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• Reading Old Magazines: Potential Impact of Climate Change on World Food Supply

  Several years ago I was coaching a high school debate team in Boston and my students were asked to debate increasing alternative energy incentives in the United States. As one...

• Hizballah's Tired, Derivative New Manifesto

  This weekend, I went to the local coffeeshop to read two documents which I had previously skimmed but to which I wanted to devote more attention and felt deserved a closer rea...

• Taiwan's Gamble: The Cross-Strait Rapprochement and Its Implications for U.S. Policy

  President Obama’s visit to Beijing in November 2009 highlighted several issues of mutual interest and concern for the U.S.-China relationship, yet the fact that Taiwan was not...

• CNAS Releases New Policy Brief on U.S.-Taiwan Relations

  President Obama’s recent visit to Beijing highlighted several issues of mutual interest and concern for the U.S.-China relationship, and the fact that Taiwan was not a major i...

• Events from Around Town: A Double Feature

  Michael McCarthy reports from the New America Foundation event on Minding the Gap: Where Will President Obama's Energy and Climate Policies Take Us in Four to Eight Years? Yes...

• Bucking Conventional Wisdom: The Top Five Energy-Poor Middle Eastern Countries

  The Middle East is rightly seen as a center of global energy supplies and production, hosting several of the world’s top petroleum and natural gas giants. But, as it turns out...

• This Weekend’s News: India, beyond the Party Crashers

  This Thanksgiving weekend, with newspapers light on news and heavy on ads, the biggest story was clearly the crashing of the White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister...

• 5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Kelly Sims Gallagher

  Recently, I had the chance to correspond with Kelly Sims Gallagher, an Associated Professor of Energy and Environment Policy at the Fletcher School, where she covers energy po...

• This Weekend’s News: The Changing World

  Last Friday afternoon, Sharon and I were walking back to the CNAS offices after a meeting and chatting about the indicators we see in our natural security research about the w...

• Weekly News Roundup: Climate Change Diplomacy

  Climate change diplomacy is in the air. With the Copenhagen climate summit rapidly approaching, the newswires are abuzz with governments and private groups expressing their vi...

• Pakistan Dispatch: The blame game

  A few people have been wondering about what Pakistanis make of the recent attacks that have taken place all around the north of the country. Londonstani has been travelling ar...

• Movie Review: There Will Be Blood

  There Will Be Blood, a 2007 film very loosely based on the 1927 Upton Sinclair book Oil!, is really only partly about oil. At its core, it's a story of a man who absolutely ha...

• Trading Up in the Taiwan Strait

  In the year and a half since President Ma Ying-jeou took office in Taipei, the world has witnessed an unprecedented rapprochement between China and Taiwan. The two sides have ...

• Weekly News Roundup: China’s Balance between Energy Security and Climate Cooperation

  China has been pursuing a dual policy of energy security and climate change leadership. Several news reports this week chronicle China’s attempts to move forward aggressively ...

• The Iraqi Oil and Gas Framework: Some Background

  I’ve heard a lot about Iraqi oil and the important role this resource plays in international politics, but I’ve never been clear about exactly what the Iraqi oil laws were. If...

• Reading Old Magazines: Taking Stock

  Given all our recent work and the recent press on critical minerals (or “strategic” minerals; more on the distinction later), I gave a look back this week to Peter Harben’s 19...

• Suicide attacks in Iran - The Pakistan effect?

  So a suicide bomber today killed "several top commanders in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards" and the Iranians blamed the US and the UK. So far, so predictable. But away from...

• Weekly News Roundup: Tradeoffs

  An interesting theme emerged in natural security news this week: tradeoffs. As any economist will tell you, you can’t have it all. Tradeoffs are inevitable. Energy is no diffe...

• Reading Old Magazines: The New Geography of Conflict

  Wars over timber, shrinking water supplies, and constant forward deployment of our military to protect oil and natural gas reserves, this was the vision that Michael Klare, th...

• Top National Security Reporters Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker Join CNAS as Writers in Residence

  WASHINGTON, D.C., OCTOBER 15, 2009 - The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that distinguished journalists Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, who cov...