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Heartland Security
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Executive Summary The American Century earned its name from two phenomena: the paramount global leadership of the United States and the meteoric rise of the average American’s...
By Harry Krejsa
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Getting it Righter, Faster
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Humanity is fascinated by prediction failures. The failure to predict the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has replaced the failure to predict the Japanese attack on Pear...
By Dr. Kathryn McNabb Cochran & CDR Gregory Tozzi
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The Return of Marco Polo's World
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By Robert D. Kaplan As Europe disappears, Eurasia coheres. The supercontinent is becoming one fluid, comprehensible unit of trade and conflict, as the Westphalian system of st...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Transatlantic Security Cooperation in the Middle East
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The Middle East presents a wide array of challenges that raise fundamental questions about how the transatlantic community should calibrate its approach to promote stability i...
By Ben Fishman & Erik Brattberg
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Defining Moment
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The legacy of President Barack Obama’s handling of the transatlantic relationship will be one of complexity and mixed opinion. When Obama first entered office in 2009, Europea...
By Julianne Smith & Rachel Rizzo
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The Future of U.S.-Russia Relations
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The next president will inherit a relationship with Russia fraught with more tension than at any point since the Cold War. Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine sparked fear that ...
By Julianne Smith & Adam Twardowski
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Transatlantic Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific
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When the Obama administration announced its strategic rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region in 2011, a number of European capitals initially worried that it would be followed b...
By Julianne Smith, Erik Brattberg & Rachel Rizzo
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Transatlantic Economic Statecraft
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Transatlantic cooperation on sanctions is much better today than it was 20 years ago. In 1982 and in 1996, political disputes over sanctions issues saw European countries legi...
By Simond de Galbert
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Extending American Power
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Foreword by Robert Kagan and James P. Rubin Over the past year, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) brought together an extraordinary group of scholars, practitione...
By Amb. Eric S. Edelman, James B. Steinberg, Julianne Smith, Kurt Campbell, Michèle Flournoy, Richard Fontaine, James P. Rubin, Stephen J. Hadley, Dr. Robert Kagan & Robert Zoellick
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Assured Resolve
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For the better part of the past two decades, the world’s attention has been consumed by a string of crises in the Middle East and Asia. From conventional wars in Afghanistan a...
By Julianne Smith & Jerry Hendrix
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Nine Lessons for Navigating National Security
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Few periods in modern world history have been as complicated and tumultuous as the one the next U.S. administration will confront. A long list of international problems will c...
By Michèle Flournoy
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The Labyrinth Within
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The current austere fiscal environment has brought the debate over the defense budget to the forefront of policymakers’ agendas. Technical terminology once deemed irrelevant f...
By Michelle Shevin-Coetzee
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Russian Motives: An Essay Exploring Russia’s Approach to Crimea and Eastern Ukraine
In this report, Benjamin F. Cumbo IV examines how Russia sees its territorial aggression in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine....
By Benjamin Cumbo & Robert D. Kaplan
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Enabling Decision
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Four CNAS experts - including three former National Security Council (NSC) staff - recommend changes to NSC management processes and structure to make it more agile and effect...
By Dafna Rand, Jacob Stokes, Julianne Smith & Shawn Brimley
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Defend, Defect, or Desert?
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The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) are soon to become the center of gravity for security in Afghanistan. In September 2014, U.S. and Afghan leaders signed a Bilateral ...
By Tyler Jost
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Strategy and Statecraft
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Strategy and Statecraft Program Director Julianne Smith and Bacevich Fellow Jacob Stokes analyze the current foreign policy landscape and lay out an agenda for solving the big...
By Jacob Stokes & Julianne Smith
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Building Better Generals
In Building Better Generals, the CNAS Responsible Defense (RD) team urges policymakers and military leaders to redouble their efforts to create an “adaptive and creative offic...
By Katherine Kidder, Kelley Sayler, Nora Bensahel, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Beyond Fukushima: A Joint Agenda for U.S.-Japanese Disaster Management
In Beyond Fukushima: A Joint Agenda for U.S.-Japanese Disaster Management, Richard Danzig, CNAS Chairman of the Board of Directors; Andrew M. Saidel, President and Chief Execu...
By Andrew M. Saidel, Richard Danzig & Zachary Hosford
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National Security Guide to the 2012 Presidential Election
The Center for a New American Security's National Security Guide to the 2012 Presidential Election draws on the expertise of CNAS scholars to provide readers with a fact-based...
By Colin H. Kahl, Ely Ratner, Jacob Stokes, John A. Nagl, Kristin M. Lord, Melissa Dalton, Nancy Brune, Patrick M. Cronin, Richard Fontaine, Travis Sharp, Will Rogers, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Sentries in the Sky: Using Space Technologies for Disaster Response
In Sentries in the Sky: Using Space Technologies for Disaster Response, CNAS Bacevich Fellow Will Rogers argues that U.S. policymakers can make better use of space technologie...
By Will Rogers
