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Time to govern
The midterm election handed control of Congress to the party whose traditional strength is national security. In developing its foreign policy agenda, the incoming Republican ...
By Elbridge Colby & Richard Fontaine
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Realism Returns
The most remarkable aspect of Senator Rand Paul’s “conservative realism” speech on October 23 in New York was that it was seen as remarkable at all. For the fact is that, desp...
By Elbridge Colby
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A Republican Congress Is Good News for Asia
Having attended summits in China and Burma, President Barack Obama heads to Australia this weekend for the G-20 summit, all while carrying the albatross of his party’s elector...
By Elbridge Colby & Richard Fontaine
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Sea-based nuclear-weapons: Military needs and political consequences
How will the deployment of ballistic missile submarines by China and India affect the Indo-Pacific strategic landscape? What effect will these deployments have on stability in...
By Elbridge Colby
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Our Unrealist President
Even before his presidency began, Barack Obama articulated a foreign-policy course markedly different from that of his immediate predecessors. Not only did he present himself ...
By Elbridge Colby
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Have We Hit Peak America?
In other words, a greater number of Americans are worried about diminishing U.S. influence today than in the face of feared Soviet technological superiority in the late 1950s,...
By Elbridge Colby