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Elisabeth Braw on Modern Deterrence
Podcast
Elisabeth Braw, an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), sits down with Jim Townsend and Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor to discuss what modern deterrence ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Elisabeth Braw
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The Mission Creep of Sending Troops To The US-Mexico Border
Commentary
The current plan to send at least 7,000 active-duty U.S. troops to the southern border for Operation Faithful Patriot undermines Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ entire defe...
By Emma Moore
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Ep. 27: CENTCOM's Gen. Votel; Exosuits and super soldiers; Weaponizing social media and more
Podcast
This week on the program: • During a flight over Turkmenistan this week, America’s top commander in the Middle East spoke by phone with Defense One Executive Editor Kevin Baro...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Sanctions Alone Won’t Alter Iran’s Behavior in the Middle East
Commentary
The U.S. Treasury Department recently designated a network of 22 Iranian businesses as supporters of terrorism, including several banks and major commodities companies, imposi...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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Trumping Asia
In a cavernous Manila exhibition hall, flooded with light, U.S. President Donald Trump stood flanked by members of his national security team to deliver remarks to the press i...
By Abigail Grace
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Why the Global Magnitsky Act Is the Best Way to Sanction Saudi Arabia
Commentary
Saudi Arabia continues to face unprecedented criticism from the United States, its longstanding regional ally, over the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in ...
By Neil Bhatiya
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David Cohen talks with Michael Morell on "Intelligence Matters" podcast
Podcast
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with David Cohen, former Deputy Director of the CIA and Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelli...
By David Cohen
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What Impact Will New U.S. Sanctions Have on Iran?
Commentary
The Trump Administration is imposing new sanctions on Iran’s oil exports on November 5. What impact are sanctions likely to have on Iran? How do these sanctions differ from pr...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Navigating a new chapter in the US-Philippines’ ‘Long Friendship’
Commentary
In the Philippines, nearly a year after President Trump first sketched his Free and Open Indo-Pacific policy at the 2017 APEC CEO Summit, uncertainty about how the United Stat...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Kristine Lee
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The Chaos of Trump’s Would-be Birthright Citizenship Order
In an interview with Axios released on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 30, President Trump indicated plans to sign an executive order revoking birthright citizenship—returning to...
By Carrie Cordero & Quinta Jurecic
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Special Episode: Ulrike Franke on the State of German Politics
Podcast
Ulrike Franke, a Policy Fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations, speaks with Jim Townsend and Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor about the rapidly shifting nature of Germ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Ulrike Franke
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Surviving the U.S. Withdrawal From the Iran Nuclear Deal: What We Do—and Don’t—Need to Worry About
Commentary
In a September interview with Germany’s Der Speigel, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated that if Europe could not meet Iran’s demands for sustained economic b...
By Eric Brewer
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The United States Should Rally Behind European Strategic Autonomy
It was May 2017 and it was the comment heard around the world. In the wake of a disastrous G7 Summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a campaign stop at a packed beer ten...
By Rachel Rizzo
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How to tell if North Korea is serious about denuclearization
Commentary
Since the Singapore summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in June, Pyongyang has made gestures and statements suggesting that it will cu...
By Duyeon Kim
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Strategic competition beyond confrontation with China
Commentary
The Trump administration is undertaking a historic reorientation of U.S. policy towards China. The 2018 National Defense Strategy highlighted the “reemergence of long-term, st...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Peter Harrell on U.S. Use of Sanctions
Video
Foreign Affairs contributor Peter Harrell discussed his recent piece on the U.S.'s use of sanctions and how to prevent their overuse. This program is part of a “Washington Jou...
By Peter Harrell
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Time for a 21st century PH-US alliance
Commentary
Of all the alliances in the Asia-Pacific today, there is none more underappreciated than that of the Philippines and the United States. And there is no line that better captur...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Heydarian
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Anna Wieslander on Swedish Elections and the Nordic View of European Defense
Podcast
Anna Wieslander, the Director of Northern Europe with the Future Europe Initiative at the Atlantic Council, speaks to Jim Townsend about this year's elections in Sweden, as we...
By Jim Townsend & Anna Wieslander
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Has the Transatlantic Alliance Been Irreparably Damaged?
Commentary
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces dealing with the transatlantic relationship. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of e...
By Jim Townsend, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Richard Fontaine & Julianne Smith
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Exiting the Russia nuclear treaty impacts military strategy in Asia
Commentary
President Trump recently announced that the United States will soon exit the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia. This will open significant options for the U...
By Eric Sayers & Abraham M. Denmark
