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CNAS 2016 Tenth Annual Conference: Defense Innovation – Between a Rock and a Cliché
BEN FITZGERALD: Good morning, everyone. If you take a look at your agendas, you’ll see that this talk is about innovation, but really, I want to talk about one thing: why ch...
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CNAS 2016 Tenth Annual Conference: Global Changing Energy Markets and U.S. Strategic Opportunities
MR. : Welcome, everybody. Can I get your attention for just one minute, and I won’t keep you from eating lunch, but before we get started there are four poll questions wh...
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CNAS 2016 Tenth Annual Conference: Foreign Policy Inheritance
KATHERINE KIDDER: Well, we have the privilege of welcoming in our last panel of the day. So if the 2016 presidential election process has shown us anything, it is that the U...
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Dynamic Rebalance: An Alliance Requirements Roadmap
On May 26, 2016, CNAS hosted a rollout event for the Asia-Pacific Security Program’s latest report titled “Dynamic Rebalance: An Alliance Requirements Roadmap.” The authors be...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
U.S. ‘Ambiguity’ on Taiwan Is DangerousIf China were to attack Taiwan, would American forces come to the island’s defense? It is hard to know because the U.S. maintains a policy of “strategic ambiguity” concerning ...
By Elbridge Colby
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The liberal international order is under fire. The United States must defend it.
Hardly a day goes by without evidence that the liberal international order of the past seven decades is being eroded. China and Russia are attempting to fashion a world in the...
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Notable & Quotable: Anarchy in the 21st Century
From foreign-affairs analyst Robert D. Kaplan's "The Post-Imperial Moment: Vulgar, populist anarchy will define the twenty-first century" in the May-June issue of the National...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
How China Sees World OrderChina's rapid ascent to great-power status has, more than any other international development, raised concerns about the future of the liberal international order. Forged in t...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper & Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Protecting the Rule of Law on the South China SeaLater this year, The Hague is expected to render its decision in a dispute over China’s land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea. Most observers expect the court to rul...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review CommissionDr. Mira Rapp-Hooper, senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific Security Program, testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on “China and the U.S. Rebala...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Saving the South China Sea Without Starting World War IIIAt present, Australia, Japan, India and South Korea are all active in the Southeast Asian security environment, engaged in everything from arms sales to combined military trai...
By Van Jackson
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China Looms Large in Australia's New Strategy
For a middle power, Australia has long defined its national interests in very broad terms. It has sent its troops alongside U.S. forces to Iraq and Afghanistan, and over the y...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Short-Term Victory In the South China SeaThe sands are quickly shifting in the South China Sea. New reports suggest that China may be preparing to conduct land reclamation at Scarborough Shoal, which is seized from t...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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What the U.S.-China Experience Can Teach About Iran’s Future
The results from Iran’s recent elections indicate that reformists and moderates have made gains in both the parliament and the Assembly of Experts—the body that will pick the ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Right Way to Sanction China
Over the last five years, the United States has struggled to influence Chinese behavior. Washington’s responses to Beijing’s increasingly assertive activities—ranging from eco...
By Eric Lorber
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China is Cruising for a Bruising
China is attempting to create a situation wherein the United States, to uphold international law, will either have to accede to their territorial claims in the South China Sea...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Eurasia's Coming Anarchy
As China asserts itself in its nearby seas and Russia wages war in Syria and Ukraine, it is easy to assume that Eurasia’s two great land powers are showing signs of newfound s...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Confronting China in the South China SeaOn January 29, the USS Curtis Wilbur, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, a Chinese-held islet in the South China Sea that is also cl...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
North Korea Ignites a Predictable Chain ReactionNorth Korea’s fourth nuclear test set in motion a predictable chain reaction. I refer not to the precision of nuclear physics, but to the same old policy responses from all re...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Stop the Navy's carrier plan
When there is a crisis anywhere in the world, the president’s first question often is, “Where are the aircraft carriers?” The modern supercarrier lies at the very center of Am...
By Jerry Hendrix