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Profound Uncertainty in Munich: Is the United States Committed to European Security?
This year’s Munich Security Conference once again stood out as the premier international gathering of national security policymakers and thinkers. Anticipation was high in the...
By Richard Fontaine
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Is America No Longer the Middle East's Greatest Power?
When Russia launched a dramatic military intervention in Syria in fall 2015, it stunned the world and announced its return to the Middle East. Its move also surprised American...
By Richard Fontaine
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What’s a NATO Ally Worth: Getting Beyond the Two Percent Benchmark
Commentary
This week Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis delivered some tough love to America’s allies in Europe. Addressing NATO defense ministers, Mattis offered “clarity on the political ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump's Pivot to Asian Allies Begins
Commentary
In most respects, the White House meeting between President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fairly routine. The two leaders lauded each other and the alliance that bin...
By Richard Fontaine
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If America Refuses to Lead
Just a few months ago, the notion of China as the savior of international order would have struck most as fanciful, even absurd. Yet President Xi Jinping’s debut at Davos last...
By Richard Fontaine & Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Obama’s Foreign-Policy Legacy: The Limits of American Restraint
It was clear from the outset that Obama would preside over national retrenchment. George W. Bush had waged a global war on terror and campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, pursue...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Russia co-operation plan faces big obstacles
For all his shifting policy positions throughout the campaign, president-elect Donald Trump has been consistent on one issue: he would like better ties with Russia. Even befo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Australia and President Trump: Four Risks and Twelve Opportunities
Ask any American foreign policy official to list the strongest U.S. alliances and Australia will be at or near the very top. Looking back at history and into the future, there...
By Richard Fontaine
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How Trump Can Save the Liberal Order
During the campaign, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump made it clear that he does not like the prevailing international order and rejects key components of traditional U.S. fo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Australia’s Ambivalence Makes It Vulnerable
With Washington’s rising focus on Asia, America’s close and longstanding alliance with Australia has taken on new significance. Australia today is boosting its military streng...
By Richard Fontaine
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A Thaw in the US-New Zealand Nuclear Freeze
The visit of a U.S. Navy warship to New Zealand in November will mark the close of a 30 year period of security estrangement between two democratic nations. Announced during V...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Forging a Consensus on China’s BullyingThe Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague has handed the United States a unique opportunity to rally opposition to China’s designs in the South China Sea and to preserve...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Vietnam: From enemy to partner(CNN) – Traveling to Vietnam with Sen. John McCain a few years ago, it was clear to me just how far the relationship between two former enemies had come. Viewing the dark cel...
By Richard Fontaine
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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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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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CNAS Commentary: A Bipartisan National Security Agenda for an Election Year
As the country turns its attention to the Democratic and Republican primaries, it is tempting to assume that the United States should postpone any bold national security moves...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Doom and Gloom: Five Key Takeaways from the Munich Security Conference
Last weekend, the world’s national security establishment gathered for the annual Munich Security Conference. What was once an exclusively transatlantic affair has become far ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Obama’s ‘Slippery Slope’ Delusion
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama sounded a familiar and somewhat defensive theme about the Islamic State. Let’s not overreact, he said, against “masse...
By Richard Fontaine
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Refugees Need New Places to Live—and Jobs When They Get There
Four years ago the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan did not exist. Today, housing about 80,000 Syrian refugees just miles from the international border, it is one of Jo...
By Richard Fontaine
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The U.S. Can Thaw India-Pakistan Relations
Narendra Modi’s surprise Christmas Day visit to Pakistan stunned the world. Photos of the Indian prime minister holding hands in Lahore with his counterpart Nawaz Sharif offer...
By Richard Fontaine
