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Fallout from the New Oil War
Commentary
On the back of Covid-19–related economic declines and a corresponding fall in demand for energy, oil markets have collapsed in recent days. This has contributed to a massive m...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Busting North Korea’s Sanctions Evasion
Commentary
North Korea is the most sophisticated, creative, and dangerous actor when it comes to stealthy and skillful methods of financing illicit nuclear and missile proliferation. Whi...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Trump Has Made Sanctions a Path to Strikes
Commentary
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to kill the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani, the architect of Iran’s political and military influence in the Middle East, and the Irani...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Add Economic Policy to Deterrence Planning
Commentary
American defense leaders have adapted over the years to shifts in technology and conflict — for example, accepting space and cyber as principal warfighting domains and integra...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Jordan Tama
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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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Beyond the Trade War
Commentary
In an essay for Foreign Affairs, Ely Ratner, Elizabeth Rosenberg, and Paul Scharre write that "the United States needs a fundamentally different approach to economic competiti...
By Ely Ratner, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Paul Scharre
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Situation Report: U.S.-North Korea Negotiations to Resume This Weekend
Commentary
After months of stalled talks, U.S. and North Korean representatives will meet this weekend to resume negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Just this week, ...
By Duyeon Kim, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Kristine Lee, Van Jackson & Neil Bhatiya
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Proliferation Finance: Critical Issues and Priorities for Congress
Commentary
The lack of effective and universal financial controls to prevent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation is a gaping security vulnerability for the international comm...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg, Neil Bhatiya, Claire Groden & Ashley Feng
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There Is Still Time for Diplomacy With Iran
Commentary
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced this week that Iran would stop complying with certain elements of the 2015 nuclear agreement. The announcement, a year after Preside...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Maximum Pressure on Iran Won’t Work
Commentary
This week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo moved to end sanctions waivers on Iranian oil—a major step to increase financial pressure on Tehran. The new policy, once it goe...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The Impact of U.S. Sanctions on Iranian Oil
Commentary
This conversation originally appeared in The Iran Primer. On April 22, the Trump Administration announced that it will stop providing sanctions exemptions to countries that im...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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7 Things America Can Do to Counter International Nuclear Threats
Commentary
Fifteen years ago, the global effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons was dealt an enormous shock. In the aftermath of the dismantling of Libya’s nuclear weapons progr...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Congress must face reality in exposing Russian aggression
Commentary
The shakeup of members of the new Congress provides an opportunity for changing United States foreign policy. After two years of criticizing much of what the Trump administrat...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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China and the EU Are Growing Sick of U.S. Financial Power
Commentary
This month, the United States imposed on Iran its most draconian round of sanctions yet. These measures made clear something the global community has long known: When it comes...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Edoardo Saravalle
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What Impact Will New U.S. Sanctions Have on Iran?
Commentary
The Trump Administration is imposing new sanctions on Iran’s oil exports on November 5. What impact are sanctions likely to have on Iran? How do these sanctions differ from pr...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The EU Can’t Avoid U.S. Sanctions on Iran
Commentary
Late last month, the European Union and China announced that they intended to set up a special global payments system to allow companies to continue to trade with Iran despite...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Tightening Sanctions on Russia
Commentary
With Congress actively debating new sanctions on Russia, the United States may be poised to enact the first significant increase in economic pressure on Russia since Congress ...
By Peter Harrell & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The Trump administration's Iran strategy may be high-cost, low-return
Commentary
The U.S. administration’s signals that it will take a tough line on the reimposition of Iran oil sanctions in November, notwithstanding indications that it may consider some e...
By Rachel Ziemba, Edoardo Saravalle & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The China Challenge
Commentary
[remarks as prepared for delivery at the CNAS Annual Conference, June 21, 2018] [Ely Ratner] Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for being here today. My name is Ely Ratner...
By Ely Ratner, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Daniel Kliman
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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
