Reports
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Biotech Matters: Public-Private Coordination of Biotechnology
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An appreciation of biotechnology’s great opportunities is, for many commentators, intimately joined with regret about a disconnect between the U.S. government and the private ...
By Richard Danzig
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Sanctions by The Numbers: The Russian Energy Sector
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Since 2014, the United States, the European Union (EU), and other like-minded nations have targeted the Russian energy sector with increasingly significant coercive economic m...
By Jocelyn Trainer, Nicholas Lokker, Kristen Taylor & Uliana Certan
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Biotech Matters: Great Data Competition and Interoperability with Allies and Partners
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Understanding and strengthening America’s biotechnology leadership requires exploring the limits of existing data relevant to the U.S. bioeconomy so that policymakers and the ...
By Michelle Holko
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Countering Coercion
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The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC or China) has been engaging in gray zone activity—coercive behavior that is aimed at changing the status quo but that is below a threshol...
By Lisa Curtis & Nilanthi Samaranayake
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Autonomy and International Stability
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Executive Summary In a time of growing international tension, with interstate warfare ongoing in Europe and openly threatened over Taiwan, military forces worldwide are lookin...
By Tom Shugart
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Forging a New Era of U.S.-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Cooperation
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Executive Summary In August 2023, the leaders of Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and the United States met for an unprecedented in-person summit at Camp David to expand an...
By Lisa Curtis, Evan Wright & Hannah Kelley
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Biotech Matters: Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology
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In 1986, the United States established a “Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology.” In the decades since, this policy helped to enable the rapid development ...
By Dr. L. Val Giddings
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Future-Proofing Frontier AI Regulation
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Executive Summary Policymakers should prepare for a world of significantly more powerful AI systems over the next decade. These developments could occur without fundamental b...
By Paul Scharre
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Biotech Matters: Automated Scientists Will Power Tomorrow’s Bioeconomy
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Twenty years ago, it was barely plausible that soon every person on Earth would have a supercomputer in their pocket with ready access to the world’s information. Even though ...
By Dr. David A. Markowitz
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Biotech Matters
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Operation Warp Speed showed the power of the U.S. government to direct national biotech capabilities around a shared goal—in this case, a novel vaccine. But there are many oth...
By Hannah Kelley
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Evolution Not Revolution
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This report concludes that drones have transformed the battlefield in the war in Ukraine, but in an evolutionary rather than revolutionary fashion. While tactical innovation a...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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“DIU 3.0”
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Foreword By Richard Fontaine Rapid technological change touches virtually every aspect of life today. This includes defense and national security, and for good reason: To main...
By Douglas A. Beck
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Potential Russian Uses of Paramilitaries in Eurasia
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Executive Summary While much remains uncertain following the June 2023 mutiny of Russia’s Wagner Group and the August death of its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russia will likel...
By Kimberly Marten, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Carisa Nietsche, Nicholas Lokker & Kristen Taylor
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Secure, Governable Chips
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Broadly capable AI systems, built and deployed using specialized chips, are becoming an engine of economic growth and scientific progress. At the same time, these systems also...
By Onni Aarne, Tim Fist & Caleb Withers
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Identifying Russian Vulnerabilities and How to Leverage Them
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Getting U.S. policy toward Russia right requires an understanding of Russia’s vulnerabilities and how to leverage them....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Richard Connolly, Siemon Wezeman, Gavin Wilde, Elina Ribakova, Benjamin Hilgenstock, Edward Fishman, Eric Ciaramella, Paul Stronski, Peter Schroeder, Timothy Frye & Maria Snegovaya
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Resisting China’s Gray Zone Military Pressure on Taiwan
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The People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) has sharply escalated its pressure campaign targeting the Republic of China (ROC or Taiwan) in recent years. Beijing appears like...
By Jacob Stokes
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No Winners in This Game
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Sanctioning China represents a challenge more complex than any other in the modern era of sanctions. The scale and interconnected nature of China’s economy means that the dama...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Rolling the Iron Dice
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Executive Summary The prospect of a Sino-American war looms on the horizon. No scenario for such a conflict has garnered more interest than the potential invasion of Taiwan b...
By Andrew Metrick
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The Russia Stability Tracker
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In February 2023—one year into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine—CNAS convened a group of leading U.S. experts on Putin’s Russia and authoritarianism to assess...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Assessing the Evolving Russian Nuclear Threat
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Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its nuclear rhetoric has become more permissive, more inconsistent, and more instrumental. Russia has also placed greater emphasis on milit...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Michael Kofman, Nicholas Lokker & Heli Hautala
