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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
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Surveillance: A Story of Fading Tax Stimulus with Zentner
Podcast
Robert D. Kaplan, Author of "The Return of Marco Polo’s World" & Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow, says a trade war is merely an aspect of a world at amoral ge...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Asia Group's Tea Leaves Podcast: Robert Kaplan
Podcast
Kurt and Rich sit down with famed foreign correspondent and author Robert Kaplan to discuss great power rivalries in Asia – particularly between the United States an...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The Accompany They Keep: What Niger Tell Us About Accompany Missions, Combat, and Operations Other than War
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The Department of Defense just released the public report on the ambush in Niger last October that killed four U.S. soldiers — a succinct eight-page summary of the reportedly ...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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Robert D. Kaplan Says America Has to Support Free Trade
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Robert D. Kaplan, senior fellow at Center for A New American Security, discusses his new book and the importance of free trade for the U.S. He speaks with Tom Keene and Franci...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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American Strategy for a New International Order
Podcast
As part of the Zak Grand Strategy lecture series, CNAS welcomes Rebecca Friedman Lissner of Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and Mira Rapp-Hooper of the Pau...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Rebecca Friedman Lissner & Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper
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John Bolton thinks he can be tough. Can he also be fair?
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National Security Council staff usually stumble onto White House grounds every morning around 7, before most of the Beltway has had its first cup of coffee. The gate closing b...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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How Russia and China Could Come Unhinged
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We have moved from a world of ideological struggles in the 20th century to a world of geopolitical struggles in the 21st—or so goes the conventional wisdom. But technology is ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Robert Kaplan: Grand Strategy and the Return of Marco Polo's World
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The following is a transcript of Robert D. Kaplan's speech at the Michael J. Zak Grand Strategy Lecture on March 7th, 2018. KAPLAN: It is a great privilege and honor for me to...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Grand Strategy
Podcast
As part of our Michael J. Zak Grand Strategy Lecture series, Senior Fellow Loren DeJonge Schulman hosts four experts to discuss some fundamentals of grand strategy that are to...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Kelly Magsamen, Julianne Smith & Emma Ashford
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How Mike Pompeo Could Save the State Department
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Former congressman and CIA Director Mike Pompeo has a bio that sparkles even in Washington: top of his class at West Point, five years of Army service, Harvard Law, success in...
By Phillip Carter
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A Requiem for Rex’s Redesign
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President Trump’s decision to inform Rex Tillerson of his firing via tweet was a fitting end to what has been a historically weak and ineffective tenure as secretary of state....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Trap of Empire and Authoritarianism
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For thousands of years the tragedy of politics has been that empire affords the answer to chaos. Imperialism, as the Oxford historian John Darwin says, “has been the default m...
By Robert Kaplan
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Defending America Means Defending Democracy
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In its new strategy documents, the Trump administration identifies America’s central security challenge as the re-emergence of great power competition. China and Russia seek t...
By Richard Fontaine
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The History and Future of Heartland Security
Podcast
In his new report, Heartland Security, Bacevich Fellow, Harry Krejsa, argues foreign policy pays off for the middle class when domestic policy *makes* it pay off -- and nation...
By Harry Krejsa & Rachel Rizzo
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Victoria Nuland on "Face the Nation": Future of U.S. National Security
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After one year in office, the Trump administration faces a looming threat posed by the North Korean and Iranian regimes, an ongoing fight to defeat ISIS caliphate an...
By Victoria Nuland
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CNAS Responds: State of the Union 2018
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On January 30, 2018, President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address. The speech covered a wide array of accomplishments and challenges that the United States e...
