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Violent Political Decay in Yemen: An Iranian Challenge of Saudi Regional Superiority
Facilitating the passage of 11% of the world’s petroleum annually, the juncture of the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea manifests compelling geopolitical and strategic value for g...
By William Allen
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The Real U.S.-Iran Dilemma: What Happens After a Nuclear Deal?
There is a fierce debate in both the United States and Iran about the possible implications of a nuclear agreement for broader relations between the two states after thirty-fi...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Jacob Stokes & Nicholas Heras
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RHETORIC AND REALITY IN THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
You would not know from last night’s State of the Union that the world is an increasingly uncertain, unstable, and, yes, likely more dangerous place for the United States. In ...
By Elbridge Colby
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THE STATE OF THE UNION: THE PRESIDENT STRUCK THE RIGHT TONE
I thought the president’s State of the Union address was well done. It was less a list of specific proposals than the SOTU often is (although there were some), and more an art...
By Shawn Brimley
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The mysterious absence of women from Middle East policy debates
Last year, six leading Washington think tanks presented more than 150 events on the Middle East that included not a single woman speaker. Fewer than one-quarter of all the spe...
By Marc Lynch
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Besting Boko Haram
Will anything stop Boko Haram? As Western media became consumed with the wave of terrorism in Paris, the Nigerian terrorist group slaughtered hundreds, perhaps thousands, of p...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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Does the Islamic State Pose a Threat to Morocco and Jordan?
The Middle East and North Africa‘s constitutional monarchies are surviving the upheaval of the Arab Spring. Morocco and Jordan, two key US allies in the region, are popularly ...
By Amanda Claypool & Nicholas Heras
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The steps a divided government can take to protect national interests
Contrary to the oft-stated ideal, politics has never stopped at the water’s edge, and it will be no different in 2015. Yet the United States is strongest when it is guided by ...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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CNAS Commentary: Smart Sanctions on Cuba
As President Obama’s already announced policy changes on Cuba take effect today, emotions and rhetoric are again running hot. His critics fear that Cuba is getting something f...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Exosuits: Not Just a Day at the BeachIn the 2014 movie Edge of Tomorrow Tom Cruise’s character has a bad day. And like Bill Murray in Groundhog’s Day, he has to live it over and over again. Yet instead of trapped...
By Lt. Scott Cheney-Peters
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Time clock for deal with Iran
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, the P5+1, and Iran are in overtime negotiations to reach a nuclear agreement, after failing to craft one in ...
By Ellie Maruyama
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Commentary: Swarming the BattlefieldThe US Department of Defense has launched a long-range research and development planning effort, and DoD leaders have stated that robotics and autonomous systems will be a cri...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Local Flavor: What Asia’s Hedging Trend Tells Us about Asia, and StrategyWhen modern scholars and strategists discuss trends as a hook to some larger observation or policy argument, they typically do so with an eye to trends at the global level — t...
By Van Jackson
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Give democratic Tunisia the U.S. support it needs and deserves
Tunisia is rightly hailed as the lone success story of the Arab Spring: the only country that has threaded a path from the uprisings of 2011 to genuine multiparty democracy to...
By Vance Serchuk
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The South will Rise Again
Syria’s civil war is heading toward a point of no return. Advances by the Islamic State (IS) in eastern and northern Syria and the resurgence of other jihadi organizations in ...
By Dafna Rand & Nicholas Heras
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Warming to Iran
Foreign policy is about necessity, not desire. And multiple necessities have been driving the United States and Iran toward a détente of sorts. Indeed, the American-Iranian es...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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America Is Fated to Lead
THE SLEEP of any president, prime minister or statesman is haunted by what ifs. What if I had only fired that defense secretary sooner, or replaced that general in Iraq with t...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Welcome to China and America's Nuclear NightmareFor all the focus on maritime disputes in the South and East China Seas, there is an even greater peril in Asia that deserves attention. It is the rising salience of nuclear w...
By Elbridge Colby
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COLUMN-Russia Sanctions: Beware the Blowback
In recent days, the U.S. Congress has moved aggressively to increase the economic pain inflicted on Russia in punishment for its brazen destabilization of easternUkraine and C...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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No need for new sanctions on Iran
As the 113th Congress wraps up and the new Congress prepares for the start of 2015 it is evident that one of the central early debates on foreign policy will revolve around ne...
By Ilan Goldenberg