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America Must Promote Democracy, Despite Trump’s Disdain for It
Commentary
A dysfunctional U.S. democracy at home makes it less credible to support liberalism abroad....
By Richard Fontaine
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Uniting the Techno-Democracies
Commentary
The world’s advanced democracies have something the autocracies don’t: a long history of multilateral cooperation for the benefit of all....
By Jared Cohen & Richard Fontaine
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The Untapped Power of Trump’s Leverage
Commentary
The Trump administration would bequeath a stock of leverage to its successor....
By Richard Fontaine
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America Should Capitalize on Europe’s Unlikely Comeback from the Coronavirus
Commentary
A few months ago, Americans were praying for Europe. As the coronavirus ravaged the continent, they watched the lockdowns in Italy, worried about infection rates in Spain, and...
By Richard Fontaine
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China Has Squandered Its First Great Opportunity
Commentary
America has been lucky that Beijing hasn’t acted with more deftness this time around....
By Richard Fontaine
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Congress must use its tools to influence the decisions of war
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With its informal toolkit, Congress can question existing military and political strategies and test assessments about how the fight is going....
By Richard Fontaine & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Washington sees in Canberra the independent ally it needs
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Australia’s recent experiences contain important lessons for the U.S. and others worried about China’s long-term intentions....
By Richard Fontaine
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The U.S.-China confrontation is not another Cold War. It’s something new.
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With U.S.-China relations in free fall, the Trump administration’s chief arms control negotiator recently proclaimed that "we know how to win these races and we know how to sp...
By Richard Fontaine & Ely Ratner
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A Message to the CNAS Community
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Dear Members of the CNAS Community, The protests that have swept across all 50 states call for change that is both modest and monumental. Modest, by condemning the killing of ...
By Richard Fontaine
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To Prepare for a Crisis, Read Fiction
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Fiction and policy too rarely mix. The learned policymaker reads reports and journal articles, books and research papers, all aimed at injecting the highest-quality thinking i...
By Richard Fontaine
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Globalization Will Look Very Different After the Coronavirus Pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned new barriers at breathtaking speed. Closed borders, travel bans, paralyzed supply chains, and export restrictions have prompted many to ask w...
By Richard Fontaine
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We Need an Atlantic Charter for the Post-coronavirus Era
In August 1941, Winston Churchill climbed aboard the USS Augusta, anchored off the southeast coast of Newfoundland, ready to talk with Franklin D. Roosevelt, who awaited him o...
By Richard Fontaine
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Health Surveillance Is Here to Stay
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Washington’s post-9/11 debate about how much surveillance a free society should allow has suddenly become about much more than counterterrorism and national security. Amid tod...
By Carrie Cordero & Richard Fontaine
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Can the G7 Stop the Coronavirus?
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The world’s leading governments are throwing all they have into the coronavirus fight. Recent days have seen dramatic social distancing requirements, novel border controls, ma...
By Gary Edson & Richard Fontaine
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Virus Competition Is Wrecking China-U.S. Cooperation Hopes
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As Washington shifted its worldview over the last several years to a sharp focus on China competition, even the most claw-bearing hawks generally left open the possibility of ...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Afghan peace deal and its eerie parallels with Vietnam
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Last month marked a potential turning point in America’s 19-year war in Afghanistan. In signing a landmark peace agreement, the United States and the Taliban paved the way for...
By Richard Fontaine
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Clawing Back Constitutional War Powers
Commentary
Washington is in the early innings of what has the potential to become the most significant congressional claw-back of constitutional war powers authority since Vietnam. Follo...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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Power and Pretzels in Munich, 2020
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Once a year, the world’s foreign policy elite descend on Bavaria for a weekend to reconnect with colleagues, eat pretzels, and debate the shape of global order. The Munich Sec...
By Richard Fontaine
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After the killing of Soleimani, what’s next for US-Iran relations?
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Traveling with a congressional delegation to Iraq more than a decade ago, I recall one briefing by the US command in Baghdad. Soldiers had just caught several Iranians importi...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Enduring Relevance of Reagan’s Westminster Speech
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Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of three essays, commissioned by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, examining the legacy of Reagan’s Westmin...
By Richard Fontaine
