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• Reports
  • September 15, 2020
  Sanctions by the Numbers

  This edition of Sanctions by the Numbers explores Iran sanctions, tracking how designations and delistings have evolved over time, the dozens of countries affected by Iran-rel...

  By Abigail Eineman

• Reports
  • September 3, 2020
  The Razor’s Edge: Liberalizing the Digital Surveillance Ecosystem

  Democracies must resist the impulses to build permanent digital surveillance infrastructures or risk losing a broader global contest between open societies and repressive regi...

  By Kara Frederick

• Reports
  • September 2, 2020
  Toward a More Proliferated World?

  U.S. policy must adapt unless Washington wants to be faced with a more proliferated world in the future....

  By Eric Brewer, Ilan Goldenberg, Joseph Rodgers, Maxwell Simon & Kaleigh Thomas

• Reports
  • August 4, 2020
  United Kingdom Veteran Landscape

  Executive Summary A close history of collaboration in national security and diplomacy between the United States and United Kingdom leads to many similarities between military ...

  By Emma Moore, Kayla M. Williams & Zachary Jaynes

• Reports
  • August 4, 2020
  Reengaging Iran

  The international community may find Iran ready to consider a return to negotiations in 2021—regardless of the results in November....

  By Ilan Goldenberg, Elisa Catalano Ewers & Kaleigh Thomas

• Reports
  • July 30, 2020
  Congress’s Hidden Strengths

  Introduction On matters of peace and war, virtually no one seems satisfied with Congress. Constitutionally coequal to the executive, the Congress often appears more an uneasy ...

  By Richard Fontaine & Loren DeJonge Schulman

• Reports
  • July 28, 2020
  Open Future

  Executive Summary Communication networks are the central nervous system of the 21st century economy. The fifth generation of wireless—5G—will be essential to and inseparable f...

  By Martijn Rasser & Ainikki Riikonen

• Reports
  • July 23, 2020
  Intelligence Transparency and Foreign Threats to Elections

  The threat of malign foreign interference in the campaign season and election system looms....

  By Carrie Cordero

• Reports
  • July 20, 2020
  Restoring Strategic Competence

  Executive Summary For the foreseeable future, America’s Northeast Asian allies Japan and South Korea must live in the shadow of a nuclear North Korea, whose capabilities they ...

  By Van Jackson

• Reports
  • July 9, 2020
  Investing in Great-Power Competition

  Executive Summary This report asks whether the 2021 U.S. defense budget request is aligned with the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) in selecting priority capability inves...

  By Susanna V. Blume & Molly Parrish

• Reports
  • June 15, 2020
  Sanctions by the Numbers

  In February, CNAS launched Sanctions by the Numbers, a project to track U.S. sanctions designations and delistings. In this second installment, heat maps show the most heavily...

  By Abigail Eineman

• Reports
  • June 11, 2020
  Called to Lead

  Authors Barrett Bogue and Dr. Andrew Morse examine the connections between military service and higher education leadership roles based on interviews with veterans who work in...

  By Barrett Y. Bogue & Dr. Andrew Morse

• Reports
  • May 28, 2020
  Comparing VA and Non-VA Medical Centers

  Introduction Implementation of the Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act of 2018 is anticipated to result in expanded access...

  By Jill Inderstrodt & Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth

• Reports
  • May 12, 2020
  Reforming the Department of Homeland Security Through Enhanced Oversight & Accountability

  In a new report, Carrie Cordero outlines the pressures placed on DHS's immigration enforcement, border security, and law enforcement components....

  By Carrie Cordero

• Reports
  • May 7, 2020
  Dangerous Synergies

  There is growing evidence that Beijing and Moscow are learning from each other and enhancing their coordination, leading to a growing convergence in their digital influence ef...

  By Daniel Kliman, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Kristine Lee, Joshua Fitt & Carisa Nietsche

• Reports
  • April 24, 2020
  A New Arsenal for Competition

  Executive Summary The United States and China have long used coercive economic measures to advance both economic and foreign policy objectives. In recent years, however, both ...

  By Elizabeth Rosenberg, Peter Harrell & Ashley Feng

• Reports
  • April 14, 2020
  Countering Iran in the Gray Zone

  American freedom of action to strike Iranian targets in the gray zone may be greater than previously assessed, if U.S. policymakers are willing and able to replicate at least ...

  By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras, Kaleigh Thomas & Jennie Matuschak

• Reports
  • April 1, 2020
  Emerging Threats in Combating Proliferation Finance

  The international community, led by the United States, needs to demonstrate a renewed sense of urgency in response to an evolving threat environment....

  By ​Neil Bhatiya

• Reports
  • March 29, 2020
  Forging an Alliance Innovation Base

  America’s current approach to allies on technology innovation and protection remains a work in progress....

  By Daniel Kliman, Ben FitzGerald, Kristine Lee & Joshua Fitt

• Reports
  • March 19, 2020
  Combating Populism

  The strategies and tactics populist parties and leaders use also provide their own, direct threat to liberal democracy....

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Carisa Nietsche