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The Case for U.S. Arms Sales to Vietnam
When Beijing built a deep-sea drilling platform squarely in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone earlier this summer, it once again flouted widely accepted rules and sought to ex...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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Rebuilding Bipartisan Consensus on National Security
Politics, despite the saying, has never really stopped at the water’s edge. But these days, it seems, policymakers cannot even get to the beach before the sniping begins. The ...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Asians Hedge Against China
Beijing's announcement of a new "air defense identification zone" that overlaps with existing Japanese and Korean airspace sent reverberations across the Indo-Pacific region. ...
By Ely Ratner, Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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From Romance to Realism in U.S.-India Ties
Blink and you might have missed the U.S.-India summit earlier this month. Sitting in the Oval Office, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh watched as U.S. President Barack Oba...
By Richard Fontaine
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Singh and Obama must look ahead
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit toWashington comes at a time of doubt. Someanalysts point to India’s stalled economic reforms and slowing growth and question the country...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS Commentaries: The Way Forward in Syria
Nine experts at the Center for a New American Security offer analysis and commentary on the range of issues relating to the U.S. response to the alleged use of chemical weapon...
By Gordon Miller, Katherine Kidder, Nora Bensahel, Patrick M. Cronin, Phillip Carter, Richard Fontaine, Richard Williamson & David W. Barno, USA (Ret.)
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The President Is Right to Intervene, But Then What?
President Obama is right to take action in response to the Asad regime’s chemical attack on Syrian civilians. Yet in the absence of a strategy that aims at ending the broader ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Despite Drift in Ties, U.S. and India Share Strategic Logic
Joe Biden’s recent visit to New Delhi and Mumbai—the first trip by an American vice president to India in 30 years—occasioned no shortage of handwringing over the state of the...
By Richard Fontaine
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An Asian Power Web Emerges
When President Obama met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in California last week, it is doubtful that either leader focused on the growing ties among countries like Singapo...
By Ely Ratner, Patrick M. Cronin & Richard Fontaine
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Asia's Pivotal Power
A resurgent Asian nation has just elevated hawkish nationalists to the pinnacle of power. Its maritime conflicts with neighbors raise the risk of military confrontation along ...
By Richard Fontaine
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American Decline and the Liberal Order
The national conversation about America’s potential “decline,” however defined, tends to rely on an understanding in which power is conceptualized in simple metrics rather tha...
By Richard Fontaine
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Global Swing States and European Strategy
A new European Global Strategy must account for one of the most important geopolitical trends of the early 21st century: the growing influence of emerging market democracies i...
By Daniel Kliman & Richard Fontaine
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Don’t give up on India
Throwing 10 percent of the world’s population into darkness is not a good way to advertise one’s “great power” credentials. India’s late-summer power outage, political dysfunc...
By Richard Fontaine
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Don't give up on India
Throwing 10 percent of the world’s population into darkness is not a good way to advertise one’s “great power” credentials. India’s late-summer power outage, political dysfunc...
By Richard Fontaine
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5 big questions for U.S. strategy
Although domestic issues may continue to dominate the presidential campaign, eventually the candidates will be called upon to give a comprehensive view of U.S. national securi...
By Kristin M. Lord & Richard Fontaine
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At G20 summit, West must partner with rising democracies in new global order
The G20 summit that begins today in Los Cabos, Mexico, brings together a disparate collection of nations. There are the United States and its longtime democratic allies in Eur...
By Richard Fontaine
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Should Foreign Policy be Politicized?
It's that time of the election again. As the primaries wind down and the general election looms, foreign policy becomes ever more politicized, and particular events - such as ...
By Richard Fontaine
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To Rethink the State Department, Look to Business
Demands on the State Department may be growing but, if last week’s congressional hearings are any indication, the State Department’s coffers will not be. Even longtime champio...
By Kristin M. Lord & Richard Fontaine
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Twitter, Democracy, and Internet Freedom
Twitter has taken fire in recent days from activists and bloggers who fear that the company’s new censorship policies will muffle online freedom. News reports recall the ways ...
By Richard Fontaine
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U.S. Must Ensure Relations with India don’t Fracture over Iran
Iran is the crisis of the hour in Washington, and for the first time in recent memory talk now routinely turns to military action. In an effort to forestall Tehran’s pursuit o...
By Richard Fontaine