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CommentaryThe United States Should Rally Behind European Strategic Autonomy
It was May 2017 and it was the comment heard around the world. In the wake of a disastrous G7 Summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a campaign stop at a packed beer ten...
By Rachel Rizzo
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CommentaryHow to tell if North Korea is serious about denuclearization
Since the Singapore summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in June, Pyongyang has made gestures and statements suggesting that it will cu...
By Duyeon Kim
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CommentaryStrategic competition beyond confrontation with China
The Trump administration is undertaking a historic reorientation of U.S. policy towards China. The 2018 National Defense Strategy highlighted the “reemergence of long-term, st...
By Elsa B. Kania
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CommentaryTime for a 21st-century PH-US alliance
Of all the alliances in the Asia-Pacific today, there is none more underappreciated than that of the Philippines and the United States. And there is no line that better captur...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Heydarian
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CommentaryHas the Transatlantic Alliance Been Irreparably Damaged?
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces dealing with the transatlantic relationship. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of e...
By Jim Townsend, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Richard Fontaine & Julianne Smith
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CommentaryExiting the Russia nuclear treaty impacts military strategy in Asia
President Trump recently announced that the United States will soon exit the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia. This will open significant options for the U...
By Eric Sayers & Abraham M. Denmark
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CommentaryJamal Khashoggi’s Murder Hurt American Interests, Not Just American Values
Most observers have seen the murder of Jamal Khashoggi as the latest example of an age-old tension in U.S. foreign policy: the pursuit of national interests versus the defense...
By Richard Fontaine
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CommentaryThe INF Treaty hamstrings the U.S. Trump is right to leave it.
The Trump administration has announced that it plans to withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987. This treaty banned the United States and Russ...
By Elbridge Colby
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CommentaryWhy the EU’s Quest for ‘Dollar Autonomy’ Is a Long Shot—for Now
Just weeks before the Trump administration reimposes sanctions against Iran in November, a growing gulf has emerged between the United States and Europe. Denouncing Washington...
By Neil Bhatiya
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CommentaryMerging the U.S. Consulate and Embassy in Jerusalem Is a Mistake
While the world was rightly focused on the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, an entirely different consulate—that of the United Stat...
By Hady Amr & Ilan Goldenberg
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CommentaryThe Anarchy That Came
What I said was provocative, or at least deemed to be, by complacent champions of globalization. Yet evolution is inexorable. Technology in particular is not so much defeating...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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CommentaryHow to Defend Against Foreign Influence Campaigns: Lessons from Counter-Terrorism
Two weeks ago, a grand jury in Pennsylvania indicted seven Russian intelligence officers for state-sponsored hacking and influence operations. Both U.S. Attorney General Jeff ...
By Kara Frederick
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CommentaryTrump Should Calm Tensions With Europe Over Iran Sanctions
The Trump administration and the European Union are coming perilously close to a major escalation in their already substantial diplomatic and economic rift over Iran. European...
By Peter Harrell
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CommentaryIf You Want Peace, Prepare for Nuclear War
In a little under three decades, nuclear weapons have gone from center stage to a sideshow in U.S. defense strategy. Since the 1990s, the United States has drastically reduced...
By Elbridge Colby
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CommentaryIdaho is not immune to Russian meddling and disinformation
On Jan. 6, 2017, the United States intelligence community released a report documenting Russia’s interference in our elections. One of us, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, was a senior ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Rachel Rizzo
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CommentaryAngela Merkel Could Save Europe. Why Won’t She?
Campaigning in the spring of 2017, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany declared at a packed beer hall in Bavaria that it was time for Europe to “take its destiny into its own ...
By Julianne Smith
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CommentaryFor Japan, a Winning Formula is Cyber Defense and Innovation Offense
The already great and increasing importance of the cyber domain in strategic competition makes the need for Japan to advance its cyber-security and technology entrepreneurship...
By Krista Auchenbach & Daniel Kliman
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CommentaryThe EU Can’t Avoid U.S. Sanctions on Iran
Late last month, the European Union and China announced that they intended to set up a special global payments system to allow companies to continue to trade with Iran despite...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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CommentaryRevealing Intelligence on Jamal Khashoggi
Washington Post Global Opinions columnist Jamal Khashoggi has been missing since entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 2. As of this writing, Turkis...
By Carrie Cordero
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CommentaryHow to Tell When North Korea Starts to Denuclearize
On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returned from what he described as “productive” conversations with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un. Although details are still emer...
By Eric Brewer & Jung H. Pak