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The U.S. Can Thaw India-Pakistan Relations
Narendra Modi’s surprise Christmas Day visit to Pakistan stunned the world. Photos of the Indian prime minister holding hands in Lahore with his counterpart Nawaz Sharif offer...
By Richard Fontaine
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If China's Goliath Threatens Asia, Then Arm David
There is a Goliath menacing the western Pacific. China’s construction of three huge artificial islands with obvious military capacity in the South China Sea has already destab...
By Jerry Hendrix
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The Mind Games Behind Obama Arming Taiwan
American presidents like to announce major arms sales to Taiwan when they are leaving office. George Herbert Walker Bush announced the sale of nearly $8 billion in hardware, i...
By Harry Krejsa & Patrick M. Cronin
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Yomiuri-Gallup Survey / Strong support for alliance expressed on both sides
In the Asia-Pacific region, the United States has no closer ally than Japan. The American public at large fully supports Japan’s measured steps to make a more proactive contri...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Does China Needs Its Own 'Womenomics'?
Any economist will tell you that failing to integrate half of a country’s population into the workforce is economic nonsense — a needless expense that permanently limits growt...
By Harry Krejsa
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Opinion: Cybersecurity collaboration needs a toolkit. So we built a prototype
Financial sector institutions from the US and Britain tested their cybersecurity cooperation last month in a joint exercise, dubbed operation Resilient Shield. The table-top e...
By Alexandra Sander & Ben FitzGerald
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Breaking the North Korea Arms Control Taboo
Arms control is one of the more benign tools of statecraft available to governments grappling with hard security problems. It entails diplomatic agreements or external mandate...
By Van Jackson
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Shaping U.S. Policy on Islamic State Amid Shifting Politics
An ABC News-Washington Post poll conducted after the Nov. 13 Paris attacks found that 73% of Americans support increased airstrikes against Islamic State and 60% favor increas...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Smartphone Wars are Coming
We are living today in the midst of the greatest democratization of information since the invention of the printing press. Smartphones transform any person into a citizen repo...
By Paul Scharre
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How China Benefits From Global Sanctions
Over the past several years, major multilateral sanctions have been aimed at regimes that threaten global security, from Russia to North Korea to Iran. China has been neither ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Washington's Message in the South China Sea
On October 27, the United States conducted a long-awaited freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea. During the operation, the USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burk...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Time to Act on Ukraine
The Ukraine crisis, though temporarily out of the headlines, is at a critical stage. There is no better opportunity than now through the next several months to forge a deal wi...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Robert D. Kaplan
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Kerry's Visit: America Has No Choice but to Reengage in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Today, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is back to Jerusalem and Ramallah for the first time in a year. Kerry’s efforts last month produced an... ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Introducing Agenda SecDef
One year from now, somewhere in a small suite of offices at the Pentagon, a team of civil servants, military officers, and a smattering of outside civilians will be hard at wo...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Shawn Brimley
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Obama Must Send Hollande to Moscow With This Clear Message
When French President Francois Hollande meets President Barack Obama Tuesday, he will ask Washington to support his vision of a grand coalition to defeat ISIS. The administrat...
By Julianne Smith
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ISIS and the Logic of Anarchy
The terrorist attacks in Paris, beyond their obvious horror, recalled to me the words of the late Bernard Fall, a French-American historian and war correspondent in Vietnam. I...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Why Closing Borders to Syrian Refugees Won't Stem Terrorist Threats
Reactions to the Middle East refugee crisis have been transformed by news that at least one of the Paris attackers traveled to Europe among a group of Syrian asylum-seekers. S...
By Richard Fontaine
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How to Fight-and Beat-ISIS
In bringing terror to one of the world’s most beloved cities, ISIS did far more than wreak devastation on Parisians out for a Friday evening. The coordinated attacks ensured t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Countering Russian Nuclear Strategy in Central Europe
In this collection of essays, Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow Elbridge Colby highlights discusses countering Russian nuclear strategy in central Europe. The collection, titled "...
By Elbridge Colby
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Will the Ma-Xi Meeting Backfire for Taiwan's KMT?
The data is in: less than a week after the meeting between Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese President Xi Jinping, a plurality of Taiwanese believe Ma does not refl...
By Phoebe Benich