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Israel’s War of Regime Change Is Repeating America’s Mistakes
Israel should begin planning not only for taking on such responsibilities but also for later handing them off to Palestinians....
By Richard Fontaine, Meghan L. O'Sullivan & David H. Petraeus
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Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power
By Richard Fontaine
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Obama tried to pivot to Asia in 2011. We must succeed this time.
This article, originally published in The Washington Post, is an excerpt from Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power. In 2011, President Barack Obama ...
By Richard Fontaine & Robert Blackwill
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Richard Fontaine and Hal Brands Discuss the Axis of Upheaval
The effects of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine are reverberating far beyond Ukraine’s borders. Perhaps most fundamentally, Putin’s invasion has catalyzed deepening cooperation...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Richard Fontaine & Hal Brands
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How The U.S. Failed To Meet the China Challenge
It’s a rare subject of bipartisan agreement that China is the greatest strategic challenge facing the U.S., perhaps the greatest it has ever faced. And yet, despite a decade o...
By Richard Fontaine & Robert Blackwill
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The Axis of Upheaval
The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Richard Fontaine
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AUKUS weighs expanding security pact with Japan to deter China
Australia and the United States have deepened their commitment to countering China's growing aggression in the Indo Pacific by bringing Japan into the fold. The allies announc...
By Richard Fontaine
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Japan will probably be a member of AUKUS Pillar 2 'before too long,' Richard Fontaine says
Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for New American Security, discusses Japan's relation to AUKUS, the Indo-Pacific security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom...
By Richard Fontaine
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AUKUS: Securing the Indo-Pacific, A Conversation with Kurt Campbell
This past March marked the one-year anniversary of the AUKUS Optimal Pathway announcement, between leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As we conti...
By Richard Fontaine & Kurt Campbell
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Ukrainians Are Resilient—But They Still Need Washington
Beyond material support, my visit made clear that the psychological effect of global solidarity, especially from the United States, remains vital...
By Richard Fontaine
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Two Years at War: Ukraine from the Battlefield to the Debate in Congress
Richard Fontaine joins Flash Focus to discuss the war in Ukraine on the eve of the second anniversary of Russia's invasion (Feb. 24th). Since 2022, Ukraine has held the line a...
By Richard Fontaine
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Worrywurst at the Munich Security Conference
On one matter, everyone — Europeans, Ukrainians, Americans, and delegates from other regions — concurred: What America does, or fails to do, will be vital....
By Richard Fontaine
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Americans Need Domestic Unity for Effective Foreign Policy
Today’s international challenges threaten the security, prosperity, and freedom of the American people. But Americans will naturally shy from a focus on overseas problems unti...
By Richard Fontaine & Stephen J. Hadley
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A Look at 2024 with Richard Fontaine and Michèle Flournoy
On this week’s episode of Brussels Sprouts, we are setting out to identify some of the big-picture trends shaping the transatlantic relationship and international affairs more...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Richard Fontaine & Michèle Flournoy
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Rumors of China’s Decline Are Premature and Dangerous
The chief near-term risk is not that Beijing’s ascent will fizzle, but rather that Washington will fail to muster the strength necessary for an adequate response....
By Richard Fontaine
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Richard Fontaine Joins CNN News Central to Discuss the Israel and Hamas War
On November 1, CNAS CEO Richard Fontaine joined CNN Central to discuss the latest developments in the Israel vs Hamas war, the opening of the Egyptian border to foreign nation...
By Richard Fontaine
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John McCain's Early Warning About Vladimir Putin and Authoritarianism
Years before anyone else in DC was concerned about the threat of Vladimir Putin and an aggressive Russia, one Senator was sounding the alarms: The late Senator John McCain. Ri...
By Richard Fontaine
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John McCain’s Warning of the Authoritarian Threat Should Be Heeded
McCain’s foresight was grounded in his fundamental worldview. He recognized the innate connection between the behavior of governments at home and abroad....
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Twining
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The Fault Lines in U.S. Foreign Policy
There’s a near consensus today that U.S. foreign policy has entered a new era. But how to define and navigate this new era is much less clear. Richard Fontaine, the CEO of t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Election Interference Demands a Collective Defense
The stakes have grown too high and the threats too pervasive to leave every democracy to its own devices....
By Richard Fontaine