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  • The Future of U.S. Defense Policy: Questions for Secretary of Defense Designate
    The Future of U.S. Defense Policy: Questions for Secretary of Defense Designate Chuck Hagel
    Type of Publication: Factsheet
    Date: 01/28/2013

    On January 31, the Senate will hold confirmation hearings for former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel to be President Obama’s third secretary of defense. Hagel’s hearing comes at a time of strategic and budgetary uncertainty for the United States and for the Pentagon in particular. In the memo The Future of U.S. Defense Policy: Questions for Secretary of Defense Designate Chuck Hagel, CNAS experts Shawn Brimley, Phillip Carter and Jacob Stokes suggest several possible areas for senators to consider.

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  • Renewing the Project BioShield Act: What Has It Bought and Wrought?
    Renewing the Project BioShield Act: What Has It Bought and Wrought?
    Type of Publication: Policy Brief
    Date: 01/25/2013

    In Renewing the Project BioShield Act: What Has It Bought and Wrought?, Dr. Robert Kadlec, a consultant with RPK Consulting, writes that Project BioShield has achieved its strategic objectives and merits continued support and funding. He argues that the president and Congress should affirm its value as a critical insurance policy against potential chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear attacks.

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  • Questions for Secretary of State Nominee Senator John Kerry
    Questions for Secretary of State Nominee Senator John Kerry
    Type of Publication: Factsheet
    Date: 01/23/2013

    The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will take up the nomination of its chair, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to become secretary of state. President Obama has tapped Senator Kerry to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton at a time of great instability in the Middle East, economic uncertainty at home and abroad, increasing competition from China and diminishing budgets. In the memo Questions for Secretary of State Nominee Senator John Kerry, CNAS experts Kay King, Senior Advisor and Director of External Relations, and Jacob Stokes, Research Associate, propose several areas where senators should probe Senator Kerry’s views.

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  • Aum Shinrikyo – Second Edition – English
    Aum Shinrikyo – Second Edition – English
    Type of Publication: Report
    Date: 12/20/2012

    In the Second Edition of the 2011 CNAS report Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons, the authors provide new analysis of Aum Shinrikyo’s chemical and biological weapons development, which pre-dated their 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. They focus on Aum Shinrikyo's efforts to produce various chemical and biological agents and the difficulties the cult encountered, providing new insights from key insiders.

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  • Aum Shinrikyo – Second Edition – Japanese
    Aum Shinrikyo – Second Edition – Japanese
    Type of Publication: Report
    Date: 12/20/2012

    In the Second Edition of the 2011 CNAS report Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons, the authors provide new analysis of Aum Shinrikyo’s chemical and biological weapons development, which pre-dated their 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. They focus on Aum Shinrikyo's efforts to produce various chemical and biological agents and the difficulties the cult encountered, providing new insights from key insiders. This report is the Japanese translation of the Second Edition.

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  • Contested Waters: Managing Disputes in the East and South China Seas
    Contested Waters: Managing Disputes in the East and South China Seas
    Type of Publication: Flashpoints Bulletin
    Date: 12/14/2012

    CNAS Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program Dr. Patrick Cronin argues that despite rising tensions in the East and South China Seas, conflict between the United States and China can and should be averted. He contends that the United States needs to adopt a more detailed and tailored strategy toward the East and South China Seas and increase its engagement throughout the Asia-Pacific region through a wide range of military, diplomatic and economic tools.

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  • Iraq in Hindsight: Views on the U.S. Withdrawal
    Iraq in Hindsight: Views on the U.S. Withdrawal
    Author(s): Emma Sky
    Type of Publication: Commentary
    Date: 12/14/2012

    In Iraq in Hindsight: Views on the U.S. Withdrawal, Emma Sky offers a pointed critique of U.S. policy over the last decade, arguing that valuable lessons can be learned from the country's "American era" now that U.S. forces have withdrawn. A senior fellow at the Jackson Institute at Yale and a political advisor in Iraq to General Raymond Odierno from 2007 to 2010, Sky examines these lessons learned and urges U.S. policymakers to set realistic goals for future intervention. 

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  • Revitalizing the Partnership: The United States and Iraq a Year after Withdrawal
    Revitalizing the Partnership: The United States and Iraq a Year after Withdrawal
    Type of Publication: Policy Brief
    Date: 12/14/2012

    As the United States marks the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, in Revitalizing the Partnership: The United States and Iraq A Year After Withdrawal, Senior Fellow Nora Bensahel  and former CNAS Visiting Fellow Melissa Dalton offer a way forward.

     

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  • A Competitive Turn: How Increased Chinese Maritime Actions Complicate U.S. Partn
    A Competitive Turn: How Increased Chinese Maritime Actions Complicate U.S. Partnerships
    Author(s): James R. Holmes
    Type of Publication: Flashpoints Bulletin
    Date: 12/14/2012

    James R. Holmes, professor of strategy at the Naval War College, argues that China’s increasingly competitive actions in the East and South China Seas are further complicating U.S. efforts to forge maritime security coalitions and partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region. Holmes outlines how the Obama administration can promote U.S. interests in the East and South China Seas and recommends that the United States continue to cooperate with Asian governments, maintain preponderant forces in the region and remain on cordial terms with Beijing.

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  • Global Swing States: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey and the Future of International Order
    Type of Publication: Report
    Date: 11/27/2012

    The rise of four powerful democracies – Brazil, India, Indonesia and Turkey – presents one of the most significant opportunities for U.S. foreign policy in the early 21st century. Daniel M. Kliman of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and Richard Fontaine of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) urge American leaders to pursue closer partnerships with these four countries, which they term “global swing states.” In Global Swing States: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey and the Future of International Order, published as part of a joint initiative of GMF and CNAS, Kliman and Fontaine offer a new framework for thinking about how U.S. engagement with these pivotal powers can bolster peace, prosperity and freedom.

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