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Sanctions by the Numbers: Comparing the Trump and Biden Administrations’ Sanctions and Export Controls on China
Eleanor Hume, Rowan Scarpino | October 23, 2024
Integration for Innovation
Michael Brown, Ellen Lord, Andrew Metrick, Robert O. Work | September 25, 2024
Building the Future Capital Campaign
May 22, 2024
Axis of Upheaval
November 18, 2024
Energy, Economics & Security
Sanctions by the Numbers: Comparing the Trump and Biden Administrations’ Sanctions and Export Controls on China
Executive Summary The Biden administration has exceeded the Trump administration in the number of financial sanctions and entity-based export controls placed on Chinese person...
Defense
Integration for Innovation
Executive Summary In August 2023, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks made a clear case that the Department of Defense (DoD) must do better in “creat[ing] and exploit[i...
Building the Future Capital Campaign
In a world awash with challenges, the demand for the Center’s work has never been greater than today. The new campaign will ensure that CNAS can fulfill its critical mission n...
Axis of Upheaval
Today a new Axis of Upheaval—the increasing alignment among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea—is fundamentally altering the geopolitical landscape. Cooperation among the fo...
HIGH STAKES
High Stakes: Preparing the Next President is a new election-year initiative to explore the most pressing national security issues that will face the next administration.
Transatlantic Security
The Axis of Upheaval
The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
Leading the Free World
The United States has led the free world for eight decades, helping to usher in an era of unprecedented human flourishing. For much of that period, democracies expanded in num...
Middle East Security
Virtual Event | Confronting the Axis of Upheaval
Sep 20, 2024
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South Korean Opposition Moves to Impeach President After Remarkable Misstep
In The News
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is heading toward impeachment proceedings after his ill-fated attempt to impose martial law, with the six opposition parties on Wednesday ...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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South Korea Martial Law Turmoil Sparks International Backlash
In The News
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who vowed to make his country a "global pivotal state", faced immediate international diplomatic fallout on Wednesday after his botched a...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Air Force's New Deployment Model Sparks Criticism, Staffing Concerns at Bases
In The News
Some Air Force officials are concerned by the service's innovative deployment model, a new government watchdog report revealed, with some wing and command leaders saying the i...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Biden Lands in Africa, but U.S. Foreign Policy Now Runs Through Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Estate
In The News
There have been other signs of Trump’s renewed influence on the world stage. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has used several media interviews to signal a new willingn...
By Richard Connolly
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Elon Musk vs. Stephen Miller: Washington Preps for Battle on High-Tech Immigration
In The News
High tech companies — with Elon Musk seemingly on their side — are gearing up to push the incoming Trump administration to let more high-skilled immigrants into the U.S., sett...
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Trump Turns to Outsider to Shake Up Navy, but His Lack of Military Experience Raises Concerns
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, has not served in the military or had a civilian leadership role in the service. While officia...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Elon Musk Says Human-Piloted Fighter Jets like the F-35 Are Obsolete. Drone Tech Can’t Yet Fill the Gap.
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In an F-35 Funding Fight, Musk Will Need to Win Over a Skeptical Congress and Trump
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Turns to Outsider to Shake Up Navy, but His Lack of Military Experience Raises Concerns
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South Korea Martial Law Turmoil Sparks International Backlash
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who vowed to make his country a "global pivotal state", faced immediate international diplomatic fallout on Wednesday after his botched a...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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South Korean Opposition Moves to Impeach President After Remarkable Misstep
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Trump May Find Things to Like About Biden’s ‘Horrible’ Foreign Policy
By Richard Fontaine
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South Korea Martial Law Turmoil Sparks International Backlash
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Air Force's New Deployment Model Sparks Criticism, Staffing Concerns at Bases
Some Air Force officials are concerned by the service's innovative deployment model, a new government watchdog report revealed, with some wing and command leaders saying the i...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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How Generals and Admirals Get Promoted Now and How That May Change Under Trump
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of “Woke” Generals. He Can.
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Air Force's New Deployment Model Sparks Criticism, Staffing Concerns at Bases
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Biden Lands in Africa, but U.S. Foreign Policy Now Runs Through Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Estate
There have been other signs of Trump’s renewed influence on the world stage. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has used several media interviews to signal a new willingn...
By Richard Connolly
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U.S. Allies Fret over Who’s Up and Who’s Down in Trump’s Inner Circle
By Jim Townsend
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Trump and the War in Ukraine with Michael Kofman and Robert Lee
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Rob Lee & Mike Kofman
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Biden Lands in Africa, but U.S. Foreign Policy Now Runs Through Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Estate
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As Middle East Crisis Grinds On, Pentagon Shows Signs of Strain
The open-ended crisis in the Middle East has begun to squeeze the Pentagon, fueling unease over the U.S. military’s ability to balance imminent threats to American interests t...
By Becca Wasser
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“The Ayatollah Has No Clothes” – with Rich Goldberg and Richard Fontaine
By Richard Fontaine
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How Israel Tries to Destroy Hezbollah’s Financial Network
By Jonathan Lord
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As Middle East Crisis Grinds On, Pentagon Shows Signs of Strain
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China Is Studying Russia’s Sanctions Evasion to Prepare for Taiwan Conflict
China has been supporting Russia’s economy since the start of the Ukraine war by buying its oil while supplying it with everything from microelectronics to washing machines. M...
By Edward Fishman
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‘Blood Will Emerge from My Ear’: Experts Pounce on Trump’s New ‘Weaponization’ Threat
By Rachel Ziemba
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The Real Numbers Behind Trump’s Canada Tariff Threat
By Rachel Ziemba
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China Is Studying Russia’s Sanctions Evasion to Prepare for Taiwan Conflict
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Trump Must Rebalance America’s AI Strategy
The disagreements about AI progress are so fundamental and held with such conviction that they have evoked comparisons to a “religious schism” among technologists....
By Bill Drexel & Ruby Scanlon
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Elon Musk vs. Stephen Miller: Washington Preps for Battle on High-Tech Immigration
By Vivek Chilukuri
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Guidance for the 2025 AI Action Summit in Paris
By Janet Egan, Michael Depp, Noah Greene & Caleb Withers
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Trump Must Rebalance America’s AI Strategy
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Sharper: Trump 2.0
Donald Trump's return to the White House is widely expected to reshape America's global priorities. With personnel choices and policy agendas that mark a significant break fro...
By Charles Horn & Gwendolyn Nowaczyk
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Legal Analysts Details ‘Practical Impact’ of Trump Win on Court Cases: ‘They Succeeded Spectacularly’
By Carrie Cordero
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‘Trump Will Use His Strength For Peace': Ex White House Official
By Lisa Curtis
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Sharper: Trump 2.0
