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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
In Japan’s defense change, context is everythingWASHINGTON/HONOLULU – The announcement by Japan’s government that it will reinterpret the country’s constitution and permit a greater range of military activity has evoked rea...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
The Case for U.S. Arms Sales to VietnamWhen Beijing built a deep-sea drilling platform squarely in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone earlier this summer, it once again flouted widely accepted rules and sought to ex...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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For Afghanistan Election, After Kerry Deal Comes the Hard Part
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s shuttle diplomacy in Kabul this weekend paved the way to resolving Afghanistan’s current election crisis, while helping to establish a pot...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Recent Trends in the South China Sea and U.S. Policy: Day 1, Panel 1By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital / Middle East Security
How worried should U.S. policymakers be about nuclear blackmail?In recent years, a new generation of scholars has increasingly turned to sophisticated statistical methods to tackle decades-old questions regarding the causes and consequence...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Xi’s Visit Brings No Breakthrough in China-South Korea TiesLast week’s China-South Korea summit confirmed the good relations between Beijing and Seoul under Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye. When t...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China’s territorial advances must be kept in check by the United StatesThis month, China will participate for the first time in the U.S.-led Rim of the Pacific naval exercise, better known as RIMPAC. Four Chinese navy ships, including a destroyer...
By Ely Ratner & Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
US should help Vietnam counter China's coercionLast October, during a visit by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung promised to buttress "political trust" between the two South China Sea (SCS)...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Park’s Central Asia Tour Reaffirms South Korea’s Eurasian VisionSouth Korean President Park Geun-hye’s high-profile six-day visit to Central Asia last week imparted further momentum to her “Eurasia initiative," intended to deepen South Kor...
By Richard Weitz
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Problem with Rules: Managing a Reluctant StakeholderMany admonish the United States for not finding a more far-sighted way to manage strategic competition with a reemerging China. However, the ongoing search for a bilateral str...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Eurasia's Ongoing CrackupEurasia -- from Iberia to the Korean Peninsula -- faces the prospect of epochal change. These disruptions are not always in the headlines, and they obscure vast areas of stabi...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Time to Actively Deter North KoreaIt is only a matter of time before North Korea flaunts its ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead, deploy intercontinental ballistic missiles and road-mobile missile launche...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Obama repeats his Iraq mistake in AfghanistanAs the Obama administration grapples with how to respond to the terrorist takeover of northern Iraq, one consequence of the crisis should be clear: There is an urgent need to ...
By Vance Serchuk
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
New Komeito: if Japan enters a combat zone, turn right ‘round and come on homeBig things are afoot in Tokyo, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government nears a milestone in its attempts to make Japan a more normal country on national defence. Abe wants t...
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Learning From Iraq to Prepare for Afghanistan’s Post-2016 FutureIn a revealing quirk of history, the crisis in Iraq caused by the sudden onslaught of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) can help us better understand possible scenari...
By Richard Weitz
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Twitter Reacts to the CNAS Debate: War with Iran?Two of the country's top collegiate debate programs - Georgetown University and the University of Michigan - squared off on one of the most contested foreign policy issues of ...
By JaRel Clay
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Video: Eighth Annual Conference: Risk and Opportunity in Indo-Pacific AsiaBy Patrick M. Cronin
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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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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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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