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Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Hurt American Interests, Not Just American Values
Commentary
Most observers have seen the murder of Jamal Khashoggi as the latest example of an age-old tension in U.S. foreign policy: the pursuit of national interests versus the defense...
By Richard Fontaine
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Essence of American Leadership: The Legacy of Senator John McCain
Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS’ Fontaine Remembers McCain
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Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for a New American Security, discusses the life and legacy of John McCain, as well as what this loss will mean for American politics ...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS' Richard Fontaine Shares Memories of Sen. John McCain
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In a Newsy interview, CNAS President Richard Fontaine shared fond memories of the late Sen. John McCain, the lessons Americans can learn from his long life in public service, ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Admiral James Stavridis and Richard Fontaine: Extended Missions: The American Military Abroad
The conflict in Afghanistan reaches its 17th anniversary in October, and US involvement in Iraq will be 15 years. Americans are aware of these wars, but what about the almost ...
By Richard Fontaine & James Stavridis
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CNAS President Richard Fontaine remembers his time as Senator John McCain's foreign policy advisor
Podcast
Richard Fontaine has many memories of working and travelling with Senator John McCain. But one of the highlights includes a trip to the northern part of Canada, which resulted...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS President Richard Fontaine speaks to Fox's Benson and Harf on Senator John McCain
Commentary
U.S. Sen. John McCain, a war hero who survived five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, served three decades in Congress and went on to become the Republican Party's nomine...
By Richard Fontaine
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McCain Put Issues Before Politics Of The Day, Fontaine Says
Podcast
David Greene talks to Richard Fontaine, who was a foreign policy adviser to Sen. John McCain both in the Senate and on his 2008 presidential campaign. McCain died on Saturday ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Restoring America’s Regular Order: Remembering Senator John McCain
Podcast
Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain passed away Saturday. The Arizona Republican was 81. He was suffering from a brain tumor, and last week, his family annou...
By Richard Fontaine
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital
The Death of Political CourageMore than a decade ago, Senator John McCain sought to stop the Bush administration’s attempt to weaken the protections offered by the Geneva Conventions. The provision at issu...
By Richard Fontaine
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Standing Up for Democracy
Commentary
In its 2018 National Defense Strategy, released in January, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump correctly identified great-power competition as the United States...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Twining
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Latest On Helsinki Summit Between Trump And Putin
Podcast
NPR's David Greene speaks to Richard Fontaine of the Center For A New American Security about the summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.Li...
By Richard Fontaine
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Rhetoric aside, NATO's strategic logic remains sound
Commentary
Transatlantic solidarity appeared strained on day one of the NATO summit, as leaders parried rhetorical blows from President Trump, including his charge that U.S. allies "owe ...
By Richard Fontaine
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The West Will Survive Trump
Commentary
As President Trump kicks off a bruising NATO summit, trans-Atlantic relations are said to be in the grip of an unprecedented crisis. On multiple fronts—defense spending, Iran ...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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The North Korean summit is over. Now for the hard part.
Commentary
President Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore was heavy on drama but ultimately light on specifics. Kim agreed to complete denuclearization, and the U.S. to provide ...
By Richard Fontaine
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The G7 summit will be contentious — for all the wrong reasons
Commentary
Leaders of the Group of 7 industrialized democracies will gather this week in Quebec for their annual meeting on the world's economy. Following the Trump administration's rece...
By Richard Fontaine
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Congress Should Oversee America’s Wars, Not Just Authorize Them
Commentary
Nearly 17 years after the 9/11 attacks, a bipartisan coalition of senators has put forward legislation that promises to overhaul the legal framework for America’s worldwide ca...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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Back to the future: North Korea policy returns to business as usual
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The cancellation of the widely anticipated Trump–Kim summit in Singapore represents the latest turn in a period of dramatic zig-zag diplomacy: Just a few months ago, the Presi...
By Richard Fontaine
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China One Belt, One Road ensnares small nations in severe indebtedness
Podcast
Center for a New American Security President Richard Fontaine speaks on the show about his new piece in Foreign Policy Magazine with Dan Kliman on the creeping illiberal influ...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Kliman
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On China’s New Silk Road, Democracy Pays A Toll
Commentary
Great power competition is back. And China is now combining its vast economic resources with a muscular presence on the global stage. One of Beijing’s key efforts is the Belt ...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Kliman
