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Shaping the Fourth Offset
Commentary
In pursuit of a Fourth Offset, export regulations may be radically reimagined to alter U.S. industry culture and commercial strategies....
By Theodore W. Kassinger
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Export Controls Are Bigger and Broader. But Are We Safer?
Commentary
U.S. leaders must consider how export controls can be used effectively, and the circumstances in which export controls may be ill-suited to a policy objective....
By Peter Harrell
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Trade Controls are a Limited Tool of Foreign Policy
Commentary
If the goal is to ensure our adversaries acquire nothing that they need, we are doomed to failure....
By William A. Reinsch
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On Export Controls, the United States Must Focus on Effectiveness
Commentary
Export controls will be more effective if they are narrowly tailored to specific national security objectives....
By Peter Lichtenbaum
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For Effective Controls, Build Coalitions
Commentary
As strategic concerns about China and its industrial policy become more widespread, opportunities to build coalitions are expanding....
By Martin Chorzempa
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Export Controls Will Become More Effective When They Include Plurilateral Controls
Commentary
Use of export controls to accomplish purely economic or trade policy objectives compromises the effectiveness of both the export control and the international trade systems....
By Kevin Wolf
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How Biden Could Use Trump’s Trade War Thumbscrews to Fight Climate Change
Commentary
Global climate change is undeniably a crisis, arguably the single greatest national security challenge the United States faces, and certainly a vastly greater threat than many...
By Peter Harrell
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A Council of Democracies Can Save Multilateralism
Commentary
The world desperately needs a new institution that is both global in reach and unified in vision....
By Edward Fishman & Siddharth Mohandas
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Sharper: Global Coronavirus Response
Commentary
Analysis from CNAS experts on the most critical challenges in U.S. foreign policy....
By Chris Estep & Cole Stevens
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How U.S. Sanctions Depend on the Federal Reserve
Commentary
Foreign policy professionals will have to understand what the Federal Reserve is doing and how it affects U.S. national security....
By Edoardo Saravalle
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How Sanctions Fail US Policymakers
Podcast
Eddie Fishman, who worked in Obama's State Department's Policy Planning Staff, joins to discuss his recent articles on sanctions and the world order. Listen to the full conve...
By Edward Fishman
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How Iran’s Oil Infrastructure Gambit Could Imperil the Strait of Hormuz
Commentary
A series of mysterious and seemingly random explosions continue to erupt across various parts of Iran this month, hitting sensitive military sites, as well as populated reside...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers & Ariane Tabatabai
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Closing the Deal: National Security and Investment Scrutiny
Video
The United States and other major economies are enhancing investment screening and export controls in areas sensitive to national security....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg, Peter Harrell, Carrie Cordero, David Cohen, Elbridge Colby, Wally Adeyemo, Deborah Lehr, Aimen Mir & Uzra Zeya
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The U.S.-China confrontation is not another Cold War. It’s something new.
Commentary
With U.S.-China relations in free fall, the Trump administration’s chief arms control negotiator recently proclaimed that "we know how to win these races and we know how to sp...
By Richard Fontaine & Ely Ratner
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The Pitch: A Competition of New Ideas
Video
On June 17, 2020, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted its premier event to elevate emerging and diverse voices in national security. Sixteen applicants made t...
By Richard Fontaine, Michèle Flournoy, Michael J. Zak, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Shai Korman, Carrie Cordero, Kristine Lee, David Zikusoka & Cole Stevens
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Richard Fontaine and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian Discuss America and the Post-Pandemic World
Video
At the launch of the CNAS 2020 National Security Conference, CNAS CEO Richard Fontaine and Axios China Reporter Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian discussed challenges and opportunities...
By Richard Fontaine & Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
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An Overly Aggressive U.S. Approach to Hong Kong Risks Playing Into China’s Hands
Commentary
While China’s violations of the agreed-upon status quo regarding civil liberties and political autonomy in Hong Kong are worthy of a robust U.S. response, the administration s...
By Neil Bhatiya & Eric Lorber
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Hearing on the Crisis in Hong Kong: A Review of U.S. Policy Tools
Congressional Testimony
Submitted Written Testimony Chairman Crapo, Ranking Member Brown, Honorable Members of the Committee— It is an honor to be asked to testify to you today on an issue of critica...
By Peter Harrell
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How to Fix America’s Failing Sanctions Policy
In his landmark 1921 book “The Command of the Air,” the Italian military theorist Giulio Douhet argued that the advent of airpower would dramatically alter the nature of war. ...
By Edward Fishman
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Virtual Roundtable: How is covid-19 changing European economic sovereignty?
Podcast
What does the corona crisis mean for economic coercion? How does it amplify some of the problems stemming from punitive economic measures Europeans have worried about? Especia...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
