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Trade Controls are a Limited Tool of Foreign Policy
Commentary
If the goal is to ensure our adversaries acquire nothing that they need, we are doomed to failure....
By William A. Reinsch
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On Export Controls, the United States Must Focus on Effectiveness
Commentary
Export controls will be more effective if they are narrowly tailored to specific national security objectives....
By Peter Lichtenbaum
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Export Controls Are Bigger and Broader. But Are We Safer?
Commentary
U.S. leaders must consider how export controls can be used effectively, and the circumstances in which export controls may be ill-suited to a policy objective....
By Peter Harrell
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How Biden Could Use Trump’s Trade War Thumbscrews to Fight Climate Change
Commentary
Global climate change is undeniably a crisis, arguably the single greatest national security challenge the United States faces, and certainly a vastly greater threat than many...
By Peter Harrell
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Commentary
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
A Council of Democracies Can Save MultilateralismThe world desperately needs a new institution that is both global in reach and unified in vision....
By Edward Fishman & Siddharth Mohandas
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Commentary
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Sharper: Global Coronavirus ResponseAnalysis from CNAS experts on the most critical challenges in U.S. foreign policy....
By Chris Estep & Cole Stevens
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How U.S. Sanctions Depend on the Federal Reserve
Commentary
Foreign policy professionals will have to understand what the Federal Reserve is doing and how it affects U.S. national security....
By Edoardo Saravalle
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Dirty Money Is an Ongoing Threat on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Two developments last week, in the United Kingdom and the United States, highlighted how their common adversaries are still exploiting the global financial system, using long-...
By Neil Bhatiya
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How Sanctions Fail US Policymakers
Podcast
Eddie Fishman, who worked in Obama's State Department's Policy Planning Staff, joins to discuss his recent articles on sanctions and the world order. Listen to the full conve...
By Edward Fishman
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Commentary
Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
How Iran’s Oil Infrastructure Gambit Could Imperil the Strait of HormuzA series of mysterious and seemingly random explosions continue to erupt across various parts of Iran this month, hitting sensitive military sites, as well as populated reside...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers & Ariane Tabatabai
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Video
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Closing the Deal: National Security and Investment ScrutinyThe United States and other major economies are enhancing investment screening and export controls in areas sensitive to national security....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg, Peter Harrell, Carrie Cordero, David Cohen, Elbridge Colby, Wally Adeyemo, Deborah Lehr, Aimen Mir & Uzra Zeya
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Why Stopping Environmental Crime Is a Matter of National Security
Commentary
Last week, the presidency of the Financial Action Task Force, the global intergovernmental standard-setter for combatting illicit financial threats, passed from China to Germa...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Commentary
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
The U.S.-China confrontation is not another Cold War. It’s something new.With U.S.-China relations in free fall, the Trump administration’s chief arms control negotiator recently proclaimed that "we know how to win these races and we know how to sp...
By Richard Fontaine & Ely Ratner
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Video
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital / Energy, Economics & Security / National Security Law
The Pitch: A Competition of New IdeasOn June 17, 2020, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted its premier event to elevate emerging and diverse voices in national security. Sixteen applicants made t...
By Richard Fontaine, Michèle Flournoy, Michael J. Zak, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Shai Korman, Carrie Cordero, Kristine Lee, David Zikusoka & Cole Stevens
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Video
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Richard Fontaine and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian Discuss America and the Post-Pandemic WorldAt the launch of the CNAS 2020 National Security Conference, CNAS CEO Richard Fontaine and Axios China Reporter Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian discussed challenges and opportunities...
By Richard Fontaine & Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
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Commentary
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
An Overly Aggressive U.S. Approach to Hong Kong Risks Playing Into China’s HandsWhile China’s violations of the agreed-upon status quo regarding civil liberties and political autonomy in Hong Kong are worthy of a robust U.S. response, the administration s...
By Neil Bhatiya & Eric Lorber
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Podcast
Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
The Trump Administration’s Latest Moves to Dismantle the Iran Nuclear Agreement with Peter Harrell and Richard NephewOn May 27, the Trump administration announced that it was withdrawing sanctions waivers that had allowed Russian, Chinese and European companies to work with Iran on sensitive...
By Peter Harrell
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How to Fix America’s Failing Sanctions Policy
In his landmark 1921 book “The Command of the Air,” the Italian military theorist Giulio Douhet argued that the advent of airpower would dramatically alter the nature of war. ...
By Edward Fishman
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Congressional Testimony
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Hearing on the Crisis in Hong Kong: A Review of U.S. Policy ToolsSubmitted Written Testimony Chairman Crapo, Ranking Member Brown, Honorable Members of the Committee— It is an honor to be asked to testify to you today on an issue of critica...
By Peter Harrell
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Podcast
Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Virtual Roundtable: How is covid-19 changing European economic sovereignty?What does the corona crisis mean for economic coercion? How does it amplify some of the problems stemming from punitive economic measures Europeans have worried about? Especia...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
