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Does 'America First' mean 'America Alone'?
Video
Are Washington's traditional allies confident that the U.S. will stand by them in their time of need? Does "America First" really mean "America Alone?" Or perhaps a U.S. that ...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Nonintervention Delusion
Richard Fontaine addresses the most frequently expressed concerns about U.S. military interventions and concludes that the use of military force will remain a key component of...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Most Dangerous Moment of the Trump Presidency
Commentary
For all of the uncertainty of the Trump administration’s nearly three years in power, genuine international crises have been rare. That’s changing right now. The attack a week...
By Richard Fontaine
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Great-Power Competition Is Washington’s Top Priority—But Not the Public’s
Commentary
For all the acrimony in Washington today, the city’s foreign policy establishment is settling on a rare bipartisan consensus: that the world has entered a new era of great-pow...
By Richard Fontaine
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What would John McCain do?
Commentary
A year ago, the world lost Sen. John McCain. The global response to his passing — largely grief and appreciation from allies and democratic activists, mostly silence from adve...
By Richard Fontaine
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Don’t Peg Troop Withdrawals to the Political Calendar
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made news this week by suggesting that President Donald Trump has instructed him to pursue troop reductions in Afghanistan by Election Day 2020....
By Richard Fontaine
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Can South Korea and America Find a Common Position on China?
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The image two weeks ago of Presidents Donald Trump and Moon Jae-in greeting Kim Jong Un in the Korean Demilitarized Zone captivated the world. The impromptu, trilateral meetin...
By Richard Fontaine, Kristine Lee & Hannah Suh
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Living on the Edge: Strengthening American Competitiveness
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Richard Fontaine highlights the range of national security challenges facing the United States....
By Richard Fontaine
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Presentation of the 1LT Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. Award
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Kristine Lee and Cole Stevens are recognized as the 2019 recipients of the 1LT Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. Award....
By Richard Fontaine, Andrew J. Bacevich, Cole Stevens & Kristine Lee
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Early days of the China feud
Podcast
Richard Fontaine joins The John Batchelor Show to discuss his recent essay in The Atlantic about the likelihood of a trade deal between the United States and China, as well as...
By Richard Fontaine
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Modi's Victory Is America’s Opportunity
Commentary
History’s largest election has swept Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party back to power in India. More than six-hundred-million Indian voters cast ballots that decisively ga...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Forever Trade War
Commentary
America’s relationship with China has taken a turn toward the confrontational. Tariffs are rising, rhetoric is heating up, and both sides are digging in....
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Softens Escalating Iran War Rhetoric
The Trump administration is sounding warnings about Iran and building up force in the Persian Gulf, but the president's aversion to foreign intervention also weigh on his fore...
By Richard Fontaine
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From Truman to Trump, why Kansas City matters to NATO
Commentary
Last week in Washington, D.C., representatives from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 29 member states marked the 70th anniversary of the transatlantic alliance. They c...
By Derek Chollet & Richard Fontaine
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NATO Secretary General sounds notes of caution for alliance
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Today Jens Stoltenberg became the first NATO Secretary General to address a joint session of Congress, where he touted the alliance's success and emphasized the continuing nee...
By Richard Fontaine
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Podcast: The Autocrat’s New Tool Kit
A new set of technological tools—some of them now maturing, others poised to emerge over the coming decade—seem destined to wind up in the hands of autocrats around the world....
By Richard Fontaine, Kara Frederick & Paul Scharre
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The Autocrat’s New Tool Kit
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Chinese authorities are now using the tools of big data to detect departures from “normal” behavior among Muslims in the country’s Xinjiang region—and then to identify each su...
By Richard Fontaine & Kara Frederick
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The Inevitable Return of Muddling Along in North Korea
Commentary
Since the collapse of nuclear talks in Hanoi last week, North Korea experts have argued about what went wrong. Donald Trump should have structured his offer differently, some ...
By Richard Fontaine
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U.S.-India Relations: The Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy Bright Spot
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It’s customary these days to lament U.S. relations with allied countries like Germany and Canada, or to worry about warmth with unfriendly ones like Russia and North Korea. Ti...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Shutdown Is Great News for Russia
Commentary
The longest government shutdown in American history is making headlines around the world. It will also have global effects, none of them good. U.S. political leaders, so unabl...
By Richard Fontaine
