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With Eye on Export Boost, Trump Admin Revises Arms Transfer Policies

The Trump administration released new conventional arms transfer (CAT) and drone export policies last week. Why it matters: The policies further Trump’s goal of increasing

April 27, 2018
Rachel Stohl
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Abe and Trump’s Friendship without Benefits

On 17–18 April 2018, US President Donald Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The pair’s personal rapport was emphasised throughout

April 26, 2018
Yuki Tatsumi
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Can ‘Citizen Science’ Save Vietnam’s Environment From Unchecked Economic Growth?

By James Borton In early April 2016, fishermen in Vietnam began noticing something alarming: Dead fish were washing up on the shores

April 24, 2018
James Borton
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Trump and Kim Upend Diplomatic Protocol

Quote of the week: “Americans, being a moral people, want their foreign policy to reflect the values we espouse as a nation.

April 24, 2018
Michael Krepon
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How R2P impedes global governance

Despite the UN’s many member states that have attempted to redress R2P, the principle is still not included in the general assembly’s

April 21, 2018
Logan Pauley
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Inside the CIA’s Secret War in Afghanistan

Steve Coll’s new book picks up where he left off in Ghost Wars, published in 2004. Together, the two volumes are more

April 19, 2018
Michael Krepon
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The Logic of Nuclear Superiority

Quotes of the week: “You show me a Secretary of Defense who’s planning not to prevail [in a nuclear war] and I’ll

April 18, 2018
Michael Krepon
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China Takes the Lead in UN Peacekeeping

Over the past few weeks, Chinese state media has been abuzz with its peacekeeping accomplishments in a number of international missions, from Mali to South

April 17, 2018
Logan Pauley
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As the U.S. and Russia Spar Over Syria, China Sits Strategically on the Sidelines

The 105 cruise missiles that the United States, France and the United Kingdom fired at Syria late last week, in response to

April 17, 2018
Logan Pauley
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Can Abe Help Trump Prepare for the North Korea Summit?

By Pamela Kennedy After a fall and summer of spiraling tensions between North Korea, its neighbors, and the U.S., the new season

April 13, 2018
Pamela Kennedy
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What the U.S. can do now to protect against Russian cyber warfare advances

The Russians are not coming, they are here. And they’re poised for new age warfare that uses weapons of mass disruption rather

April 11, 2018
Debra Decker
Commentary

A Passive U.S. Approach to the Next India-Pakistan Crisis?

Quote of the week: “Escalation is inherent in war both because the desire to win and the need not to lose.” –

April 10, 2018
Michael Krepon
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