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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Video: Eighth Annual Conference: Energy, Iran and the Future of Gulf SecurityBy Colin H. Kahl & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Video: Eighth Annual Conference: Opening Remarks
By Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Plan to Counter Chinese AggressionWith China drilling for oil in contested waters off Vietnam and building artificial islands off the Philippines, U.S. policy clearly isn't curbing Beijing's ambitions to redra...
By Ely Ratner
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National Security Human Capital
Rebuilding Bipartisan Consensus on National SecurityPolitics, despite the saying, has never really stopped at the water’s edge. But these days, it seems, policymakers cannot even get to the beach before the sniping begins. The ...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Risky Business: Why Iran's Nuclear Demands Could Backfire
This week, Iranian and U.S. diplomats raced to Geneva for unscheduled, high-level bilateral talks. The news might have come as a surprise, but it shouldn’t have. The deadline ...
By Colin H. Kahl
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How America Must Lead
Recently, foreign policy watchers have been engaged in a frantic bout of hand-wringing over whether America will continue to play the role of global leader. Amid that discussi...
By Jacob Stokes & Julianne Smith
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Video: Chris Kolenda on U.S.-Afghanistan Relations
About the Video Panelists talked about the Obama administration’s proposed drawdown of troops from Afghanistan and its effects on U.S-Afghan relations. They also discussed the...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
We’re Not in Shangri-La Anymore: Both China and Japan Need Doses of RealityIf there is anything that the most anticipated speeches at the 2014 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Summit highlighted, it is that both the ...
By Nicole Yeo
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Budding Ocean EmpireI am flattered by Nilanthi Samaranayake’s lengthy and respectful treatment of my March 2009 Foreign Affairs cover story about the importance of the Indian Ocean, on the articl...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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National Security Human Capital
70 Years After D-Day, the Legacy of WWII Veterans Carries OnThe crash of naval gunfire and aerial bombing grew louder. His Higgins boat, one of thousands in the first wave, tossed in the Channel toward the overcast beaches of Normandy ...
By Chris Kolenda
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Europe's Deep Right-Wing Logic
It is undeniable that the right wing is ascendant in Europe. While leftist parties did well here and there in recent elections to the European Parliament, the story over recen...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Finding a Big Data "Safe Space" for the Energy Sector
The oil industry was one of the original "smart" industries, but its tradition of leadership in using data to improve operations, enhance security and serve markets has been d...
By Peter Gardett
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What to Listen for in Obama's Warsaw speech
President Barack Obama’s speech Wednesday in Warsaw will have three distinct audiences: the people of Poland and other countries in Central and Eastern Europe who have been se...
By Julianne Smith
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Moneyballing Obama's Foreign PolicyPresident Obama is feeling defensive about his foreign policy. And he is keen to use every metaphor in his toolbox to explain it. In his commencement address last week at West...
By Michael Horowitz
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How to Fix the VA
President Barack Obama had no choice but to accept Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki’s resignation. The VA inspector general’s interim report issued this week contained ...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
Video: Citizen-Soldiers in a Time of Transition: The Future of the U.S. Army National GuardBy Nora Bensahel
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National Security Human Capital
When 9,800 Doesn't Equal 9,800News coverage of President Obama's speech at West Point Wednesday focused on one seemingly hard and fast statement: The United States will keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan nex...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
Video: Michèle Flournoy discusses Obama's West Point Commencement Address on CNNBy Michèle Flournoy
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National Security Human Capital
Video: Michèle Flournoy discusses Obama's Plan for Afghanistan on PBS NewsHourBy Michèle Flournoy
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National Security Human Capital
Fontaine: Afghanistan Announcement is One Step Forward, Two Steps BackThe President’s decision to retain an initial residual force in Afghanistan of 9,800 troops represents a step forward in America’s efforts to succeed in that country. But his...
By Richard Fontaine