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Julianne Smith in Financial Times on the Second Trump-Putin Meeting in Hamburg

Julianne Smith | July 20, 2017

Strategy & Statecraft

The Return of Marco Polo's World

By Robert D. Kaplan As Europe disappears, Eurasia coheres. The supercontinent is becoming one fluid, comprehensible unit of trade and conflict, as the Westphalian system of st...

Energy, Economics, & Security

Elizabeth Rosenberg before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade

Chairman Barr, Ranking Member Moore, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on restricting North Korea’s access to financial se...

Technology & National Security

CNAS Press Note: Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Comments on Autonomous Weapons

Autonomous weapons are again under public debate after Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Paul Selva testified on the ethics of autonomous weapons. To provide fur...

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    By General Joseph L. Votel, LTC Christina Bembenek, Charles Hans, Jeffery Mouton & Amanda Spencer

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    • January 11, 2017
    The Future of U.S.-Russia Relations

    The next president will inherit a relationship with Russia fraught with more tension than at any point since the Cold War. Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine sparked fear that ...

    By Julianne Smith & Adam Twardowski

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