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What Emmanuel Macron's Victory Means for France and the EU
Podcast
Transatlantic Security experts Julianne Smith and Rachel Rizzo discuss President-elect Emmanuel Macron's victory in the French election. Hosted by Neal Urwitz....
By Julianne Smith, Rachel Rizzo & Neal Urwitz
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The Necessary Empire
Commentary
Elections in the Netherlands, France and Germany this year have brought much drama to the old Carolingian core, where Charlemagne founded his empire in the ninth century. This...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Four Reasons Why Talking to North Korea Would Be Smart Strategy
Commentary
It seems fair to say the Trump administration’s policy on whether to engage in direct diplomatic talks with Kim Jong-Un’s regime in North Korea is still developing. It’s time ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Lessons from the QDDR for Secretary Tillerson’s Reorganization of the State Department
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last week announced that he is launching a new initiative to reorganize the State Department. In launching this initiative, Tillerson is walki...
By Peter Harrell
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Technology & National Security
The Smart Move for the DOD on SmartphonessPresident Trump’s reluctance to give up his personal smartphone following his inauguration is well documented. It’s also understandable. The highly modified, top secret, certi...
By Alexandra Sander
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Neal Urwitz for Politico
White House press secretary Sean Spicer has one of the hardest jobs in Washington. He’s almost constantly under fire from an increasingly unsympathetic public and the frustrat...
By Neal Urwitz
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Trump’s Blank Check to Sisi
Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, declared a three-month state of emergency last week after two suicide attacks on Coptic churches killed forty-four people. In response...
By Yasmin Faruki
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Trump meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
Video
President Trump met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House. Ilan Goldenberg, director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Se...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Elizabeth Rosenberg and Zachary Goldman Discuss New Report on Terrorist Use of Virtual Currencies
CNAS experts Elizabeth Rosenberg and Zachary Goldman stop by to discuss their new report on terrorist use of virtual currencies. Hosted by Neal Urwitz....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg, Zachary K. Goldman & Neal Urwitz
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Palestinian President Abbas meets with President Trump
Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg discusses what Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's meeting with President Trump could mean for middle east policy. Host...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Neal Urwitz
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Technology & National Security
Today’s Big News About “Backdoor Searches”One of the most hotly debated aspects of Section 702 is the practice of querying 702-acquired data using U.S.-person identifiers—in particular, queries conducted by the FBI in...
By Adam Klein
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The Role of the Commander-in-Chief
I really just see the bigness of it all, but also the responsibility. And the human responsibility. You know, the human life that’s involved in some of the decisions.” — Presi...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Janine Davidson
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A U.S. Plan for the Abbas-Trump Meeting
This week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas heads to Washington as President Donald Trump makes his first major foray into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Thus f...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Hady Amr
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US China Envoy Likely to See Responsibilities Grow Asia-Wide
They say “personnel is policy.” In foreign relations, U.S. President Donald Trump largely has neither. Key national security posts across the government remain empty, and many...
By Harry Krejsa
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Technology & National Security
The End of “About” Collection under Section 702As Bobby and others have already noted, the NSA announced Friday that it is ending “about” collection under Section 702’s upstream component. I won’t rehash the basics here; r...
By Adam Klein
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Here’s How Trump’s ‘Axis of Adults’ Weathered the First 100 Days
Amongst the chaos and the tweets, some of the more reassuring steps of the first 100 days of the Donald Trump presidency were the appointments of Secretary of Defense James Ma...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Why is Iowa Gov. Branstad Trump's Pick for Ambassador to China?
Harry Krejsa, Asia expert at CNAS, provides an overview of Iowa Governor Terry Branstad's track record with Beijing....
By Harry Krejsa
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We Need Mutually Assured Destruction
The United States and Russia — and before it, the Soviet Union — have been in a nuclear standoff since 1949. This 68-year-old standoff has been very tense at times, such as du...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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The Tragic Sensibility
The great classicist Edith Hamilton, writing in 1930, explained that tragedy is the beauty of intolerable truths, and that real tragedy is not the triumph of evil over good bu...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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National Security Human Capital
America's Security in Trump's First 100 DaysIf the only measure of national security success during a president’s first 100 days were avoiding catastrophe, then, OK, President Trump has succeeded. No attacks on the U.S....
By Phillip Carter
