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WEBMolly Campbell. Washington, September 9, 2024 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to welcome David McKenzie as its new Director of Communications. In this role, McKenzi... A rejection of the deal could damp Japanese companies’ appetite to consider investing in the US, …
Women in Combat: Five-Year Status Update - CNAS
WEBMar 31, 2020 · It has been five years since the ban on women in combat was lifted in 2015 and women began integrating previously closed combat arms billets in January 2016. Five years is the length of a service academy contract and longer than the average enlistment contract. Two years ago, there was mostly good news …
Sanctions by the Numbers: Spotlight on China - CNAS
WEBDec 2, 2020 · The United States has significantly increased its sanctions designations on Chinese individuals, entities, and ships in 2020. While the United States has imposed sanctions on Chinese entities and individuals for many years, these past actions were usually part of sanctions regimes that targeted other states, such as Chinese companies trading with North Korea or Iran, or non-state actors, like ...
Assessing the Evolving Russian Nuclear Threat - CNAS
WEBOct 31, 2023 · Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 reignited concerns about Moscow’s vast nuclear arsenal and the conditions under which the Kremlin might be willing to use these weapons. Moscow has gone to great lengths to stoke such concerns. At the start of the war, the Russian president publicly asked military leadership to place ...
Sharper: America's Alliances and Partnerships - CNAS
WEBNov 18, 2020 · Reports Rising to the China Challenge “Building the cooperation and coalitions necessary to renew American competitiveness in the Indo-Pacific,” CNAS experts argue in a major independent assessment for Congress, “will require deft and determined diplomacy.” The report offers a comprehensive approach to competition with China and nearly 100 specific, actionable policy recommendations ...
Sanctions by the Numbers: U.S. Secondary Sanctions
WEBAug 26, 2021 · CISADA was a major milestone in the secondary sanctions regime on Iran since it expanded the range of energy-related activities subject to ISA secondary sanctions—most importantly to refined petroleum imports—and prohibited U.S. banks from opening new correspondent accounts for foreign financial institutions that facilitated transactions with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
A Tale of Two Strategies: Comparing the Biden and Trump …
WEBNov 4, 2022 · As Center for a New American Security CEO Richard Fontaine said in a recent episode of the Lawfare Podcast, the word “strategy” in the NSS is something of a misnomer—anyone looking for an articulation of objectives and how to achieve them may be disappointed.Rather, as Fontaine notes, the NSS is a “very long foreign policy speech, a snapshot of how a particular administration ...
CNAS Responds: Analyzing the 2022 National Security Strategy
WEBOct 13, 2022 · Following the release of the 2022 National Security Strategy—highlighted by a CNAS cohosted launch event with the Georgetown School of Foreign Service featuring National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan—CNAS experts respond to the vision and stated policy priorities of this guiding document.
Sanctions by the Numbers: 2021 Year in Review | Center for a New …
WEBJan 13, 2022 · In 2021, the Treasury issued a total of 765 new designations with the majority (51 percent) pursuant to country-specific sanctions programs, mainly Belarus, Burma, China, and Russia, and 787 delistings with roughly 92 percent pursuant to thematic sanctions programs, mainly addressing drug trafficking. …
The legacy of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission - CNAS
WEBDec 30, 2021 · One of the government’s key mechanisms for pushing cybersecurity policy in recent years is shutting down. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission was charged in 2019 with sorting through the difficult policy solutions needed to help prevent and prepare the U.S. cyberattacks, is shutting down this month after more than two years and a report to Congress with nearly 100 recommendations that led to ...