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Progressives Should Embrace the Politics of Defense
Commentary
In his essay on what a progressive national security agenda should look like, Van Jackson proposes to stretch the common progressive position of anti-militarism to a more real...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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American Foreign Policy Could Use More Prudence
Commentary
During George H. W. Bush’s single term in the White House, the Berlin Wall fell and Germany reunified peacefully, the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the Soviet Union crumbled and the ...
By Richard Fontaine
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There Is No Grand Bargain With China
Commentary
In true showmanship fashion, U.S. President Donald Trump is keeping the world in suspense about whether he will soon double down on the United States’ trade war with China or ...
By Ely Ratner
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Loren DeJonge Schulman on The Smell of Victory Podcast
Podcast
On The Smell of Victory Podcast, Bob Hein and Phil Walter sat down with Loren DeJonge Schulman of the Center for a New American Security to discuss the draft. Listen to the f...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump Gets NATO Backwards
Commentary
Returning from the World War I armistice commemoration in Paris, President Trump reemphasized his view of America’s European allies. “We pay for large portions of other countr...
By Richard Fontaine
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Amb. Nuland on N. Korea: The U.S. 'needs to get back into real diplomacy'
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Amb. Victoria Nuland, CEO of the Center for a New American Security and former Assistant Secretary of State, joins Ali Velshi to discuss reports that North Korea is moving ahe...
By Victoria Nuland
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US midterm elections 2018: Democrats abroad in the Indo-Pacific
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A partial "blue wave" crested over the US House of Representatives this week, ushering in a Democratic majority there for the first time in eight years. With Republicans stren...
By Richard Fontaine
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Four Ways Foreign Policy Could Change, and One Way It Won’t
Commentary
The blue wave that crested over the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday was just large enough to usher in a Democratic majority for the first time in eight years. Because ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Commentary: Right-Wing Extremism and Domestic Terrorism
Commentary
Like many security analysts of my generation, the 9/11 attacks shaped my scholarly interests and career trajectory. I have spent years researching jihadist terrorism in the Mi...
By Stephen Tankel
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The Chaos of Trump’s Would-be Birthright Citizenship Order
Commentary
In an interview with Axios released on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 30, President Trump indicated plans to sign an executive order revoking birthright citizenship—returning to...
By Carrie Cordero & Quinta Jurecic
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Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Hurt American Interests, Not Just American Values
Commentary
Most observers have seen the murder of Jamal Khashoggi as the latest example of an age-old tension in U.S. foreign policy: the pursuit of national interests versus the defense...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Anarchy That Came
Commentary
What I said was provocative, or at least deemed to be, by complacent champions of globalization. Yet evolution is inexorable. Technology in particular is not so much defeating...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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How President Trump is helping Beijing win in the South China Sea
Commentary
For years now, China has been at war against the United States in the South China Sea — only Washington didn’t notice until the process was well underway. The Chinese way of w...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Superpower Standoff: The U.S.-Chinese Battle for Global Supremacy
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Is the United States looking for a fight or a deal? That’s the fundamental question that a mystified Chinese scholar and former government official posed to me when we met rec...
By Ely Ratner
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‘Earning the Rockies’ author Robert Kaplan answers your questions
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Robert Kaplan, author of our September pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer questions from readers, plus Jeff announces ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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5 forgotten books about geography and place to read now
Commentary
Robert Kaplan said he knew the mixing of genres in “Earning the Rockies” ran the risk of alienating some readers. Parts of the book read like a travelogue, while others delve ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Write ‘what is absolutely true in your eyes,’ says best-selling author Robert Kaplan
Commentary
Our September pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This,” is “Earning the Rockies” by Robert D. Kaplan. Become a member of the book club by joining ou...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Admiral James Stavridis and Richard Fontaine: Extended Missions: The American Military Abroad
Podcast
The conflict in Afghanistan reaches its 17th anniversary in October, and US involvement in Iraq will be 15 years. Americans are aware of these wars, but what about the almost ...
By Richard Fontaine & James Stavridis
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Bloomberg Surveillance: Beyond the Trade War
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Ian Bremmer and CNAS's Robert Kaplan discuss with Tom Keene the causes and implications of the U.S./China trade war and the concepts around their respective new books, Us...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Robert D. Kaplan Says Trump Is 'Rhetorically Dismantling' U.S. Alliances
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Robert D. Kaplan, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security discusses U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign policy. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."Watch t...
By Robert D. Kaplan
