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The First 100 Days
Richard Fontaine, Geoffrey Gertz, Emily Kilcrease, Janet Egan, Paul Scharre, Vivek Chilukuri, Sam Howell, Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante, Stacie Pettyjohn, Carlton Haelig, Becca Wasser, Josh Wallin, Jacob Stokes, Lisa Curtis, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Carrie Cordero, Jonathan Lord, Jim Townsend | January 20, 2025
Biopower
Vivek Chilukuri, Hannah Kelley | January 15, 2025
Stress-Testing State Power
Carrie Cordero | December 05, 2024
Axis of Upheaval
November 18, 2024
The First 100 Days
The First 100 Days is a series of recommendations from CNAS experts. The recommendations span the most pressing issues that will test the administration, including competition...
Biopower
For policymakers, the question is not whether the biorevolution has transformative power, but which nation will responsibly harness that power...
Stress-Testing State Power
Introduction As the end of the first quarter of the 21st century approaches, the United States’ unique federalist system of government is increasingly relevant as it relates t...
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...
AMERICA'S EDGE
Experts from the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) issued their recommendations for The First 100 Days, a blueprint to help the new administration navigate national security challenges from day one.
The First 100 Days
The First 100 Days is a series of recommendations from CNAS experts. The recommendations span the most pressing issues that will test the administration, including competition...
Set the Tone, Establish Policy, Hire Personnel—And Prepare for Crisis
President Donald Trump enters office at a critical moment and faces multiple crises...
CNAS 2025 National Security Conference | America's Edge: Forging the Future
Save the DateJune 3, 2025 The United States faces a rapidly changing global security landscape. Evolving technology, shifting alliances, and emerging threats require America t...
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Trump Wants Deal with China; Modi Playing Cards Smartly: Lisa Curtis
Key former official says Trump wants fast defence deals with India, warns immigration must be managed delicately, among other things....
By Lisa Curtis
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White House Monitoring China’s Complaint on Trump Tariffs at WTO
The White House on Thursday said it was monitoring a complaint by China to the World Trade Organization that accuses the United States of making “unfounded and false allegatio...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Takes Credit for Army Recruiting Surge, but It Started a Year Ago
The White House is trumpeting a recent surge in sign-ups of new soldiers as a response to President Donald Trump’s reelection and return to office....
By Taren Sylvester
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Appalling or ‘Common Sense,’ Trump’s Gaza Proposal Reinforces His Image as Disruptor in Chief
For all the millions of words written about Donald Trump’s inexplicable (to his opponents, anyway) political appeal, the simplest explanation may be the way he channels coffee...
By Rachel Brandenburg
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Are America’s Four Main Adversaries Really in Cahoots?
Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, China’s Xi Jinping made a call to Russian President Vladimir Putin in which, according to the Chinese foreign ministry’s re...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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How Long Will Deterrence Hold?
Mike hosts Michèle Flournoy, former Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she currently serves as Chair of the Board o...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Colombia Tariffs, Banning Chinese Drones, and Stacie Pettyjohn on Drone Warfare
By Emily Kilcrease, Stacie Pettyjohn & Geoffrey Gertz
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U.S. Central Bankers Resist Pressure from Donald Trump to Cut Interest Rates
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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How Long Will Deterrence Hold?
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Trump Wants Deal with China; Modi Playing Cards Smartly: Lisa Curtis
Key former official says Trump wants fast defence deals with India, warns immigration must be managed delicately, among other things....
By Lisa Curtis
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How Long Will Deterrence Hold?
By Michèle Flournoy
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In Trump’s Pentagon, a Growing Skepticism About U.S. Military Power
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Wants Deal with China; Modi Playing Cards Smartly: Lisa Curtis
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Trump Takes Credit for Army Recruiting Surge, but It Started a Year Ago
The White House is trumpeting a recent surge in sign-ups of new soldiers as a response to President Donald Trump’s reelection and return to office....
By Taren Sylvester
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Trump’s Pentagon Sheds No-Politics Image in a Major Reversal
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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President's Latest Order Gives Uniformed Military 30 Days to Eliminate Diversity Efforts
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Trump Takes Credit for Army Recruiting Surge, but It Started a Year Ago
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Trump World Takes on Europe
The first few weeks of the second Trump administration have seen a flurry of executive orders, tariffs imposed (or threatened) on allies and adversaries alike, and bold statem...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Steven Erlanger & Mij Rahman
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Are America’s Four Main Adversaries Really in Cahoots?
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World with Hal Brands
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Hal Brands
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Trump World Takes on Europe
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Sharper: Iran and the Axis of Upheaval
Despite suffering geopolitical setbacks since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel, a potentially nuclear Iran continues to pose a significant threat to U.S. and allied interes...
By Delaney Soliday & Charles Horn
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Appalling or ‘Common Sense,’ Trump’s Gaza Proposal Reinforces His Image as Disruptor in Chief
By Rachel Brandenburg
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Ziemba: Trump, Gaza Plan Unlikely to Come to Fruition
By Rachel Ziemba
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Sharper: Iran and the Axis of Upheaval
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O Canada! Making Sense of Last Weekend's Tariffs
Emily and Geoff digest this past weekend’s on-again, off-again 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as the 10% tariffs on China (that at least for now are still here), an...
By Emily Kilcrease & Geoffrey Gertz
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A World Safe for Prosperity
By Geoffrey Gertz & Emily Kilcrease
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White House Monitoring China’s Complaint on Trump Tariffs at WTO
By Rachel Ziemba
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O Canada! Making Sense of Last Weekend's Tariffs
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The Just Security Podcast: Diving Deeper into DeepSeek
The DeepSeek saga raises urgent questions about China’s AI ambitions, the future of U.S. technological leadership, and the strategic implications of open-source AI models. How...
By Keegan McBride
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The Implications of DeepSeek
By Jordan Schneider
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DeepSeek’s Breakthrough Sparks National Pride in China
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Just Security Podcast: Diving Deeper into DeepSeek
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Sharper: Trump's First 100 Days
Donald Trump takes office in a complex and volatile global environment. Rising tensions with China, the continued war in Ukraine, and instability in the Middle East all pose s...
By Charles Horn
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Coordinate the Interagency to Counter Malign Foreign Influence
By Carrie Cordero
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The Clock Is Ticking on TikTok with Potential Ban Coming This Weekend
By Carrie Cordero
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Sharper: Trump's First 100 Days