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The Cruel Politics of Arms Limitation

Arms limitation is ridiculously hard to explain and even harder to accomplish. Arms limitation is useful when dealing with bad actors that

June 13, 2016
Michael Krepon
Commentary

What Is to be Done on Trade?

By William Reinsch:  These are famous words in Russia — the title of one of Lenin’s most prominent manifestos. Having just been

June 7, 2016
William Reinsch
Commentary

Rachel Stohl intervewed in Foreign Policy Interrupted on Arms Trade Treaty

It’s been three years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Arms Trade Treaty, an agreement that aims to regulate the

June 5, 2016
Rachel Stohl
Commentary

What Washington Doesn’t Get about Iran

By Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. and Ramesh Sepehrrad: Obscured by the drama of America’s presidential campaign, one major foreign policy issue—the future

June 1, 2016
Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr.
Commentary

A forward-looking Obama in Asia

President Obama’s current trip to East Asia was organized around the G-7 meeting in Japan that is currently underway. But some of

June 1, 2016
Alan D. Romberg
Commentary

China’s MIRVs: Separating Fact From Fiction

According to the Pentagon, China has started to place multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, or MIRVs, on its DF-5B missile. It might place MIRVs

June 1, 2016
Travis Wheeler
Commentary

Fresh Ideas Needed to Prevent WMD Proliferation

By Debra Decker: President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima last week was important for one very stark reason: It forces us to remember

May 31, 2016
Debra Decker
Commentary

Trade’s Perfect Storm

By William Reinsch: One thing that has become obvious in the presidential campaign is that trade is front and center as an

May 31, 2016
William Reinsch
Commentary

Evaluating the Visit to Hiroshima

What are we to make of President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima? To my ear, President Obama’s speech was oddly unequal to the

May 31, 2016
Michael Krepon
Commentary

Words Are Not Enough in Hiroshima

By Michael Krepon:  President Barack Obama will deliver reflective thoughts in Hiroshima Friday, May 27, but this occasion deserves more than words;

May 26, 2016
Michael Krepon
Commentary

Killing the Emir

By Sameer Lalwani:  Last Friday, following another uninspiring meeting of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group, Pakistan issued a statement that more needed to be done

May 25, 2016
Sameer Lalwani
Commentary

Hillary Clinton’s Moment on Trade

By William Reinsch:  Like just about everybody else in the presidential campaign, with the notable and courageous exception of John Kasich, Hillary

May 23, 2016
William Reinsch
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