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Trump's smart sanctions can lead Venezuela back to democracy
Read the full op-ed in The Hill....
By Peter Harrell
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CommentaryHow Trump Can Stop the Four Famines
In his first six months as President, Donald Trump has used his platforms to decry and cajole anything or anyone that stands in the way of his campaign promises -- or that he ...
By Richard Fontaine
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America's Darwinian Nationalism
THE UNITED STATES, Russia and China are all losing, or have lost, their ideological and spiritual purpose. This is clear in the case of the Russian and Chinese regimes, which ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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VideoCNAS 2017: The Return of Marco Polo’s World and the U.S. Military Response
As Europe disappears, Eurasia coheres. The supercontinent is becoming one fluid, comprehensible unit of trade and conflict as the Westphalian system of states weakens and olde...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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VideoCNAS 2017: Bombshell Podcast Live Recording: National Security in a Distracted World
Bombshell, a new national security podcast, will host a live show exploring the media’s communication of game-changing events and national security challenges in an era of sho...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Wanted: A Trump Team Foreign-Policy Plan with Democratic Values
National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn offered a defense of President Trump’s “America First” foreign policy in a W...
By Kate Bateman
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America must continue the fight against kleptocracy around the globe
Massive protests in Venezuela, Tunisia, Brazil, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic over the last few weeks have highlighted political graft around the globe, and the ensuing ...
By Kate Bateman
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Getting the Pentagon’s Next National Defense Strategy Right
A small Pentagon team has started working on the next National Defense Strategy that, if properly scoped and staffed, will be an important tool for Secretary of Defense Jim Ma...
By Shawn Brimley
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Trump's First Presidential Trip Abroad: What Could Go Wrong?
On my first presidential overseas trip I got stranded outside a Russian checkpoint, frantically texting sleeping colleagues about whether I could allow security guards to scan...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Trump’s decision to fire Comey
In his wildest dreams, Russian leader (and former Soviet intelligence officer) Vladimir Putin could have never imagined the extent of his success during President Donald Trump...
By Phillip Carter
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Neal Urwitz for Politico
White House press secretary Sean Spicer has one of the hardest jobs in Washington. He’s almost constantly under fire from an increasingly unsympathetic public and the frustrat...
By Neal Urwitz
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The Role of the Commander-in-Chief
I really just see the bigness of it all, but also the responsibility. And the human responsibility. You know, the human life that’s involved in some of the decisions.” — Presi...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Janine Davidson
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Here’s How Trump’s ‘Axis of Adults’ Weathered the First 100 Days
Amongst the chaos and the tweets, some of the more reassuring steps of the first 100 days of the Donald Trump presidency were the appointments of Secretary of Defense James Ma...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Tragic Sensibility
The great classicist Edith Hamilton, writing in 1930, explained that tragedy is the beauty of intolerable truths, and that real tragedy is not the triumph of evil over good bu...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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America's Security in Trump's First 100 Days
If the only measure of national security success during a president’s first 100 days were avoiding catastrophe, then, OK, President Trump has succeeded. No attacks on the U.S....
By Phillip Carter
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The Importance of the Civil Service
In a signature theme of its first 100 days, the Trump administration, encouraged by conservative media outlets, has launched an assault on civil servants the likes of which sh...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Whitney Kassel
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PodcastTrump's First 100 Days and the State of National Security
As President Trump closes in on his first 100 days, CNAS President Richard Fontaine and Executive Vice President Shawn Brimley provide recommendations for what the administrat...
By Richard Fontaine, Shawn Brimley & Neal Urwitz
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It's not just Europe: The DoD has a lot riding on the French elections, too
It is not just Europe and the European Union that have something at stake in the outcome of the French elections. One of French President François Hollande’s legacies is the c...
By Jacqueline Ramos & Jim Townsend
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Deciphering the French Election Results and Trump’s 100 Days
On this week’s first episode of The E.R., David Rothkopf, Kori Schake, Susan Hennessey, and Julie Smith discuss the latest in foreign-policy headlines. With the...
By Julianne Smith
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The President Doesn’t Need a Trump Doctrine
Foreign policy doctrine season has come to the nation’s capital. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s forcible response to Bashar Assad’s gas attack in Syria, observers are...
By Richard Fontaine