Reports

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• 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
  • 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

• Reports
  • October 20, 2020
  Charting a Transatlantic Course to Address China

  Working together to collectively strengthen the United States’ and Europe’s ability to compete with China provides an opportunity for a reinvigorated partnership....

  By Julianne Smith, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Carisa Nietsche & Ellison Laskowski

• 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
  • 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

• Reports
  • November 4, 2019
  Not Enough Maritime Capability

  Lt. Col. Colin Smith (USMC) and Jim Townsend outline the United States’ projected shortfalls in sealift capacity needed to reinforce Europe in a time of crisis....

  By LtCol Colin Smith & Jim Townsend

• Reports
  • June 18, 2018
  More Than Burden Sharing

  Executive Summary In early-July, NATO will host the first full-length summit at its new headquarters in Brussels. It will also be the first NATO summit for President Donald Tr...

  By Mark Newton, Rachel Rizzo, Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend

• Reports
  • March 30, 2018
  NATO's 2018 Summit

  On July 11–12 2018, NATO’s 29 members will convene at NATO Headquarters in Brussels for the first full-length summit since Warsaw in 2016. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg h...

  By Julianne Smith, Jim Townsend & Rachel Rizzo

• Reports
  • May 2, 2017
  Forgotten Waters

  Foreword By Robert D. Kaplan Geography still rules, despite the conceits of the jet age and the information age. Geography is where any discussion of the strategic environment...

  By Julianne Smith & Jerry Hendrix

• Reports
  • March 9, 2017
  Transatlantic Security Cooperation in the Middle East

  The Middle East presents a wide array of challenges that raise fundamental questions about how the transatlantic community should calibrate its approach to promote stability i...

  By Ben Fishman & Erik Brattberg

• Reports
  • February 16, 2017
  Defining Moment

  The legacy of President Barack Obama’s handling of the transatlantic relationship will be one of complexity and mixed opinion. When Obama first entered office in 2009, Europea...

  By Julianne Smith & Rachel Rizzo

• Reports
  • January 11, 2017
  The Future of U.S.-Russia Relations

  The next president will inherit a relationship with Russia fraught with more tension than at any point since the Cold War. Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine sparked fear that ...

  By Julianne Smith & Adam Twardowski

• Reports
  • October 24, 2016
  Transatlantic Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific

  When the Obama administration announced its strategic rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region in 2011, a number of European capitals initially worried that it would be followed b...

  By Julianne Smith, Erik Brattberg & Rachel Rizzo

• Reports
  • June 21, 2016
  Transatlantic Economic Statecraft

  Transatlantic cooperation on sanctions is much better today than it was 20 years ago. In 1982 and in 1996, political disputes over sanctions issues saw European countries legi...

  By Simond de Galbert

• Reports
  • April 7, 2016
  Assured Resolve

  For the better part of the past two decades, the world’s attention has been consumed by a string of crises in the Middle East and Asia. From conventional wars in Afghanistan a...

  By Julianne Smith & Jerry Hendrix

• • Reports
  • September 16, 2015
  Lessons from Russia and the Future of Sanctions

  Peter Harrell, an Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Energy, Economics, and Security Program, examines what led U.S. policymakers to develo...

  By Peter Harrell

• • Reports
  • July 15, 2015
  Russian Motives: An Essay Exploring Russia’s Approach to Crimea and Eastern Ukraine

  In this report, Benjamin F. Cumbo IV examines how Russia sees its territorial aggression in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine....

  By Benjamin Cumbo & Robert D. Kaplan

• Reports
  • September 2, 2014
  Charting the Course

  A new policy brief by CNAS' Strategy and Statecraft Program timed in conjunction with the NATO Summit September 4-5, makes recommendations on key issues like NATO’s response t...

  By Jacob Stokes, Julianne Smith, Nora Bensahel, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)