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If you thought the Dept. of State was bad in Afghanistan in 2009...
There are some pretty terrible horror stories in Rajiv Chandrasekaran's new book, but while reading the new John Lewis Gaddis biography of George F. Kennan, I learned that U.S...
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Transcript: Economics and Security: A Conversation with Robert Zoellick
Read the transcript of the "Economics and Security" session, featuring Robert Zoellick, at the CNAS 2012 Annual Conference....
By Robert Zoellick
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Economics, Security and Law of the Sea
This morning, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold its third hearing on the Law of the Sea Convention that will focus exclusively on the economic benefits of ratif...
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Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
In Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former CNAS Writer-in-Residence and senior correspondent and associate editor at The Washingto...
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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Video Part II - Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan Book
On June 26, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted the book launch for Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, senior c...
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Video Part I - Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan Book Launch
On June 26, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted the book launch for Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, senior cor...
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Four Reasons Why Oil Alone is Not the Answer to Iraq’s Woes
Some have suggested recently that renewed Iraqi crude oil production could be a boon to the country’s future, but a closer look shows that oil alone will not rejuvenate the Pe...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A with Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Rajiv Chandrasekaran's excellent if depressing new book Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan comes out today. You may have already read excerpts in the Washi...
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Guest Post: Learning from Greece the Hard Way
Kelsey Atherton, who blogs at Plastic Manzikert, writes in to examine the tradeoff between the military and diplomatic sources of national power from a historical perspective....
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U.S. East Coast a “Hot Spot” for Sea Level Rise
According to a new study released Sunday by the journal Nature Climate Change, sea level rise is expected to affect the U.S. East Coast at a faster rate than the rest of the w...
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Existential Threats and Policy Pt III: Welcome to the Thunderdome
I'll conclude my (unplanned) three-part series on existential threats, existential risks, and policy with a some concluding observations. It is useful to understand the conce...
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Moms, Dads, and Washington
Anne-Marie Slaughter has decisively demonstrated why she is one of America's most valuable public intellectuals with this thought-provoking cover story in the Atlantic. I reco...
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Addendum: Some Thoughts On Existential Risk
To expand on the previous entry, I would like to talk a little bit more about the concept of existential risk as a bit of a thought experiment. Existential risk is, by definit...
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Thursday Tweets of the Week
From The Washington Post @washingtonpost: “Japan approves bringing first nuclear reactors back online since last year's tsunami: wapo.st/KIkt3v.” The Washington Post reports t...
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Nukes and Credit Default Swaps
While re-reading John M. Collins' text on grand strategy (written in 1973), I'm struck to the degree to which US strategic thinking has not adapted to the systemic shift broug...
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The Special Operationalization of U.S. Foreign Policy
In case you missed it, I wrote a series of columns for World Politics Review on what I see to be a disturbing trend in U.S. foreign policy: the increasing belief that special ...
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Whither the Carter Doctrine? Reassessing U.S. Energy Interests in the Middle East
This post originally appeared on the Choke Points blog at ConsumerEnergyReport.com. America’s relationship with Middle East energy resources is changing. Technological breakth...
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The Arab Spring's Second Bloom
When did the Arab Spring end? Some analysts place it in March 2011—the start of the “Arab Winter” or the week when “the empire struck back,” in the words of Marc Lynch. And it...
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A Huge Congratulations to ...
... U.S. Army LTC and CNAS Military Fellow Tony DeMartino, who was awarded the French Order of Merit for his service in Afghanistan. I got through about eight lines of La Mars...
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Price Tags
And now, some really disturbing news out of the West Bank: JERUSALEM — A West Bank mosque was burned and vandalized early on Tuesday, with graffiti warning in Hebrew of a “war...