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Managing North Korea: The Need for Coordination between Washington and Seoul
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Leverage: Designing a Political Campaign for Afghanistan
Author(s): Dr. Andrew M. ExumType of Publication: ReportDate: 05/06/2010This report notes that America's counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan has focused more on waging war at the operational and tactical levels at the expense of the strategic and political levels and offers recommendations to design an effective political campaign.
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Broadening Horizons: Climate Change and the U.S. Armed Forces
Type of Publication: ReportDate: 04/28/2010Broadening Horizons is an edited volume featuring four chapters and a capstone piece that explores the dual pressures of climate change and energy on each U.S. military service and combatant command and offers a road ahead to improve the country's ability to promote national security in the face of a changing climate.
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Lost in Translation: Closing the Gap Between Climate Science and National Security Policy
Author(s): Will Rogers, Dr. Jay GulledgeType of Publication: ReportDate: 04/25/2010This report explores the gap between the science and policy communities and offers recommendations for how they can work together to ensure the United States can effectively plan for the national security implications of climate change.
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On the Front Lines: Climate Change and the Combatant Commands
Type of Publication: Working PapersDate: 04/22/2010In this working paper, CNAS Senior Military Fellow Commander Herbert E. Carmen, USN, CNAS Bacevich Fellow Christine Parthemore and CNAS Research Assistant Will Rogers focus on the six geographic combatant commands as a way to address the effects of climate change and related energy security challenges on U.S. national security interests in regions across the globe.
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CNAS Capstone - Broadening Horizons: Climate Change and the U.S. Armed Forces
Type of Publication: ReportDate: 04/22/2010The Broadening Horizons capstone report, authored by CNAS Senior Military Fellow Commander Herbert E. Carmen, USN, CNAS Bacevich Fellow Christine Parthemore and CNAS Research Assistant Will Rogers, provides an overview of the implications of climate change for DOD, the military services and the combatant commands, and makes recommendations to help the United States better navigate the potential geopolitical implications of the changing climate.
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Security for Peace: Setting the Conditions for a Palestinian State
Author(s): Dr. Andrew M. Exum, Scott Brady, Dr. Richard Weitz, Kyle Flynn, Colonel Robert Killebrew, USA (Ret.), James Dobbins, Dr. Marc LynchType of Publication: ReportDate: 04/20/2010This report extracts lessons learned from other peacekeeping operations that could be applicable to defend a two-state solution in the Middle East.
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The Economic Imperative: Stabilizing Afghanistan Through Economic Growth
Author(s):Type of Publication: Policy BriefDate: 04/12/2010This policy brief argues that smart execution of the American strategy in Afghanistan depends on tapping into Afghanistan’s economic potential and empowering Afghans to foster economic development in their own country.
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Learning from Experience: Lessons from the QDR for the QDDR
Author(s): Brian BurtonType of Publication: Policy BriefDate: 01/19/2010To help inform the State Department's Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), this policy brief lays out lessons learned from the Department of Defense’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) that the State Department and USAID can learn from to optimize the review process and avoid common pitfalls.
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Engaging the Private Sector for the Public Good: The Power of Network Diplomacy
Author(s): Kristin M. LordType of Publication: Policy BriefDate: 01/19/2010This policy brief makes a compelling case for how the State Department could embrace network diplomacy by creating an independent organization – called USA•World Trust – that would unleash the power of the private sector to further America’s public diplomacy objectives.
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Diplomacy and Development
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the emergence of transnational challenges from terrorism to climate change, reveal the limits of military power and the need for all three legs of U.S. foreign and national security policy – diplomacy, development, and defense – to work together more effectively. They also require the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to play a more significant role in responding to crises and shaping U.S. foreign policy. However, State and USAID are not yet prepared to take on the demands of that role. They are not appropriately organized or sufficiently resourced; they lack not only a strong tradition of tying their operations to long-term strategic planning, but also the organizational structures and cultures necessary to adapt quickly to changing circumstances. In response, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has initiated the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), a process intended to reassess State and USAID’s roles in the 21st-century world and define new priorities, resources, and reforms going forward.
This project aims to support the reinvigoration of America’s capacity for effective diplomacy and development by convening workshops and other events, conducting innovative research, and producing policy briefs and reports to inform the QDDR and other ongoing efforts to prepare the State Department and USAID for the new challenges ahead.
Related Publications:
Managing 21st-Century Diplomacy: Lessons from Global Corporations, by CNAS Vice President and Director of Studies Kristin Lord and Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine
Beyond Borders: Developing Comprehensive National Security Policies to Address Complex Regional Challenges, by CNAS Senior Advisor Patrick Cronin and Fellow Brian Burton
Planning Diplomacy and Development: Force Planning Applications for the State Department and USAID, by CNAS Fellow Brian Burton
Eye to the Future: Refocusing State Department Policy Planning, by CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine and Fellow Brian Burton
Engaging the Private Sector for the Public Good: The Power of Network Diplomacy, by CNAS Vice President and Director of Studies Dr. Kristin M. Lord, January 2010
Learning from Experience: Lessons from the QDR for the QDDR, by CNAS Research Associate Brian Burton, January 2010
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CNAS 2012 Annual Conference
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Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security ProgramPatrick M. Cronin is a Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Previously, he was the Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at National Defense University and has a nearly 30-year career inside government and academic research centers, spanning defense affairs, foreign policy, and development assistance.
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Richard Fontaine
PresidentRichard Fontaine is the President of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He served as a Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow at CNAS from 2009-2012. He previously served as foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain for more than five years. He has also worked at the State Department, the National Security Council and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Dr. Kristin M. Lord
Executive Vice President, United States Institute of PeaceKristin Lord is Executive Vice President at the United States Institute of Peace. She was until January 2013 Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security where she oversaw the center’s research and served as one of three members of the center’s leadership team. Prior to joining CNAS, Dr. Lord was a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program and Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution. At Brookings, Dr. Lord directed the science and technology initiative of the Project on U.S.
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Dr. John A. Nagl
Non-Resident Senior FellowDr. John Nagl is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security and the Minerva Research Fellow at the U.S. Naval Academy as part of the Department of Defense Minerva Initiative program. He was previously the President of CNAS. He is also a member of the Defense Policy Board, a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Dr.
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