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North Korea Must Come Clean About Its Dirty Money
Commentary
With the June 12 summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un having concluded with a joint statement establishing the mutual desire for the “denuclearization of the Korean pen...
By Neil Bhatiya & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Breakout Briefer: Stability at Stake: Addressing Critical Regions Facing Complex Climate, Security, and Nuclear Risks
Commentary
When the Working Group on Climate, Nuclear, and Security Affairs met in May 2017, it affirmed that there are no linear, predictable pathways for catastrophic events in either ...
By Neil Bhatiya
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China's Economic Coercion and the Potential U.S. Response
Podcast
Neil Bhatiya, Research Associate in the Energy, Economics, and Security Program, leads a discussion on China's use of coercive economic measures and how the United States can ...
By Neil Bhatiya, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Edoardo Saravalle & Peter Harrell
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Is It Wishful Thinking to Expect the U.S. to Return to the Paris Climate Deal?
Commentary
In his staunch defense of multilateralism delivered to the U.S. Congress earlier this week, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his hope that the United States would no...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Don't Let Up on North Korea Now
Commentary
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may or may not be right in thinking that its “maximum pressure” campaign has brought North Korea to the bargaining table. Wha...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Will a Centralized Environmental Policy Speed Up the Greening of Chinese Society?
Commentary
As part of the same 13th National People’s Congress that abolished his term limits, Chinese President Xi Jinping oversaw a significant Cabinet reshuffle earlier this month. Th...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Want to really hit Russia’s oligarchs? Shine a light on their money
Commentary
On Tuesday the U.S. intelligence community testified to the Senate that Russia would continue to try to interfere in U.S. elections. The testimony once again drew attention to...
By Neil Bhatiya
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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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The Missing Piece in the World’s North Korea Strategy
Commentary
Last Wednesday, the United States Treasury added to its economic pressure campaign against North Korea, sanctioning a variety of entities the Kim regime uses to evade internat...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Breaking the Iran Deal and Imposing New Sanctions Would Hurt Iranian Protesters Most
Commentary
The popular demonstrations that erupted in Iran in late December, the largest since the Green Movement protests in 2009, have created a pretext for the Trump administration to...
By Neil Bhatiya & Edoardo Saravalle
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Why ditching the Iran nuclear deal would be bad for China, India and the rest of Asia
Commentary
Now that US President Donald Trump has declared that Iran is not in compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the status of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action depends on...
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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Iran's Post-Sanctions Financial Windfall Was Overstated. What Does That Mean for Policy?
Commentary
The Trump administration seems poised to scuttle the Iran nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Agreement (JCPOA). If it does, this decision will be a triumph for...
By Edoardo Saravalle & Neil Bhatiya
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Over-aggressive sanctions in Venezuela would backfire on the United States
Frustrated by a deteriorating situation in Venezuela, the Trump administration has widenedits sanctions program on the Maduro government, sending a strong signal to the regime...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Iran May Have a Lot of Friends in a Future Sanctions Fight With the United States
Read the full article in World Politics Review....
By Neil Bhatiya
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The Untapped Geopolitical Power of U.S. Natural Gas
Many in the United States and among our foreign allies are deeply disappointed by President Trump’s retreat from global leadership. What is equally depressing is how the admin...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Climate Change Conundrum
When President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate change agreement negotiated by his predecessor and adopted in 2015, internati...
By Neil Bhatiya
