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This Weekend’s News: Durban Climate Talks End with Promise for Future Progress
The New York Times reported late yesterday that the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa ended o...
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Can China and the United States Develop Stronger Military Ties Through Environmental Cooperation?
Yesterday, U.S. and Chinese officials met in Beijing for their annual military review, known as the Defense Consultative Talks. The meeting between the countries’ senior defen...
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In Remembering Pearl Harbor, Brief Thoughts about Energy and War Fighting Capability
At a briefing yesterday before the Defense Energy Security Caucus, Admiral Philip Cullom, director of the Navy’s Energy and Environmental Readiness Division, spoke to the Navy...
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This Weekend’s News: Up, Up and Away?
As international delegates kickoff the second week of annual climate change negotiations in Durban, South Africa, The New York Times reported on Sunday that global carbon emis...
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A Note About Resources and Conflict in the South China Sea and Beyond
In January, CNAS will release its study on the South China Sea, including a chapter on how natural resources affect the behavior of states in the region. There has been a lot ...
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John Stuart Mill, Dead Thinker of the Year
Fundamentally, the past year has been about grappling with the most profound question in political philosophy: how to create legitimate central authority. In one Arab country ...
By Nora Bensahel
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Pivot Toward the Pacific
As the Obama administration winds down wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is asserting US power in the Asia – Pacific region, in part as a counterweight to China’s growing inf...
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This Weekend’s News: Russia’s Energy Agenda
Special Programming Note: The UN climate negotiations begin today in Durban, South Africa. The Natural Security blog will highlight the main takeaways from this week’s confere...
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This Weekend’s News: Recapping the East Asia Summit
President Obama returned stateside on Sunday after a nine-day trip across the Asia Pacific, ending with a stop at the East Asia Summit in Bali over the weekend. The president’...
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In Brief: State Department Refocuses Efforts to Manage Energy Geopolitics
The State Department’s new Bureau of Energy Resources will open today in a reorganization of the department’s efforts to manage the geopolitical implications of energy resourc...
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A STRATFOR Conversation: George Friedman and Special Guest Robert Kaplan
There is widespread international debate on the extent to which China's naval expansions pose a threat to U.S. dominance of the world's oceans. George Friedman and author and ...
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Opinion: Find ways to keep quality midgrades
It’s been a tough decade for the U.S. Army. Like the rest of the nation, it was unprepared for the asymmetric attacks of Sept. 11. Special Forces teams, with CIA agents and Ai...
By John A. Nagl
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This Weekend’s News: For China, Pursuit of Nuclear Power Requires Some Outside Help
China is just one of the many East and Southeast Asian states that continues to pursue nuclear power in the wake of the March 2011 disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclea...
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What’s Trending in the South China Sea?
CNAS is just several weeks away from publishing a major study on the South China Sea (look for it sometime early in January 2012). But with U.S. and other East Asian leaders p...
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China's Cyber Moves Hurting Beijing
A new report by an arm of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence confirms what officials have privately lamented for several years: the United States is the target of a v...
By Richard Fontaine
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On the Agenda: Pacific Rim Nations Meet at APEC to Discuss Green Energy Technologies
The annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is underway in Honolulu. Trade representatives from the United States, China and 19 other countries will meet this w...
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This Weekend’s News: A Look at the Global Swing States, Beginning with Brazil
CNAS is ramping up a fascinating project on the global swing states. Last week, my colleagues Richard Fontaine and Dan Kliman published an op-ed in World Politics Review about...
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Climate Change in a World with 7 Billion People
Sometime on Monday the world population grew to 7 billion people, according to the United Nations. “Seven billion population is a challenge, and at the same time, an opportun...
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This Weekend’s News: Bridging the Earth Monitoring Gap One Step at a Time
Early Friday morning, NASA successfully launched the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project – or NPP – from Vandenberg Air Forc...
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A Rejoinder: Unconventional Fossil Fuels Are Not a Panacea for Geopolitical and Energy Challenges
There was a large spread in The New York Times yesterday on the coming age of unconventional oil and natural gas – that is, oil and natural gas from deepwater reserves, oil sa...