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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Working Case Study: Congress and the Iraq SurgeThe intensive campaign employed by John McCain and his allies is an important case of how members of Congress can influence executive decisions on the conduct of military oper...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Working Case Study: Congressional Influence on the Decision to Intervene in SomaliaContrary to conventional wisdom, television news did not drive U.S. policy toward Somalia; U.S. lawmakers provided the impetus and credibility for coverage....
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Working Case Study: Congress’s Oversight of the Tongo Tongo, Niger, AmbushThere was no question that U.S. forces under attack should be in a position to defend themselves. But the larger question was what sort of mission had placed them in this circ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Sanctions by the Numbers: Spotlight on Iran
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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
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Technology & National Security
The Razor’s Edge: Liberalizing the Digital Surveillance EcosystemDemocracies 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
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Toward a More Proliferated World?
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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
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National Security Human Capital Program
United Kingdom Veteran LandscapeExecutive 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
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Reengaging Iran
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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
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Congress’s Hidden StrengthsIntroduction 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
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Technology & National Security
Open FutureExecutive 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
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Intelligence Transparency and Foreign Threats to ElectionsThe threat of malign foreign interference in the campaign season and election system looms....
By Carrie Cordero
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Restoring Strategic Competence
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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
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Investing in Great-Power Competition
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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
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Sanctions by the Numbers: The Geographic Distribution of U.S. Sanctions
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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
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National Security Human Capital Program
Called to LeadAuthors 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
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National Security Human Capital Program
Comparing VA and Non-VA Medical CentersIntroduction 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
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Reforming the Department of Homeland Security Through Enhanced Oversight & AccountabilityIn a new report, Carrie Cordero outlines the pressures placed on DHS's immigration enforcement, border security, and law enforcement components....
By Carrie Cordero
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Dangerous SynergiesThere 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
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A New Arsenal for Competition
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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
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Countering Iran in the Gray Zone
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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
