / OFACGlobal MagnitskyU.S.–China
Hudson InstituteJan 14, 2023

America Must Be More Aggressive Against Chinese Incursion Into Markets and Universities

Market access, inbound investment, and research-security exposure across U.S. institutions.

U.S.–ChinaInvestment & Market AccessResearch Security
The Book

No Escape

The definitive first-person account of China's campaign against the Uyghurs — the reporting and lived testimony that underpin Navigis's forced-labor, supply-chain, and sanctions work. Published by HarperCollins / Hanover Square Press.

Publisher
HarperCollins · Hanover Square Press, 2022
Recognition
Recognized by the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing
Selected Publications & Platforms
Hudson InstituteForeign AffairsThe New York TimesTIMEThe Wall Street JournalThe DiplomatForeign PolicyChinaFile