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• Why It's Hard For Strongmen To Leave

  By any rational standard, it would seem that the fighting and power struggles in the Ivory Coast, Libya, and Yemen should have been over weeks ago. Maybe soon they all will be...

  • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • April 12, 2011
• Twilight of a Strongman

  Over the past decade, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been the quintessential U.S. ally in the Middle East -- a useful, mercurial dictator who rules through a combinat...

  By Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • April 12, 2011
• Military Spending Must Be Part of the Deficit Debate

  The budget compromise reached by the White House and Congress this weekend included a "historic amount of cuts," as House Speaker John Boehner and Senate majority leader Harry...

  • Commentary
  • Time
  • April 11, 2011
• Japan’s New Deal Opportunity

  Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered office in the midst of an historic internal disaster, the Great Depression.  But although FDR exuded the confidence to inspire a nation, he l...

  By Patrick M. Cronin

  • Commentary
  • The Diplomat
  • April 11, 2011
• Beware The Void Under Tyranny

  With fighting near the end between the armies of two presidential aspirants in Ivory Coast, that country is at the bottom of a descent that began in 1993 with the death of the...

  • Commentary
  • Financial Times
  • April 6, 2011
• Messages From a Libyan Intervention

  Pundits around the world have been debating the meaning of the US intervention in Libya since the first bombs began falling last week.  Does Libya mark a new direction in US f...

  By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)

  • Commentary
  • Al Jazeera English
  • April 1, 2011
• Surgical Financial Strikes Can Oust Gaddafi

  Over the past week the Libyan no-fly zone has prevented Muammer Gaddafi from killing innocent civilians, but not forced him from power. None of the long-term options for Libya...

  By Patrick M. Cronin

  • Commentary
  • Financial Times
  • March 30, 2011
• Refocus Mideast Presence

  The popular upheavals shaking the established political order in the Middle East may throw U.S. defense strategy in the region into disarray. In the span of barely two months,...

  By Brian Burton

  • Commentary
  • Defense News
  • March 28, 2011
• The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun

  Despite the military drama unfolding in Libya, the Middle East is only beginning to unravel. American policy-makers have been spoiled by events in Tunisia and Egypt, both of w...

  • Commentary
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • March 26, 2011
• The Ties that Bind? U.S.–Indian Values-based Cooperation

  CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine co-authored a Washington Quarterly article about the evolution of U.S.-India relations. Both New Delhi and Washington have rhetorically inv...

  By Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • The Washington Quarterly
  • March 23, 2011
• Does the World Belong in Libya's War?

  President Barack Obama's decision to militarily intervene in Libya is already off to a good start. I say this as someone who has been deeply skeptical of intervention. I feare...

  • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • March 21, 2011
• Should the U.S. Move Against Qaddafi? A Logical, But Difficult, Step

  The administration is right to ratchet up the pressure on Colonel Qaddafi and his brutal regime. Talking of establishing a no-flight zone, repositioning American military asse...

  By Richard Fontaine

  • Commentary
  • The New York Times
  • March 1, 2011
• Oman's Renaissance Man

  The democratic upheaval across the Arab world has now become so profound and overwhelming -- so unstoppable -- as to engulf arguably the least oppressive and most competent au...

  • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy Magazine
  • March 1, 2011
• Arab Democracy And The Return of The Mediterranean World

  With the toppling of autocratic regimes in Egypt and Tunisia - and other Arab dictators, such as Libya's, on the ropes - some have euphorically announced the arrival of democr...

  • Commentary
  • The Washington Post
  • February 27, 2011
• Cyber Sanity

  Despite a ballooning federal debt and intense pressures on the federal budget, cyber security has become Washington’s new growth industry. The U.S. government has spent over $...

  By Kristin M. Lord & Travis Sharp

  • Commentary
  • The Hill
  • February 25, 2011
• America Primed

  The past century has seen a multi-polar world through the end of World War II, a bipolar world through the end of the Cold War and a dissipating unipolar world since. Economic...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

  • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • February 23, 2011
• The ‘Long War’ May Be Getting Shorter

  It is hard to tell when momentum shifts in a counterinsurgency campaign, but there is increasing evidence that Afghanistan is moving in a more positive direction than many ana...

  • Commentary
  • The New York Times
  • February 21, 2011
• Go Inside The $56 Billion ‘Black’ Budget

  The Pentagon dropped its $533 billion budget this week. Some line items get a thorough public debate — like stealth jet engines and soldier health care. Others have opaque nam...

  By Travis Sharp

  • Commentary
  • Wired: The Danger Room
  • February 18, 2011
• The Dangers of Korean Unification

  While the popular uprisings in Egypt and the Middle East are unlikely to infect North Korea, they are still a reminder that sudden change is always possible. With this in mind...

  By Patrick M. Cronin

  • Commentary
  • The Diplomat
  • February 9, 2011
• From Tahrir to Tiananmen

  For the first time in memory, places like Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen are starting to understand what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote that "when the people fear their gover...

  By Abraham M. Denmark

  • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • February 1, 2011