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The Geopolitics of Deep-Sea Mining and Green Technologies
Commentary
Demand for exploiting minerals on the seabed is rising. But the hasty development of a DSM regulatory framework could heighten geopolitical competition and environmental degra...
By Jocelyn Trainer
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America’s 2021 Counterproliferation Finance Agenda
Commentary
The incoming Biden administration will have an opportunity to strengthen America’s counterproliferation finance regime....
By Jason Bartlett
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Why Stopping Environmental Crime Is a Matter of National Security
Commentary
Last week, the presidency of the Financial Action Task Force, the global intergovernmental standard-setter for combatting illicit financial threats, passed from China to Germa...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Energy Markets, Geopolitics, and COVID-19
Commentary
On May 14, members of the CNAS Energy, Economics, and Security (EES) program held a Twitter conversation on the impact of COVID-19 on energy markets and geopolitics. EES Progr...
By Sam Dorshimer & Abigail Eineman
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Covid‑19 and the oil price collapse
Rachel Ziemba, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins Roland Rajah, the Lowy Institute’s Director of the International Economy Program, an...
By Rachel Ziemba, Roland Rajah & Rodger Shanahan
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Negative oil prices: Why Asian nations may struggle to take advantage
Commentary
On 20 April, US oil futures closed in negative territory for the first time, implying that no one was willing to take physical delivery of some barrels of oil. While the unpre...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Is U.S. Policy Towards Venezuela at a Turning Point?
On March 31, the Trump administration announced a pivot in U.S. policy towards Venezuela. The United States has spent more than a year backing opposition leader Juan Guaido, w...
By John Hughes & Peter Harrell
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The China Challenge
Commentary
The United States and China are strategic competitors, and technology is at the center of this competition, critical to economic strength and national security. The United Sta...
By Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Paul Scharre
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Can Tariffs and Sanctions Lead to a Better Climate Change Strategy?
Commentary
A little more than two years since he announced in the Rose Garden that the United States was “getting out” of the Paris climate change agreement, President Donald Trump was i...
By Neil Bhatiya
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A Chat with Rachel Ziemba on Oil-Rich Sovereign Funds, Greener Investments, Freelance Mentality, Women Support Networks
Podcast
Leslie Palti-Guzman exchanges with Rachel Ziemba, founder of Ziemba Insights, a macroeconomic research firm. They chat about investments from oil-rich sovereign wealth funds (...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Energy Is America’s New Power
Commentary
When the Donald Trump administration released its National Security Strategy in December 2017, it celebrated the arrival of the United States as an energy-dominant world power...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Climate Change: The New Asian Drama
Commentary
When the Swedish economist and sociologist Gunnar Myrdal wrote his magisterial three volume study of postwar economic and political development in Asia, he questioned whether ...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Why Abandoning Paris Is a Disaster for America
Ever the showman, President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday about his soon-to-be-announced decision on whether or not to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement with the air of...
By Julianne Smith
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Michèle Flournoy before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
CNAS Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Michèle Flournoy testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the national security implica...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Dr. David F. Gordon before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Adjunct Senior Fellow Dr. David F. Gordon testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Multilateral International Development, Multilateral ...
By David Gordon
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Elizabeth Rosenberg before the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
Senior Fellow Elizabeth Rosenberg testifies before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade on the national security implications of a new oil exp...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Elizabeth Rosenberg before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Senior Fellow Elizabeth Rosenberg testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the United States' Crude Export Policy....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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CEO Michèle Flournoy: Statement to Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
CEO Michèle Flournoy submitted a Congressional Statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discussing United States Crude Export Policy....
By Michèle Flournoy
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SOTU: Elizabeth Rosenberg on the Falling Price of Oil
This year must be a pivotal one on energy policy. The dramatic fall in oil prices over the last six months, by almost 60 percent, and the economic and political fallout that w...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Elizabeth Rosenberg before Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources
Elizabeth Rosenberg, senior fellow and director of the Energy, Environment and Security program, testifies before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
