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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
Shaping U.S. Policy on Islamic State Amid Shifting PoliticsAn ABC News-Washington Post poll conducted after the Nov. 13 Paris attacks found that 73% of Americans support increased airstrikes against Islamic State and 60% favor increas...
By Richard Fontaine
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Why Closing Borders to Syrian Refugees Won't Stem Terrorist Threats
Reactions to the Middle East refugee crisis have been transformed by news that at least one of the Paris attackers traveled to Europe among a group of Syrian asylum-seekers. S...
By Richard Fontaine
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National Security Human Capital Program / Middle East Security
How to Fight-and Beat-ISISIn bringing terror to one of the world’s most beloved cities, ISIS did far more than wreak devastation on Parisians out for a Friday evening. The coordinated attacks ensured t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Projecting Power in the South China SeaBeijing’s land reclamation in the South China Sea has prompted reports that the U.S. Navy will soon conduct freedom of navigation exercises in the area. If they pass within 12...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Seoul's China GambitAt the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye called on the international community to turn its attention to North Korea and its nucl...
By Richard Fontaine
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Obama Needs an ISIS War Czar Before It's Too Late
With the Islamic State, or ISIS, still entrenched across a large swath of Iraq and Syria after a year of U.S.-led airstrikes, the Obama administration is under growing critici...
By Richard Fontaine
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After the Deal, Strengthen Our Iran Policy
With the president having secured the congressional votes necessary to ensure the Iran deal enters into force, our elected leaders should turn their attention to America’s bro...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Diplomacy in the Time of Repression
Note: Article originally published on Wall Street Journal Asia. Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s first state visit to Washington takes place this month amid China’s fiercest crackd...
By Richard Fontaine
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Lean Forward in Iraq
The announcement this month that 450 additional U.S. trainers and support troops will deploy to Iraq represents a modest step forward in the fight against the Islamic State. B...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Economic Growth Is a National Security Issue
From the polls, one might think that a stark partisan divide has developed about which issue is of greatest importance to the nation. Take The Wall Street Journal/NBC News sur...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Japan Leads a New Asian OrderPrime Minister Shinzo Abe’s address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress later this month will mark the first time a Japanese leader has spoken before America’s premier ven...
By Richard Fontaine
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Salvaging the Global Order
International order is all the rage these days. Not since end of Cold War has so much sustained attention focused on the web of norms, institutions, rules, and relationships t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Can We Finally Get an AUMF Right?On Wednesday the White House sent legislative text to the Senate and House of Representatives that would authorize military force against the self-declared Islamic State, init...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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Don’t Expect Too Much From Obama’s National Security Strategy
If there’s one notion that unites the national security community these days, it’s that the United States needs strategy. It needs a strategy for defeating the Islamic State, ...
By Richard Fontaine & Shawn Brimley
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New Delhi and Washington’s China Convergence
Just a few years ago, Pakistan would have dominated any conversation between an Indian prime minister and an American president. During President Obama’s visit to India this w...
By Richard Fontaine
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President Obama Goes to New Delhi
President Obama’s trip to India this month marks the first time an American has been “Chief Guest” at the country’s Republic Day ceremonies, and Obama becomes the first U.S. p...
By Richard Fontaine
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The steps a divided government can take to protect national interests
Contrary to the oft-stated ideal, politics has never stopped at the water’s edge, and it will be no different in 2015. Yet the United States is strongest when it is guided by ...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Pick Your Prism
This year has been filled with multiple, competing foreign policy crises, but 2014 has also been a year of dueling historical analogies. The trend began in January, when Japan...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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Time to govern
The midterm election handed control of Congress to the party whose traditional strength is national security. In developing its foreign policy agenda, the incoming Republican ...
By Elbridge Colby & Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
A Republican Congress Is Good News for AsiaHaving attended summits in China and Burma, President Barack Obama heads to Australia this weekend for the G-20 summit, all while carrying the albatross of his party’s elector...
By Elbridge Colby & Richard Fontaine