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Maintaining America’s Coercive Economic Strength
Howard Berman, Paula J. Dobriansky, Sue E. Eckert, Kimberly Ann Elliot, David L. Goldwyn, Peter Harrell, Theodore Kassinger, George Lopez, Richard Nephew, Stephen Rademaker, Frederick Reynolds, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Daleep Singh, Julianne Smith, Adam Szubin, Juan Zarate, Rachel Ziemba | March 27, 2019
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Contested Spaces
As the competition between the United States and China to shape the course of the 21st century intensifies, Southeast Asia has become a contested space....
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Bolstering Congressional Support for NATO
In January, The New York Times reported that President Trump suggested to senior advisors several times over the course of the previous year that he might withdraw the United ...
The House Intelligence Committee's Dangerous Descent into Partisan Politics
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is imploding. On Thursday, its nine Republican members demanded the resignation of the committee's chairman, Adam Schiff, ...
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Trump, trouble spots and Mueller: US expert Fontaine in conversation
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More than two years after Trump's takeover, Robert Mueller's report appears - and seems to relieve the president. At the same time Trump has to cope with a failed North Korea ...
By Richard Fontaine
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AI pilots ‘deceptively easy’ to start, but ‘fiendishly hard’ to scale up
In The News
The Office of Management and Budget, as well as current and former Defense Department leadership, have acknowledged that improving data management, enhancing agency IT archite...
By Robert O. Work
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Mystery deepens in North Korean embassy break-in after shadowy group claims responsibility
In The News
Spanish police are calling it a brazen daylight “assault” on North Korea's embassy in Madrid by a shadowy group of assailants in February. But as more information emerges, the...
By Kristine Lee
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North Korean Embassy Attack Suspects Fled To U.S., Spanish Court Says
In The News
A Spanish court says assailants who broke into North Korea's Embassy in Madrid last month later fled to the U.S. According to new documents unsealed on Tuesday, the perpetrat...
By Eric Brewer
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Syria, Iraq border reopening fuels fears of Iran ‘land corridor’
In The News
A rare meeting took place in Damascus when the military chiefs of Syria, Iraq and Iran convened there.The meeting and an announcement that a border crossing between Iraq and S...
By Nicholas Heras
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To Remind You of My Love: Reforming the Impulsive Affection of U.S. Efforts to Build Partner Militaries
The movie Downfall, about the final days of Adolf Hitler, contains a scene that has been turned into countless memes with various subtitles. In the original, Hitler learns tha...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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‘How Is Yoda?’: An Appreciation Of Andy Marshall
By Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Jr.
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The Influence of Commercial Space Capabilities on Deterrence
By John J. Klein
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To Remind You of My Love: Reforming the Impulsive Affection of U.S. Efforts to Build Partner Militaries
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Two Ways for the United States to Deepen Diplomatic Engagement with ASEAN
The time has come to demonstrate again that the United States seeks to engage partners in Southeast Asia at the highest levels of government. As the region’s economic and secu...
By Chris Estep
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Mystery deepens in North Korean embassy break-in after shadowy group claims responsibility
By Kristine Lee
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North Korean Embassy Attack Suspects Fled To U.S., Spanish Court Says
By Eric Brewer
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Two Ways for the United States to Deepen Diplomatic Engagement with ASEAN
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Veterans shouldn't have to shoulder VA errors: VA debt collection must be improved
If your monthly income suddenly dropped by $1,500 — or even more — would you be able to weather the sudden change? For how long? For many Americans, a single unexpected financ...
By Kayla M. Williams
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The Necessary Impact of Captain Marvel on the Military
By Emma Moore
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Dispelling the Myth of Women in Special Operations
By Nicole Alexander & Lyla Kohistany
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Veterans shouldn't have to shoulder VA errors: VA debt collection must be improved
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Dr. Claudia Major on European and German Defense Policy
Dr. Claudia Major, a Senior Associate in the International Security Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor an...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Claudia Major
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Josef Janning on the Future of the Transatlantic Relationship
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Josef Janning
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An Emerging China-Russia Axis?: Implications for the United States in an Era of Strategic Competition
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Dr. Claudia Major on European and German Defense Policy
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What Trump's Golan Heights proclamation means for Israel and Mideast peace
President Trump signed a proclamation Monday recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. This comes as the AIPAC conference is underway in Washington, D.C. Ilan Go...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Syria, Iraq border reopening fuels fears of Iran ‘land corridor’
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria Kurd autonomy under threat after IS 'caliphate' falls
By Nicholas Heras
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What Trump's Golan Heights proclamation means for Israel and Mideast peace
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Maintaining America’s Coercive Economic Strength
Introduction U.S. foreign policy officials have embraced economic sanctions as a tool of choice for American foreign policy. Decisionmakers have deployed sanctions against str...
By Howard Berman, Paula J. Dobriansky, Sue E. Eckert, Kimberly Ann Elliot, David L. Goldwyn, Peter Harrell, Theodore Kassinger, George Lopez, Richard Nephew, Stephen Rademaker, Frederick Reynolds, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Daleep Singh, Julianne Smith, Adam Szubin, Juan Zarate & Rachel Ziemba
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Five Years after Crimea, What have We Learned About Sanctioning Russia?
By Neil Bhatiya
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Fintech Is Booming, While Posing New National Security Risks for the U.S.
By Sam Dorshimer
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Maintaining America’s Coercive Economic Strength
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AI pilots ‘deceptively easy’ to start, but ‘fiendishly hard’ to scale up
The Office of Management and Budget, as well as current and former Defense Department leadership, have acknowledged that improving data management, enhancing agency IT archite...
By Robert O. Work
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Artificial Intelligence Colloquium: AI R&D Ethics
By Richard Danzig, Paul Scharre, Patrick Lin & Heather Roff
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Kara Frederick Interviewed on The John Batchelor Show
By Kara Frederick
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AI pilots ‘deceptively easy’ to start, but ‘fiendishly hard’ to scale up
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How swarming drones will change warfare
In February, the defence secretary said "swarm squadrons" will be deployed by the British armed forces in the coming years. The US has also been testing interconnected, co-ope...
By Paul Scharre
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The future of war: Autonomous weapons, AI, and cyberwarfare
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Erin Simpson
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Loren DeJonge Schulman on Drones
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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How swarming drones will change warfare
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Polybius, Applied History, and Grand Strategy in an Interstitial Age
Sometime around 118 B.C., a boar-hunting octogenarian cantering through southern Greece suddenly fell off his horse. The sprightly retiree — who ended up succumbing to his inj...
By Iskander Rehman
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Trump, trouble spots and Mueller: US expert Fontaine in conversation
By Richard Fontaine
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Far-Right Extremism and the Christchurch Massacre: Adapting to New Threats
By Carrie Cordero
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Polybius, Applied History, and Grand Strategy in an Interstitial Age
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Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class
Washington, October 4 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) congratulates three Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship alumni who were named as 2017–20...
By Neal Urwitz
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Drone Proliferation
By Elisa Catalano Ewers, Lauren Fish, Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
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Press Release: Three CNAS Next Generation National Security Alumni Among 2017–2018 White House Fellows Class
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How Jeanne Shaheen Fills a Void in Trump’s Foreign Policy
It’s not easy being one of the few women to play a senior role in the making of American foreign policy. Twenty-five months into his presidency, Donald Trump’s national securi...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Nancy Pelosi and Theresa May are Leading on Borrowed Time
By Livia Godaert & Chris Estep
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Bombshell: Come What May
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Lindsay Cohn, Radha Iyengar & Erin Simpson
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How Jeanne Shaheen Fills a Void in Trump’s Foreign Policy
