Reports
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The Financing of WMD Proliferation (JCE TEST)
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The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is a critical threat facing the international community. Numerous United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) place b...
By Jonathan Brewer
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Power Play
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The United States and China are in a competition to shape the course of the 21st century. At stake is whether the prevailing international order that has backstopped peace, pr...
By Daniel Kliman & Abigail Grace
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A Precarious Accord
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Executive Summary Throughout 2017, diplomacy remained almost dormant as North Korea blazed through a record set of nuclear-related activities and demonstrated its ability to l...
By Patrick Cronin & Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
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Under Pressure
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Executive Summary As the United States and China enter a new period of explicit strategic competition, the tools of that competition will reach far beyond aircraft carriers an...
By Harry Krejsa
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No Safe Harbor
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Introduction China is challenging America’s and Japan’s long-standing ability to uphold a peaceful order in the Asia-Pacific region. This is particularly true in the East and ...
By Patrick M. Cronin, Daniel Kliman & Harry Krejsa
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Taming Sea Dragons
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Executive Summary In his 2010 book, titled Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power, Robert Kaplan asserted that the Indian Ocean “is at the heart of the wor...
By Sean Liedman
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First Strike: China's Missile Threat to U.S. Bases in Asia
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You may have heard that China’s military has developed a “carrier-killer” ballistic missile to threaten one of America’s premier power-projection tools, its unmatched fleet of...
By CDR Thomas Shugart, USN
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Art of the Possible
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Introduction Pakistan is not a front-burner issue for the administration of President Donald Trump, but it remains a major contributor to the security challenges facing the Un...
By Stephen Tankel
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Networking Asian Security
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Executive Summary American security strategy in the Asia-Pacific has for decades been built on a “hub and spokes” model of bilateral, exclusive alliance relationships. Japan, ...
By Richard Fontaine, Patrick M. Cronin, Mira Rapp-Hooper & Harry Krejsa
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Beyond the San Hai
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The United States has enjoyed largely uncontested naval supremacy across the blue waters, or open oceans, for decades. The rapid emergence of an increasingly global People’s L...
By Patrick M. Cronin, Mira Rapp-Hooper, Harry Krejsa, Alexander Sullivan & Rush Doshi
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Averting Disengagement
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It will take months for the new U.S. administration to craft a coherent strategy for the Asia-Pacific region. But the United States can take numerous steps to avert disengagem...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Anthony Cho
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Phishing in Troubled Waters
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Because China’s two chief targets of strategic attention are the United States and Taiwan, they are understandably also Beijing’s chief targets of cyberattack and espionage. B...
By Harry Krejsa & Hannah Suh
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China’s Growing Maritime Role in the South and East China Seas
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Yusuke Saito, Lieutenant Commander, Surface Warfare Officer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, uses a contemporary understanding of China’s maritime strategy to project...
By LCDR Yusuke Saito, JMSDF
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China’s Blue Water Navy Strategy and its Implications
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Yoji Koda, V Adm. (Ret) of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and former Commander in Chief of the Self-Defense Force, argues that the vulnerability of key maritime choke ...
By Vice Admiral Yoji Koda
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China as a Middle East Power
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In this working paper, Kuni Miyake, President of the Foreign Policy Institute think-tank in Tokyo, examines the strategic implications for Japan of China’s increasing influenc...
By Kuni Miyake
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Congress and Asia Strategy in the Trump Administration
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As the Trump administration prepares to take office, it does so with more policy uncertainty than any incoming government in memory. On the campaign trail, the president-elect...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper & Harry Krejsa
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Breakthrough on the Peninsula
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This volume is a first attempt to address how America’s Third Offset Strategy could affect security on the Korean Peninsula. The Third Offset is in essence a call for the Unit...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Counterbalance: Red Teaming the Rebalance in the Asia-Pacific
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Since the Pivot to Asia was announced on November 17, 2011, President Barack Obama has sought to refocus American diplomatic, economic, and military attention to the Asia-Paci...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper, Patrick M. Cronin, Harry Krejsa & Hannah Suh
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Power and Order in the South China Sea
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Despite numerous calls for a more cooperative relationship, U.S.-China ties appear to be on an increasingly competitive trajectory.1 Nowhere has this seemed more apparent than...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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An Information Based Strategy to Reduce North Korea’s Increasing Threat
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The United States’ current approach to North Korea does not fundamentally resolve the risks of its belligerent behavior nor halt the development of its nuclear weapons and bal...
By Commander Fredrick Vincenzo, USN
