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Robert D. Kaplan Says America Has to Support Free Trade
Video
Robert D. Kaplan, senior fellow at Center for A New American Security, discusses his new book and the importance of free trade for the U.S. He speaks with Tom Keene and Franci...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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American Strategy for a New International Order
Podcast
As part of the Zak Grand Strategy lecture series, CNAS welcomes Rebecca Friedman Lissner of Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and Mira Rapp-Hooper of the Pau...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Rebecca Friedman Lissner & Mira Rapp-Hooper
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John Bolton thinks he can be tough. Can he also be fair?
Commentary
National Security Council staff usually stumble onto White House grounds every morning around 7, before most of the Beltway has had its first cup of coffee. The gate closing b...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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How Russia and China Could Come Unhinged
Commentary
We have moved from a world of ideological struggles in the 20th century to a world of geopolitical struggles in the 21st—or so goes the conventional wisdom. But technology is ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Robert Kaplan: Grand Strategy and the Return of Marco Polo's World
Commentary
The following is a transcript of Robert D. Kaplan's speech at the Michael J. Zak Grand Strategy Lecture on March 7th, 2018. KAPLAN: It is a great privilege and honor for me to...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Grand Strategy
Podcast
As part of our Michael J. Zak Grand Strategy Lecture series, Senior Fellow Loren DeJonge Schulman hosts four experts to discuss some fundamentals of grand strategy that are to...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Kelly Magsamen, Julianne Smith & Emma Ashford
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How Mike Pompeo Could Save the State Department
Commentary
Former congressman and CIA Director Mike Pompeo has a bio that sparkles even in Washington: top of his class at West Point, five years of Army service, Harvard Law, success in...
By Phillip Carter
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A Requiem for Rex’s Redesign
Commentary
President Trump’s decision to inform Rex Tillerson of his firing via tweet was a fitting end to what has been a historically weak and ineffective tenure as secretary of state....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Trap of Empire and Authoritarianism
Commentary
For thousands of years the tragedy of politics has been that empire affords the answer to chaos. Imperialism, as the Oxford historian John Darwin says, “has been the default m...
By Robert Kaplan
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Defending America Means Defending Democracy
Commentary
In its new strategy documents, the Trump administration identifies America’s central security challenge as the re-emergence of great power competition. China and Russia seek t...
By Richard Fontaine
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The History and Future of Heartland Security
Podcast
In his new report, Heartland Security, Bacevich Fellow, Harry Krejsa, argues foreign policy pays off for the middle class when domestic policy *makes* it pay off -- and nation...
By Harry Krejsa & Rachel Rizzo
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Victoria Nuland on "Face the Nation": Future of U.S. National Security
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After one year in office, the Trump administration faces a looming threat posed by the North Korean and Iranian regimes, an ongoing fight to defeat ISIS caliphate an...
By Victoria Nuland
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CNAS Responds: State of the Union 2018
Commentary
On January 30, 2018, President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address. The speech covered a wide array of accomplishments and challenges that the United States e...
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Donald Trump's Davos journey from statesman to salesman
Commentary
The notion of Donald Trump descending on the global economic elite at Davos stirred tremendous interest, not least across the Indo-Pacific. The WTO-sceptical, TPP-withdrawing,...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump's disastrous foreign policy in Asia is the worst since Vietnam
Commentary
The withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may have been the greatest self-inflicted American foreign policy blunder in Asia since the Vietnam War. Asia is all ab...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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New and Old Empires: Robert Kaplan presents at the World Economic Forum
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Geography is not destiny, but it may be the best starting point for understanding world politics. In a world of shifting alliances and divides, how are geography and the histo...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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America's Economic Future Hinges on Its Partnership with Asia
Commentary
Nearly a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration has started to craft a strategic narrative for its approach to Asia. This is atypical: it took Barack Obama ne...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Kliman
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To Strengthen Trump’s National Security Approach, Promote Human Rights
Commentary
In a series of tweets on New Year’s Eve, President Donald Trump expressed strong support for Iranians protesting against their autocratic regime. He added that the United Stat...
By Richard Fontaine & John Bellinger
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The Oil and Gas Sector Is Changing — and So Is Geopolitics
Commentary
WINDFALLHow the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens American PowerBy Meghan L. O’Sullivan479 pp. Simon & Schuster. $29. Geopolitics is power played...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Trump Should Mind the Gaps in His National Security Strategy
Commentary
President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy has been published and the early returns are in. Perhaps as with all things Trumpian, reactions are strongly-held and all o...
By Richard Fontaine
