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Local Interests, Chinese Ambitions, and an Intelligent American Response
Commentary
Review of Daniel Markey, China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020). In his book China’s Western Horizon: Be...
By Emily Jin
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Sharper: The Future of U.S. Sanctions Policy
Commentary
Sanctions are increasingly common in U.S. foreign policy and economic statecraft. But they are not a cure-all....
By Kaleigh Thomas, Cole Stevens & Chris Estep
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Export Controls Will Become More Effective When They Include Plurilateral Controls
Commentary
Use of export controls to accomplish purely economic or trade policy objectives compromises the effectiveness of both the export control and the international trade systems....
By Kevin Wolf
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Shaping the Fourth Offset
Commentary
In pursuit of a Fourth Offset, export regulations may be radically reimagined to alter U.S. industry culture and commercial strategies....
By Theodore W. Kassinger
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For Effective Controls, Build Coalitions
Commentary
As strategic concerns about China and its industrial policy become more widespread, opportunities to build coalitions are expanding....
By Martin Chorzempa
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Export Controls Are Bigger and Broader. But Are We Safer?
Commentary
U.S. leaders must consider how export controls can be used effectively, and the circumstances in which export controls may be ill-suited to a policy objective....
By Peter Harrell
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Trade Controls are a Limited Tool of Foreign Policy
Commentary
If the goal is to ensure our adversaries acquire nothing that they need, we are doomed to failure....
By William A. Reinsch
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On Export Controls, the United States Must Focus on Effectiveness
Commentary
Export controls will be more effective if they are narrowly tailored to specific national security objectives....
By Peter Lichtenbaum
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China’s View of the United States’ Expanded Use of Export Controls
Commentary
China will respond by strengthening its self-sufficiency in critical technologies and safeguarding its core national interests....
By Ashley Feng
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Designing for Export: Industry and Government Roles
Commentary
The United States should enhance the exportability of U.S.-produced platforms and systems to U.S. allies....
By Tina Kaidanow
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As Warfighting Becomes High-Tech, Export Controls are the Front Line
Commentary
Export controls are effective in supporting the core U.S. policy goal of protecting U.S. military might....
By F. Amanda DeBusk
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To Protect America’s Edge, Focus on Tech Indigenization
Commentary
The best application of technology-focused export controls are ones that directly address the pursuit of indigenization....
By Martijn Rasser
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How Biden Could Use Trump’s Trade War Thumbscrews to Fight Climate Change
Commentary
Global climate change is undeniably a crisis, arguably the single greatest national security challenge the United States faces, and certainly a vastly greater threat than many...
By Peter Harrell
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A Council of Democracies Can Save Multilateralism
Commentary
The world desperately needs a new institution that is both global in reach and unified in vision....
By Edward Fishman & Siddharth Mohandas
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Sharper: Global Coronavirus Response
Commentary
Analysis from CNAS experts on the most critical challenges in U.S. foreign policy....
By Chris Estep & Cole Stevens
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How U.S. Sanctions Depend on the Federal Reserve
Commentary
Foreign policy professionals will have to understand what the Federal Reserve is doing and how it affects U.S. national security....
By Edoardo Saravalle
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Dirty Money Is an Ongoing Threat on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Commentary
Two developments last week, in the United Kingdom and the United States, highlighted how their common adversaries are still exploiting the global financial system, using long-...
By Neil Bhatiya
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How Sanctions Fail US Policymakers
Podcast
Eddie Fishman, who worked in Obama's State Department's Policy Planning Staff, joins to discuss his recent articles on sanctions and the world order. Listen to the full conve...
By Edward Fishman
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How Iran’s Oil Infrastructure Gambit Could Imperil the Strait of Hormuz
Commentary
A series of mysterious and seemingly random explosions continue to erupt across various parts of Iran this month, hitting sensitive military sites, as well as populated reside...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers & Ariane Tabatabai
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Closing the Deal: National Security and Investment Scrutiny
Video
The United States and other major economies are enhancing investment screening and export controls in areas sensitive to national security....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg, Peter Harrell, Carrie Cordero, David Cohen, Elbridge Colby, Wally Adeyemo, Deborah Lehr, Aimen Mir & Uzra Zeya
