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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Stress-Testing State PowerIntroduction As the end of the first quarter of the 21st century approaches, the United States’ unique federalist system of government is increasingly relevant as it relates t...
By Carrie Cordero
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Leading the Free WorldThe United States has led the free world for eight decades, helping to usher in an era of unprecedented human flourishing. For much of that period, democracies expanded in num...
By Richard Fontaine, Shanthi Kalathil, Tod Lindberg, Tom Malinowski, Sarah Margon, Gibbs McKinley, Derek Mitchell, Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Corban Teague & Daniel Twining
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National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Protecting the Protectors: Preventing and Mitigating Domestic Violent Extremism in the Military, Veteran, and Law Enforcement CommunitiesIn recent years, the involvement of currently serving military members and law enforcement officers, as well as veterans of those two professions, in domestic violent extremis...
By Carrie Cordero, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Arona Baigal & Josh Campbell
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Beyond the L.A. Declaration on Migration and DevelopmentOver the last decade, the United States and other countries in the Western Hemisphere have encountered an evolving set of irregular migration events. During these events, a la...
By Cristobal Ramón
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
The Coast Guard: “Always Ready,” Except for ChangeThe Coast Guard motto, “Semper Paratus,” translates to “Always Ready.” While this is true in the Coast Guard’s everyday emergency response and operations, which provide great ...
By James Valentine
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
From Mardi Gras to the Philippines: A Review of DHS Homeland Security InvestigationsAs it approaches 20 years since its creation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is due for substantial updates in order to improve its ability to adapt to current and ...
By Carrie Cordero & Katie Galgano
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Reassessing Homeland Security IntelligenceThe discipline of intelligence has been a central element of the homeland security enterprise over the past two decades since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The ...
By Christian Beckner
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
The Department of Homeland Security: Priorities for ReformThere 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
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
War Powers: What Are They Good For?Congressional aspirations to equal partnership in the conduct of American conflicts have long gone unsatisfied....
By Richard Fontaine, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Stephen Tankel
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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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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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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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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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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Rebooting Congressional Cybersecurity OversightThe current “patchwork” legal framework is ill suited to address cybersecurity questions either for legislative oversight or effective policymaking....
By Carrie Cordero & David Thaw
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Rising to the China ChallengeThe United States and China are locked in strategic competition over the future of the Indo-Pacific—the most populous, dynamic, and consequential region in the world....
By Ely Ratner, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Rush Doshi, Chris Dougherty, Richard Fontaine, Peter Harrell, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Eric Sayers, Daleep Singh, Paul Scharre, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya, Ashley Feng, Joshua Fitt, Megan Lamberth, Kristine Lee & Ainikki Riikonen
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Enhancing Congressional Intelligence Committee EffectivenessIn a new working paper, Carrie Cordero provides a fresh assessment regarding whether the intelligence committees in Congress need significant structural reforms, assesses whic...
By Carrie Cordero
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
A Woman? No Way!Who would have known that my commissioning in the U.S. Army would lead me to such an unthinkable assignment? I arrived in the Middle East as a country engagement officer. Alth...
By Asha Castleberry
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National Security Human Capital Program / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
The (Mostly) Good News on Women in CombatThree years ago this month, 19 women from across the Army made history by reporting to Fort Benning, Georgia, to become the first women to attend U.S. Army Ranger School. As t...
By Andrew Swick & Emma Moore
