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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Kelly Sims Gallagher
Recently, I had the chance to correspond with Kelly Sims Gallagher, an Associated Professor of Energy and Environment Policy at the Fletcher School, where she covers energy po...
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This Weekend’s News: The Changing World
Last Friday afternoon, Sharon and I were walking back to the CNAS offices after a meeting and chatting about the indicators we see in our natural security research about the w...
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Weekly News Roundup: Climate Change Diplomacy
Climate change diplomacy is in the air. With the Copenhagen climate summit rapidly approaching, the newswires are abuzz with governments and private groups expressing their vi...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The blame game
A few people have been wondering about what Pakistanis make of the recent attacks that have taken place all around the north of the country. Londonstani has been travelling ar...
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Movie Review: There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood, a 2007 film very loosely based on the 1927 Upton Sinclair book Oil!, is really only partly about oil. At its core, it's a story of a man who absolutely ha...
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Trading Up in the Taiwan Strait
In the year and a half since President Ma Ying-jeou took office in Taipei, the world has witnessed an unprecedented rapprochement between China and Taiwan. The two sides have ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Weekly News Roundup: China’s Balance between Energy Security and Climate Cooperation
China has been pursuing a dual policy of energy security and climate change leadership. Several news reports this week chronicle China’s attempts to move forward aggressively ...
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The Iraqi Oil and Gas Framework: Some Background
I’ve heard a lot about Iraqi oil and the important role this resource plays in international politics, but I’ve never been clear about exactly what the Iraqi oil laws were. If...
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Reading Old Magazines: Taking Stock
Given all our recent work and the recent press on critical minerals (or “strategic” minerals; more on the distinction later), I gave a look back this week to Peter Harben’s 19...
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Suicide attacks in Iran - The Pakistan effect?
So a suicide bomber today killed "several top commanders in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards" and the Iranians blamed the US and the UK. So far, so predictable. But away from...
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Weekly News Roundup: Tradeoffs
An interesting theme emerged in natural security news this week: tradeoffs. As any economist will tell you, you can’t have it all. Tradeoffs are inevitable. Energy is no diffe...
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Reading Old Magazines: The New Geography of Conflict
Wars over timber, shrinking water supplies, and constant forward deployment of our military to protect oil and natural gas reserves, this was the vision that Michael Klare, th...
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CNAS Report Launch "China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power" - Highlight Video
Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg delivered the keynote address and The Honorable Patrick Cronin, Dr. Michael Green, Robert Kaplan, and Abe Denmark participated in a p...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Afghanistan and/vs. China
This may surprise some of you, but within the walls of 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., there is a pretty lively debate among the scholars and staff who work here about whether or not ...
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Events from Around Town: China and Climate Security
It is always great to get out of the office and I was fortunate enough yesterday to get over to my old stomping grounds at the Wilson Center for an event on China and Climate ...
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Panel Discussion at "China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power" - Video
The Honorable Patrick Cronin, Dr. Michael Green, Robert Kaplan, and Abe Denmark discuss the release of the CNAS report China's Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Rela...
By Michael Green, Patrick M. Cronin & Robert D. Kaplan
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Keynote Address by Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg at China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power
Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg delivered the keynote address at the release of the CNAS report China's Arrival: A Strategic Framework for a Global Relationship....
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Minerals and Security: Issues and Sources
With the help of Spencer Ackerman giving a nod to our use of music video to add a small glimmer of personality to the Natural Security Blog on what could have been a rather ru...
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On Hizballah's Strategy
As you might imagine, I have spent a lot of time in the bars and cafes of Beirut talking with journalists, analysts and other friends about Hizballah and its strategy. It's a ...
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Reading Old Magazines: The World’s Resources II- Minerals, Food, and Water
Recent reports of China’s corner on current production of rare earth minerals have caused quite a stir. In the recent proliferation of authors and institutes looking at U.S. m...