October 20, 2020
BoliviaExit polls indicate socialist candidate Luis Arce will become Bolivia’s next president. The peaceful vote signaled an end to a year of electoral uncertainty, but the victor will now confront social u…
October 5, 2020
CybersecurityThe U.S. State Department's Clean Network program, created in response to China's expanding capabilities in cyberspace, recalls the the warning George Kennan gave about the Soviet Union in his famous…
September 22, 2020
Middle East and North AfricaThe Trump administration’s case for invoking “snapback” sanctions against Iran for violating the nuclear deal rests on shallow arguments that have left Washington alone in efforts to pressure Tehran…
October 13, 2020
United StatesThe U.S. Navy turns 245 years-old today. On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned two ships, each with eighty sailors, “for intercepting such transports as may be laden with warlike…
September 23, 2020
SpaceThe Trump administration's newly issued directive on cybersecurity policy for outer space is another small step towards taking cyber threats to U.S. space systems seriously.
October 7, 2020
U.S. Foreign PolicyAn insider’s perspective on why U.S. policymakers repeatedly underestimate the costs and consequences of intervention to both the United States and the people of the Middle East.
October 6, 2020
News Release“The iron rule of regime change in the Middle East seems to be that its costs will be higher than expected, unintended consequences will emerge, and results will leave much to be desired.” So warns P…
September 30, 2020
United StatesAlice C. Hill, David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at CFR, discusses environmental risk management and climate change in the context of events such as the West Coast wild…
September 14, 2020
CybersecurityVaccine nationalism has given rise to a new wave of cyber espionage targeting COVID-19 vaccine research.
September 8, 2020
Elections and VotingThe next administration will have to confront the future of the internet.
