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A National Strategy for Global Development
Reuben Brigety and Sabina Dewan offer a strategy for protecting America and our world through sustainable security.
In Search of Sustainable Security
This report, the first in a series of six, provides analysis and recommendations for a new approach that combines national security, human security, and collective security.Other National Security Strategy Features
February 10, 2012
Ask the Expert: What China's Leadership Transition Means for the United States
Center for American Progress China Analyst Melanie Hart explains what U.S. policymakers need to know about China's 2012 leadership transition.
February 9, 2012
Getting Smarter on China
Melanie Hart, Rudy deLeon, and Ali Fisher explain why next week’s visit by Xi Jinping is significant and requires the American people to take stock of the new China.
February 8, 2012
The Obama Administration’s National Security Strategy
Benjamin Rhodes, White House Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, sat down with CAP President Neera Tanden on January 30 to discuss the administration’s policies and what impact they’ve had so far.
February 6, 2012
How to Stop the Bloodshed in Syria
America can play a leadership role in protecting civilians and expanding diplomatic options in Syria’s conflict without resorting to direct military intervention, write Sarah Margon and Brian Katulis.
January 31, 2012
The Obama Administration's National Security Policy
A discussion of the new challenges we face around the world with Benjamin Rhodes, White House Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications.
January 27, 2012
Panetta’s Trimmed Defense Budget Is a Good First Step—but It Isn’t Enough
Lawrence J. Korb, Max Hoffman, and Alex Rothman take a long view on Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s budget reductions and find that we’ll need to do more in the coming years to bring military spending under control.
January 23, 2012
Obama’s Leaner National Security Strategy Got the Job Done in 2011
The president can use tomorrow’s State of the Union address to point to the successes of his new approach that relies less on boots on the ground and more on nontraditional forms of power, says Peter Juul.
January 6, 2012
President Obama’s Defense Readjustments Shaped by New Strategic and Fiscal Realities
President Obama is wise to use the U.S. drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan as a turning point to update and improve U.S. national security strategy, write Lawrence J. Korb and Alex Rothman.
January 5, 2012
The Unaddressed Threat of Female Suicide Bombers
Ken Sofer and Jennifer Addison discuss why we need to acknowledge the growing number of female attacks in our counterterrorism strategy.
January 3, 2012
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