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Leading the Free World
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The United States has led the free world for eight decades, helping to usher in an era of unprecedented human flourishing. For much of that period, democracies expanded in num...
By Richard Fontaine, Shanthi Kalathil, Tod Lindberg, Tom Malinowski, Sarah Margon, Gibbs McKinley, Derek Mitchell, Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Corban Teague & Daniel Twining
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War Powers: What Are They Good For?
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Congressional aspirations to equal partnership in the conduct of American conflicts have long gone unsatisfied....
By Richard Fontaine, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Stephen Tankel
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Congress’s Hidden Strengths
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Introduction On matters of peace and war, virtually no one seems satisfied with Congress. Constitutionally coequal to the executive, the Congress often appears more an uneasy ...
By Richard Fontaine & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Rising to the China Challenge
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The United States and China are locked in strategic competition over the future of the Indo-Pacific—the most populous, dynamic, and consequential region in the world....
By Ely Ratner, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Rush Doshi, Chris Dougherty, Richard Fontaine, Peter Harrell, Martijn Rasser, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Eric Sayers, Daleep Singh, Paul Scharre, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Neil Bhatiya, Ashley Feng, Joshua Fitt, Megan Lamberth, Kristine Lee & Ainikki Riikonen
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New Voices in Grand Strategy
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Foreword In June 2008, the Center for a New American Security published a compendium of essays to grapple with the central questions of American grand strategy.1 The volume co...
By Richard Fontaine, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Emma Ashford, Hal Brands, Jasen J. Castillo, Kate Kizer, Rebecca Friedman Lissner, Jeremy Shapiro & Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson
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Navigating Dangerous Pathways
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The ongoing integration of new technologies by U.S. and Russian militaries – particularly cyber, space, long-range strike, missile defenses, autonomous systems, and big data a...
By James N. Miller, Jr. & Richard Fontaine
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A New Era in U.S.-Russian Strategic Stability
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For more than two decades following the end of the Cold War, military conflict between the United States and Russia seemed highly implausible. While relations were sometimes r...
By James N. Miller, Jr. & Richard Fontaine
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Networking Asian Security
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Executive Summary American security strategy in the Asia-Pacific has for decades been built on a “hub and spokes” model of bilateral, exclusive alliance relationships. Japan, ...
By Richard Fontaine, Patrick M. Cronin, Mira Rapp-Hooper & Harry Krejsa
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Surveillance Policy
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Today, the United States faces a more diverse, more complex array of national security threats than ever before. With ever more human activity taking place on electronic netwo...
By Adam Klein, Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Extending American Power
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Foreword by Robert Kagan and James P. Rubin Over the past year, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) brought together an extraordinary group of scholars, practitione...
By Amb. Eric S. Edelman, James B. Steinberg, Julianne Smith, Kurt Campbell, Michèle Flournoy, Richard Fontaine, James P. Rubin, Stephen J. Hadley, Dr. Robert Kagan & Robert Zoellick
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Solving Long Division
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Eight CNAS experts examine a host of issues posed by unification – including nuclear weapons and deterrence, the U.S.-Korea alliance, and relations between the countries in No...
By David Eunpyoung Jee, Elbridge Colby, Hannah Suh, Patrick M. Cronin, Richard Fontaine & Van Jackson
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An Intensified Approach to Combatting the Islamic State
CNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy and President Richard Fontaine have authored a new policy brief arguing that “current efforts to counter ISIS are not adequate to the task” and that ...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Seizing the Modi Moment: Reenergizing U.S.-India Ties on the Eve of the Prime Minister’s Visit
CNAS President Richard Fontaine offers an agenda of deepened strategic ties between the United States and India in anticipation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Bringing Liberty Online: Reenergizing the Internet Freedom Agenda in a Post-Snowden Era
CNAS President Richard Fontaine argues that, despite the many complications arising from the Snowden disclosures, America still needs a comprehensive Internet freedom strategy...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Emerging Asia Power Web: The Rise of Bilateral Intra-Asian Security Ties
The Asia team at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) explores the “Asia Power Web," a term the team developed to describe the growing trend of intra-Asian defense an...
By Ely Ratner, Patrick M. Cronin, Richard Fontaine & Zachary Hosford
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Global Swing States: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey and the Future of International Order
Daniel M. Kliman of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and CNAS President Richard Fontaine urge U.S. leaders to pursue closer partnerships with BRazil, India,...
By Daniel Kliman & Richard Fontaine
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National Security Guide to the 2012 Presidential Election
The Center for a New American Security's National Security Guide to the 2012 Presidential Election draws on the expertise of CNAS scholars to provide readers with a fact-based...
By Colin H. Kahl, Ely Ratner, Jacob Stokes, John A. Nagl, Kristin M. Lord, Melissa Dalton, Nancy Brune, Patrick M. Cronin, Richard Fontaine, Travis Sharp, Will Rogers, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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America's Path: Grand Strategy for the Next Administration
In America’s Path: Grand Strategy for the Next Administration, editors and CNAS experts Richard Fontaine and Dr. Kristin M. Lord bring together four strategists - Dr. Robert J...
By Kristin M. Lord & Richard Fontaine
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America’s Cyber Future: Security and Prosperity in the Information Age
Despite productive efforts by the U.S. government and the private sector to strengthen cyber security, the increasing sophistication of cyber threats continues to outpace prog...
By Kristin M. Lord, Mike McConnell, Peter Schwartz, Richard Fontaine, Travis Sharp & Will Rogers
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Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy Imperative in the Digital Age
From Egypt to Tunisia to Iran, the world has borne witness to the power of the Internet and new digital tools used to communicate across borders, organize protests, topple som...
By Richard Fontaine & Will Rogers
