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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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What a Deal with Iran Needs
Today, CNAS released a paper by my colleague Dr. Colin H. Kahl that provides some important context for the talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries that took place earlier t...
By Jacob Stokes
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International Law Constrains U.S. Action in Syria
Two basic legal principles animate our current international system: states are sovereign, and they shall not, generally speaking, attack each other. The United Nations char...
By Phillip Carter
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The Danger of Strategic Distraction
By Shawn Brimley
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The President Is Right to Intervene, But Then What?
President Obama is right to take action in response to the Asad regime’s chemical attack on Syrian civilians. Yet in the absence of a strategy that aims at ending the broader ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Syria and the Responsibility to Protect
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a powerful emerging international norm. President Obama has given it lip service and he has taken modest, yet important, bureaucratic st...
By Richard Williamson
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Consequence Considerations of a Syrian Strike
Before any authorization to attack Syria is given, it is necessary to contemplate and take appropriate action to mitigate any negative consequences from the strikes. There are...
By Gordon Miller
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Transcript: CNAS 2013 Annual Conference - Assessing the Dangers of a Nuclear-Armed Iran
In a brief presentation at the 2013 CNAS Annual Conference on June 12, CNAS Senior Fellow Dr. Colin Kahl outlined a comprehensive framework to manage and mitigate the conseque...
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Iraq in Hindsight: Views on the U.S. Withdrawal
In Iraq in Hindsight: Views on the U.S. Withdrawal, Emma Sky offers a pointed critique of U.S. policy over the last decade, arguing that valuable lessons can be learned from t...
By Emma Sky
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Assessing U.S. Interests in Syria: Video Interview with Melissa Dalton
As the brutal conflict in Syria continues on, CNAS Visiting Fellow Melissa Dalton discusses U.S. interests in Syria and the tensions that exist within those interests....
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Video: U.S. Strategy in the Middle East After the Arab Spring
Watch the video of the "U.S. Strategy in the Middle East After the Arab Spring" panel at the CNAS 2012 Annual Conference....
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Video - The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., CNAS hosted a book launch for The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East by Dr. Marc Lynch, Non-Re...
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Video Highlights - The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., CNAS hosted a book launch for The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East by Dr. Marc Lynch, Non-Re...
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Halting the Descent: U.S. Policy Toward a Deteriorating Situation in Iraq
On March 21st, Dr. Colin H. Kahl, CNAS Senior Fellow, testified before the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. He discussed the security and political environm...
By Colin H. Kahl
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National Security Human Capital / Middle East Security
FPI Video: Time to Attack Iran? U.S. Policy & Iran's Nuclear ProgramForeign Policy Initiative (FPI) hosted the debate over the use of the military option against Iran's nuclear program with Elbridge A. Colby (research analyst at CNA), Jamie M....
By Elbridge Colby
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Foreign Affairs Live: Time to Attack Iran? A Debate
This video is part of a Foreign Affairs package: The Iran Debate -- To Strike or Not to Strike? On March 1 at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Foreign Affairs Ma...
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Will Iran Make Preemptive Strike?
Watch the latest video at <a href="/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://video.foxnews.com">http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com&...
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The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Colin Kahl: Ending the Iraq War
Georgetown professor and Pentagon advisor Colin Kahl on the logistics of ending the Iraq War....
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Evening Lecture Series: Robert Kaplan: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Robert Kaplan, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a national correspondent for "The Atlantic," presented "The Indian Ocean and the Future of America...
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Command Post: "Is the Change the U.S. Brought to Iraq Likely to Last?"
U.S. forces will be out of Iraq by the end of next month, after a nearly nine-year stay. Just how permanent are the changes the U.S. military and diplomatic corps have tried t...