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Health Surveillance Is Here to Stay
Commentary
Washington’s post-9/11 debate about how much surveillance a free society should allow has suddenly become about much more than counterterrorism and national security. Amid tod...
By Carrie Cordero & Richard Fontaine
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Can the G7 Stop the Coronavirus?
Commentary
The world’s leading governments are throwing all they have into the coronavirus fight. Recent days have seen dramatic social distancing requirements, novel border controls, ma...
By Gary Edson & Richard Fontaine
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Great Power, Great Responsibility: Global Competition in an Age of Uncertainty
Podcast
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, William Inboden, director of the Clements Center at the University of Texas at Austin, sits down with Richard Fontaine, Chief Executive ...
By Richard Fontaine & William Inboden
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Virus Competition Is Wrecking China-U.S. Cooperation Hopes
Commentary
As Washington shifted its worldview over the last several years to a sharp focus on China competition, even the most claw-bearing hawks generally left open the possibility of ...
By Richard Fontaine
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G7 leaders pledge to do 'whatever is necessary' to combat COVID-19
Leaders of the Group of Seven nations have described the COVID-19 pandemic as a human tragedy that poses major risks for the world economy. The leaders of the United States...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Afghan peace deal and its eerie parallels with Vietnam
Commentary
Last month marked a potential turning point in America’s 19-year war in Afghanistan. In signing a landmark peace agreement, the United States and the Taliban paved the way for...
By Richard Fontaine
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Clawing Back Constitutional War Powers
Commentary
Washington is in the early innings of what has the potential to become the most significant congressional claw-back of constitutional war powers authority since Vietnam. Follo...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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The Global Exchange: Richard Fontaine on "Modernizing American Homeland Defence"
Podcast
A broadcast from the Canadian Global Affairs Institute's armchair discussion with Richard Fontaine on “Modernizing American Homeland Defence” from their 2019 Modernizing ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Power and Pretzels in Munich, 2020
Commentary
Once a year, the world’s foreign policy elite descend on Bavaria for a weekend to reconnect with colleagues, eat pretzels, and debate the shape of global order. The Munich Sec...
By Richard Fontaine
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Richard Fontaine Discusses U.S. Strategy, Iran, and John McCain's Legacy
Podcast
Richard Fontaine, CEO of CNAS, joins Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss conditions for military intervention, the future of the Iran crisis, and what he learned...
By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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Working National Security on John McCain’s Presidential Campaign
Podcast
Richard Fontaine spent years advising leading figures in American foreign policy, but working for the late Sen. John McCain was unlike anything he had experienced before. Now ...
By Richard Fontaine & Ilan Goldenberg
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Stories from the Backchannel: Season Two Trailer
Podcast
Now more than ever, Americans are interested in the people working behind the scenes on consequential national security decisions. In Season Two of Stories from the Backchanne...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Richard Fontaine, Susanna V. Blume, Kayla M. Williams, Price B. Floyd, Kurt Campbell & Kara Frederick
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Debates on the Use of Military Force
Host Kathleen Hicks moderates a discussion about the use of force and AUMFs (Authorizations for the Use of Military Force), with her colleague Melissa Dalton (CSIS), Richard F...
By Richard Fontaine
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After the killing of Soleimani, what’s next for US-Iran relations?
Commentary
Traveling with a congressional delegation to Iraq more than a decade ago, I recall one briefing by the US command in Baghdad. Soldiers had just caught several Iranians importi...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS: Bold Ideas for National Security
Video
This year, CNAS experts brought bold ideas and bipartisan cooperation to the national security conversation. In 2020, the CNAS team will continue tackling the biggest security...
By Susanna V. Blume, Kara Frederick, Kayla M. Williams, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Richard Fontaine, Kristine Lee, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Ely Ratner, Paul Scharre, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Carrie Cordero
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The Enduring Relevance of Reagan’s Westminster Speech
Commentary
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of three essays, commissioned by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, examining the legacy of Reagan’s Westmin...
By Richard Fontaine
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Does 'America First' mean 'America Alone'?
Video
Are Washington's traditional allies confident that the U.S. will stand by them in their time of need? Does "America First" really mean "America Alone?" Or perhaps a U.S. that ...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Nonintervention Delusion
Richard Fontaine addresses the most frequently expressed concerns about U.S. military interventions and concludes that the use of military force will remain a key component of...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Most Dangerous Moment of the Trump Presidency
Commentary
For all of the uncertainty of the Trump administration’s nearly three years in power, genuine international crises have been rare. That’s changing right now. The attack a week...
By Richard Fontaine
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Great-Power Competition Is Washington’s Top Priority—But Not the Public’s
Commentary
For all the acrimony in Washington today, the city’s foreign policy establishment is settling on a rare bipartisan consensus: that the world has entered a new era of great-pow...
By Richard Fontaine
