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CNAS President Richard Fontaine speaks to Fox's Benson and Harf on Senator John McCain
Commentary
U.S. Sen. John McCain, a war hero who survived five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, served three decades in Congress and went on to become the Republican Party's nomine...
By Richard Fontaine
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Commentary
National Security Human Capital Program
The Death of Political CourageMore than a decade ago, Senator John McCain sought to stop the Bush administration’s attempt to weaken the protections offered by the Geneva Conventions. The provision at issu...
By Richard Fontaine
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Standing Up for Democracy
Commentary
In its 2018 National Defense Strategy, released in January, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump correctly identified great-power competition as the United States...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Twining
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Rhetoric aside, NATO's strategic logic remains sound
Commentary
Transatlantic solidarity appeared strained on day one of the NATO summit, as leaders parried rhetorical blows from President Trump, including his charge that U.S. allies "owe ...
By Richard Fontaine
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The West Will Survive Trump
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As President Trump kicks off a bruising NATO summit, trans-Atlantic relations are said to be in the grip of an unprecedented crisis. On multiple fronts—defense spending, Iran ...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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The North Korean summit is over. Now for the hard part.
Commentary
President Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore was heavy on drama but ultimately light on specifics. Kim agreed to complete denuclearization, and the U.S. to provide ...
By Richard Fontaine
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The G7 summit will be contentious — for all the wrong reasons
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Leaders of the Group of 7 industrialized democracies will gather this week in Quebec for their annual meeting on the world's economy. Following the Trump administration's rece...
By Richard Fontaine
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Congress Should Oversee America’s Wars, Not Just Authorize Them
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Nearly 17 years after the 9/11 attacks, a bipartisan coalition of senators has put forward legislation that promises to overhaul the legal framework for America’s worldwide ca...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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Back to the future: North Korea policy returns to business as usual
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The cancellation of the widely anticipated Trump–Kim summit in Singapore represents the latest turn in a period of dramatic zig-zag diplomacy: Just a few months ago, the Presi...
By Richard Fontaine
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On China’s New Silk Road, Democracy Pays A Toll
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Great power competition is back. And China is now combining its vast economic resources with a muscular presence on the global stage. One of Beijing’s key efforts is the Belt ...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Kliman
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Korean summit sets stage for major test of commitment
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The summit between North Korea's Kim Jong-un and the South's Moon Jae-in was rich in symbolism and breathtaking in its dramatics. The two leaders — who just months ago were pr...
By Richard Fontaine
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Mike Pompeo Needs to Clean Up After Rex Tillerson
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Incoming Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will inherit a State Department at a genuine inflection point. Devalued by the White House they serve, and feeling demoralized and bere...
By Richard Fontaine
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U.S. policy on North Korea entering unknown territory
The secret early April visit to Pyongyang by Mike Pompeo, the CIA Director and Secretary of State nominee, suggests that the unprecedented summit between President Trump and N...
By Richard Fontaine
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Averting the U.S.-Russia Warpath
For nearly twenty years following the end of the Cold War, military confrontation between the United States and the Russian Federation seemed implausible. Even during periods ...
By Richard Fontaine, Alexander Velez-Green & James N. Miller, Jr.
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Defending America Means Defending Democracy
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In its new strategy documents, the Trump administration identifies America’s central security challenge as the re-emergence of great power competition. China and Russia seek t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Donald Trump's Davos journey from statesman to salesman
The notion of Donald Trump descending on the global economic elite at Davos stirred tremendous interest, not least across the Indo-Pacific. The WTO-sceptical, TPP-withdrawing,...
By Richard Fontaine
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Commentary
Technology & National Security
Congress Just Made Bipartisan Progress Against TerrorismLast year brought news both good and bad in the fight against terrorism. On the positive side, the Islamic State’s brutal “caliphate” has virtually collapsed under a U.S.-led ...
By Richard Fontaine
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America's Economic Future Hinges on Its Partnership with Asia
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Nearly a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration has started to craft a strategic narrative for its approach to Asia. This is atypical: it took Barack Obama ne...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Kliman
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To Strengthen Trump’s National Security Approach, Promote Human Rights
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In a series of tweets on New Year’s Eve, President Donald Trump expressed strong support for Iranians protesting against their autocratic regime. He added that the United Stat...
By Richard Fontaine & John Bellinger
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Trump Should Mind the Gaps in His National Security Strategy
Commentary
President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy has been published and the early returns are in. Perhaps as with all things Trumpian, reactions are strongly-held and all o...
By Richard Fontaine
