Bolstering Arms Control in a Contested Geopolitical Environment
…Colby and A. Wess Mitchell, “The Age of Great Power Competition,” Foreign Policy, January/February 2020, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-12-10/age-great-power-competition. President Obama first proposed the ‘Pivot to Asia’’ although his effort was marred by…
DOD Authorities for Foreign and Security Assistance Programs: A Comparison of the FY 2010 House and
…(SASC) concluded its markup on July 2. The Senate bill is currently under debate on the floor. Here, members of the Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense project staff have…
Commission Convenes in New York to Finalize Recommendations, Meet UN Member States
…The Arab International Women’s Forum); Celso Amorim (former Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Relations of Brazil); Lloyd Axworthy (former Foreign Minister of Canada); Igor Ivanov (former Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation); Yoriko Kawaguchi (former Foreign…
Robert Agee: An American Businessman in Moscow
…say it was pretty fun. Peter Slezkine: Straining? Bob Agee: No, it was fun. I was a student in Leningrad at the time, and we lived in a famous building…
Strengthening Dual Deterrence on Taiwan: The Key to US-China Strategic Stability
Executive Summary Here we are again. China flexes its muscles; a new U.S. administration stokes confrontation with China to justify its policies, foreign and domestic. China then responds with eager…
China’s Use of Armed Coercion: To Win Without Fighting
…foreign policy objectives that China has pursued. Building on the approaches developed in Force Without War: US Armed Forces as a Political Instrument (Brookings 1978) and Military Coercion and US…
Dynkin and Voitolovsky: Welcome to Washington
…you think that you are the first two foreign policy experts from Russia to have come to the U.S. capitol since the start of the war? Alexander Dynkin: It looks…
Testing Assumptions About the War in Ukraine, One Year Later
…Ukraine has provided an opportunity to evaluate some of the beliefs and assumptions underlying U.S. foreign policy. Although Washington can learn much from the war, it should be wary of…