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The Cold, Hard Reality: Canada’s Continental Shelf Claim is Business-as-Usual, Not a Significant Security Concern
Recent media reports highlighting rising tensions among Arctic nations as a result of Canada’s December continental shelf claim have been vastly overstated. This is especially...
By Isaiah Reed
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Three Foreign Policy Opportunities in 2014
A glance at any newspaper will reveal the daunting list of foreign policy challenges facing American leaders at the outset of a new year. The war in Syria rages on, with over...
By Richard Fontaine
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Human Rights and National Security: The Case of the Central African Republic
As my colleague Richard Fontaine recently posted, “The promotion of human rights and democracy is part and parcel of America’s greatness, and intrinsically bound with how we a...
By Katherine Kidder
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National Security Human Capital Program
A Delicate Dance: The Need to Respond to Chinese Assertiveness in the Western PacificRecent Chinese assertiveness, manifested in the establishment of an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) and the harassment of the USS Cowpens in the South China Sea, couple...
By Stuart Montgomery
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The U.S. Humanitarian Presence in Southeast AsiaU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently visited Tacloban in the Philippines to witness the recovery efforts following Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6,000 people a...
By Zachary Hosford
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Technology & National Security
Liberty and Security in a Changing World: B-Sides and Deep CutsThe Report and Recommendations of The President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, released last week, provided the President with some excellent ...
By Ben FitzGerald
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National Security Human Capital Program
Thanks, Congress. Really.The ink on yesterday’s budget agreement had scarcely dried before analysts and media outlets began speculating about the next big congressional “battle.” (Lest you be tempted...
By Kelley Sayler
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Execution of Uncle Jang Creates Uncertainty in DPRK-China RelationsThe execution of Jang Song-Thaek is the latest episode of the Kim Jong-Un power show. The unprecedented official media coverage of the purge indicates the eagerness of the you...
By Yanliang Li
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Squaring Human Rights and National Security
Human rights have earned a bit of prominence in Washington’s foreign policy debates over the past couple of weeks. First, National Security Advisor Susan Rice addressed the a...
By Richard Fontaine
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Understanding Saudi Anger
Lately Saudi Arabia’s leaders have seemed to take pleasure in making their American friends squirm. The most recent example of this was featured in newspapers across the count...
By Daniel Lakin
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The Unlikelihood of an Asian LNG Buyers’ Club
Five of the six largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importers in the world, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China and India, gathered last week in New Delhi for an exclusive meeti...
By Joel Smith
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Technology & National Security
Process Over PlatformsAaron Martin and I have a new paper out today: Process Over Platforms - A Paradigm Shift in Acquisition Through Advanced Manufacturing. We explore how linking additive manufac...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Technology & National Security
What does the President think about NSA surveillance?The New Yorker has an interesting article that provides insight on the tensions inside government associated with the NSA’s surveillance programs (it was released prior to yes...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
The Budget Deal: Good, But Not Great, News for DODYesterday’s budget deal is good news for the Department of Defense (DOD). Yet DOD will still feel the sharp pain of the sequester for the rest of Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 and fo...
By Nora Bensahel
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Note on the Passing of Ambassador Richard Williamson
Today, all of us at CNAS mourn the passing of Ambassador Richard Williamson, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center and one of the country’s top foreign policy leaders. Rich ...
By Richard Fontaine & Richard Williamson
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Addition by Subtraction
Yes, we do need a better procurement model, especially for startups and small businesses. The compliance issue is also a killer, I recall many instances where I was put on the...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Asians Hedge Against ChinaBeijing's announcement of a new "air defense identification zone" that overlaps with existing Japanese and Korean airspace sent reverberations across the Indo-Pacific region. ...
By Ely Ratner, Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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A Better Procurement Model
Ben, you're totally right about our government contracts system. It is fundamentally un-American. In fact, when I teach on procurement issues, I usually describe it as a Sovie...
By Ben FitzGerald & Phillip Carter
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Family troubles: the nagging anxiety of North Korean leadership speculationThe hearse escort party at Kim Jong-Il’s funeral was once used to assess the political future of North Korea, its composition scrutinized for indications of whether Pyongyang ...
By Andrew Kwon
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Wanted: Asia-Pacific Strategy Guidance for the Interagency...and CongressThanks to the CNAS team for letting me share some brief thoughts on your new blog. While many think tanks in Washington have become more about the marketing of ideas and less...