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Happy Minerals Report Release Day!
Today we officially release CNAS's long-in-the-works minerals report. If you saw our website or my guest-authored piece in Danger Room yesterday, you may have seen that it is ...
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The Minerals Bibliography You've All Been Waiting For
As promised yesterday, I'm posting here a bibliography for minerals. This includes many articles and books I've read in researching the topic for the minerals report we'll be ...
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This Weekend’s News: Eye on ASEAN
Southeast Asian leaders concluded the 18th Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit this weekend. Coverage of the summit seemed to focus mostly on the protracted...
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Summer Reading List: Foreign Policy’s “Food Issue”
When the articles in the new Foreign Policy “Food Issue” first hit my RSS feed about a week back, I snidely Tweeted: "Doesn't look like FP's food issue will stack up to Wired'...
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This Weekend's News:
This weekend's natural security news consisted of just a few pieces barely worth mentioning. The big news is obvious, I'm sure most of you were up much of the night watching t...
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"Night Dragon" Example of Cyber Attacks
For my final note to Smart Grid Cyber Security Week, I wanted to draw your attention to "Night Dragon," a cyber attack on energy companies which a pal brought to my attention ...
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Challenges for Obama's New National Security Team are Huge
President Barack Obama's national security shake-up will pit some of America's most able practitioners against some of the nation's most intractable challenges. The forceful, ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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This Weekend’s News: Get Thinking about Global Trends
Many families gathered around the dinner table this weekend to celebrate the holidays. And as they did, those preparing the food may have noticed a higher grocery bill (and th...
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In Defense of Cluster Munitions, Part II
Richard K. Betts, writing in the National Interest: Ikenberry faults Bush for rejecting the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the “Germ Weapons Ban” (Ikenberry must mean...
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This Weekend's News: Someone Should Tell The Donald About DOD's Energy Programs
I have to admit that I don’t tend to watch Sunday morning news shows, but Will shot me an email Sunday morning noting a fabulous CNN interview with potential candidate (or not...
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As Debt Grows, So Does U.S. Exposure to Attack
On Wednesday, President Obama grabbed onto one of the most highly charged issues in American politics: deficit reduction. The president’s speech offered a sensible way forward...
By Travis Sharp
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China’s Current and Emerging Foreign Policy Priorities
CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Richard Weitz testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on the current status of Sino-Russian relations....
By Richard Weitz
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Book Review: Treasures of the Earth by Saleem Ali
Saleem Ali’s 2009 book, Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, arrived at my desk at just the right time last fall. I’ve been working on a new report on...
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Events From Around Town: A Rare Earth Crisis, or No Rare Earth Crisis? That is the Question.
Yesterday, the American Enterprise Institute hosted a two panel discussion on whether there is “A Rare-Earth Crisis?” The panelists came from diverse backgrounds and were each...
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Events from Around Town: The Chairman’s Perspective on Natural Security
Given that there is never a shortage of immediate crises monopolizing their time and energy, it is easy for policymakers to give less attention to the threats looming just bey...
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This Weekend’s News: The New Tempo of Energy Issues in the Media
Energy issues – from nuclear, coal to oil – were prominent in the news this weekend. Japanese officials continued to struggle with the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclea...
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South Korea’s Quest for (Foreign) Energy
China is normally the most prominent country when the media and analysts cover rising volumes of international energy deals and investments. South Korea, however, is giving it...
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The President's Speech on Libya
I did not have a quick response to the president's address on Libya because, uh, I went to rugby practice instead of staying in the office to watch. Sorry. But I came home and...
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Earth Observation Satellites and the Crises in Japan
We’ve discussed earth observation satellites a number of times on this blog in the past few weeks. Much of our focus thus far has been on the utility of these satellites in he...
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A Message on World Water Day 2011
Today marks the eighteenth annual World Water Day, an annual UN-sponsored day to recognize the importance of water management and the role that it plays in civil society – and...