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• Reports
  • June 22, 2021
  Sanctions by the Numbers: Spotlight on Venezuela

  As Venezuela battles a protracted financial and humanitarian crisis, U.S. sanctions on the country have emerged as controversial. This has sparked debate on whether the increa...

  By Jason Bartlett & Megan Ophel

• Reports
  • June 10, 2021
  A People-First U.S. Assistance Strategy for the Middle East

  Executive Summary For the past year, the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) has been developing a strategy for rethinking U.S. polic...

  By Ilan Goldenberg, Daphne McCurdy, Kaleigh Thomas & Sydney Scarlata

• Reports
  • May 27, 2021
  Advancing a Liberal Digital Order in the Indo-Pacific

  Executive Summary The United States and other regional democracies risk losing ground in the competition to shape Asia’s digital future. China is making rapid inroads in devel...

  By Lisa Curtis, Joshua Fitt & Jacob Stokes

• Reports
  • May 25, 2021
  Reassessing Homeland Security Intelligence

  Introduction The discipline of intelligence has been a central element of the homeland security enterprise over the past two decades since the terrorist attacks of September 1...

  By Christian Beckner

• Reports
  • May 20, 2021
  More than Half the Battle

  The DoD needs to embrace, rather than fight against, the changes in the character of warfare and learn to thrive within its chaos in ways that China and Russia may be unable t...

  By Chris Dougherty

• Reports
  • May 6, 2021
  Making Sense of Cents

  Executive Summary This report contextualizes the Biden administration’s discretionary funding request for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in fiscal year (FY) 2022, referr...

  By Stacie Pettyjohn & Becca Wasser

• Reports
  • May 4, 2021
  Sanctions by the Numbers: Spotlight on Cyber Sanctions

  Cyberattacks pose a serious threat to U.S. national security and the integrity of the global commerce and financial system, especially when state-sponsored actors conduct and/...

  By Jason Bartlett & Megan Ophel

• Reports
  • April 28, 2021
  Principles for the Combat Employment of Weapon Systems with Autonomous Functionalities

  Introduction An international debate over lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) has been under way for nearly a decade.1 In 2012, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued for...

  By Robert O. Work

• Reports
  • April 20, 2021
  Trust the Process

  The United States is navigating a new paradigm of competition, one that centers not merely on traditional measures of military might, but on technology innovation and its cont...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Ainikki Riikonen

• Reports
  • April 1, 2021
  Sanctions by the Numbers: Spotlight on Human Rights and Corruption

  Over the past five years, the U.S. government has imposed an unprecedented number of human rights and corruption-related sanctions....

  By Jason Bartlett & Megan Ophel

• Reports
  • March 31, 2021
  Positive Visions, Powerful Partnerships

  Restoring U.S. alliances and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific is critical to competing effectively against China....

  By Stephen Tankel, Lisa Curtis, Joshua Fitt & ​Coby Goldberg

• Reports
  • March 30, 2021
  Partners, Competitors, or a Little of Both?

  Executive Summary The Arctic’s melting icecaps are changing more than the geography of the region. The diminishing sea ice and declining snow cover have allowed for new shippi...

  By Jim Townsend & Andrea Kendall-Taylor

• Reports
  • March 11, 2021
  The Department of Homeland Security: Priorities for Reform

  There is an opportunity to reform the Department of Homeland Security in a way that best protects the country from homeland security threats, consistent with law, security and...

  By Carrie Cordero & Katie Galgano

• Reports
  • February 8, 2021
  Sanctions by the Numbers: Spotlight on North Korea

  The U.S. government has used a variety of coercive economic measures to combat the North Korean security threat....

  By Jason Bartlett & ​Francis Shin

• Reports
  • January 28, 2021
  Myths and Realities of China’s Military-Civil Fusion Strategy

  In U.S. policy debates on China, military-civil fusion (MCF) has emerged as a frequent subject of debate and concern....

  By Elsa B. Kania & Lorand Laskai

• Reports
  • January 26, 2021
  China’s Digital Currency

  China is pushing aggressively to be a global leader in financial technology....

  By Yaya J. Fanusie & Emily Jin

• Reports
  • January 21, 2021
  Sanctions by the Numbers: Spotlight on Russia

  Russia is the second-most sanctioned state by the United States in the past decade, with 742 designations....

  By ​Francis Shin

• Reports
  • January 19, 2021
  Networked: Techno-Democratic Statecraft for Australia and the Quad

  Australia is well positioned to lead the Quad to achieve important technology policy objectives....

  By Martijn Rasser

• Reports
  • January 14, 2021
  Sanctions by the Numbers: 2020 Year in Review

  Sanctions designations remained high in 2020, with 777 designations compared to 785 in 2019....

  By Sam Dorshimer & ​Francis Shin

• Reports
  • January 14, 2021
  Navigating the Deepening Russia-China Partnership

  In virtually every dimension of their relationship, cooperation between Beijing and Moscow has increased....

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & David Shullman