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The Origins of Elected Strongmen
Since the end of World War II, democracies typically fell apart by coup d'état or through force. Today, however, they are increasingly eroding at the hands of democratically e...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright
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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today’s great power rivalry—the struggle to control artificial intelligence. A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mec...
By Paul Scharre
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Legacies of Repression in Egypt and Tunisia: Authoritarianism, Political Mobilization, and Founding Elections
About the Book: When an authoritarian regime collapses, what determines whether an opposition group will form a political party, be successful in mobilizing voters, and surviv...
By Alanna C. Torres-Van Antwerp
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Cronin: The Rise of Tailered Coercion in the South China Sea
Asia-Pacific Security Senior Director Patrick Cronin contributed a chapter on tailored coercion in the South China Sea. His contribution is part of a volume published by the C...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Challenges in U.S. National Security Policy (Chapter 10 by Elbridge Colby)
Robert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby authors a chapter in Challenges in U.S. National Security Policy, a festschrift by the RAND Corporation honoring Edward L. (Ted) Warner....
By Elbridge Colby
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The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
In The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, CNAS Senior Fellow Thomas E. Ricks explores the history of American military leaders and the growing div...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
In On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future, member of the CNAS Board of Directors and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Karen Elliott House navigat...
By Karen Elliott House
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The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
In The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Stratfor Chief Geopolitical Analyst ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
In Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former CNAS Writer-in-Residence and senior correspondent and associate editor at The Washingto...
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
In The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East, Dr. Marc Lynch, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at CNAS and Director of the Institute for Middle East Studi...
By Marc Lynch
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Counterstrike: The Untold Story Of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
In Counterstrike, a Henry Holt and Company book, former CNAS Writers in Residence, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of The New York Times, tell the story of how a group of analys...
By Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker
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Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power
An important new book titled Difficult Transitions by Kurt M. Campbell and James B. Steinberg. Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Po...
By James B. Steinberg & Kurt Campbell
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Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
In his new book, MONSOON: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (A Random House Hardcover, On Sale: October 19, 2010), bestselling author and CNAS Senior Fellow Ro...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Asia’s Security and the Contested Global Commons
CNAS Fellow Abraham Denmark writes a chapter in the report Asia's Rising Power on Asia's Security and the Contested Global Commons. Download a free sample of his chapter here....
By Abraham M. Denmark
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Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change
Global climate change poses not only environmental hazards but profound risks to planetary peace and stability as well. Climatic Cataclysm gathers experts on climate science, ...
By Alexander T.J. Lennon, Christine Parthemore, Derek Mix, J.R. McNeill, Jay Gulledge, John Podesta, Julianne Smith, Leon Fuerth, Peter Ogden, R. James Woolsey, Richard Weitz & Sharon E. Burke
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Managing North Korea: The Need for Coordination between Washington and Seoul
As the hundreds of American and South Korean officials involved in formulating and executing policy towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea over the years will attes...
By Richard Fontaine
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The U.S.-ROK Alliance in the 21st Century
The U.S.-ROK Alliance in the 21st Century, published by the Korea Institute for National Unification in December 2009, explores the bilateral relationship between the United S...
By Abraham M. Denmark & Richard Fontaine
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The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
March 17, 2009 - David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Pe...
By David Kilcullen
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The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
February 10, 2009 - In his new book out in stores February 10, CNAS Senior Fellow Thomas E. Ricks documents the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005. Using hundreds of...
By Michael J Zubrow & Thomas E. Ricks
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The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
With a historian's sweep, the unparalleled access of a New York Times White House correspondent and an ability to explain complex dilemmas in a gripping narrative, Sanger&...
By David Sanger