Outside Publications

The CIA is delaying our books’ publication, and that hurts our democracy

The Washington Post We are former senior CIA analysts who, in our combined 23 years of service, have been privy to secrets that would amaze you. You will never hear them from us. We also have learned other critical, but...

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The Tragedy of Obama’s Foreign Policy

Current History During his first campaign for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama held out the promise of a “post-post-9/11 foreign policy” through which the United States would leave its obsession with terrorism behind and begin to focus on...

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Putin Is No Partner on Terrorism

Foreign Affairs Of all the illusions surrounding U.S.–Russian relations, none is more dangerous than the notion that Russia can be a partner in the war on terrorism. Yet U.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears to be willing to make a massive...

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Small Tribes, Big Gains: The Strategic Uses of Gender Quotas in the Middle East

The Journal of Comparative Politics Why do some political actors nominate women more than others in the Muslim world? This article argues that certain social groups have an instrumental demand for female candidates because they believe such candidates will...

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Strategic Planning for the New Administration

Hoover Institution On January 20, 2017, President-Elect Trump will inherit a powerful array of international challenges, capabilities, and opportunities. Insofar as there is any plausible focus within the modern federal government for the imposition of an overarching coherence on...

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From union (ʾīttihād) to united (muttahida): the United Arab Emirates, a success born of failure

Middle Eastern Studies The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was the result of more than three years of failed negotiations to unify the nine pre-state shaykhdoms. Thus, the formation of the UAE may be viewed as a success born of...

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Japanese Media on the Impact of Donald Trump’s Election on Japan and China

The ASAN Forum Japanese awakened to Donald Trump’s victory in disbelief, coining the label “Trump shock” to go with other “shocks” memorable in their history with the United States.1 A failure had occurred: of the US media, of the...

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Facing China: Policy Challenges for the Trump Administration in East Asia

The ASAN Forum As Donald J. Trump comes to power as the 45th president of the United States, he and his national security and foreign policy team will face significant challenges in dealing with a now-formidable and recently more...

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What Trump Should Do about China

The ASAN Forum The monkey king raised his cudgel, and there was great disorder in Heaven. The jadelike firmament was cleared of dust With this phrase, Mao Zedong began China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. As nearly all Chinese would...

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Will Donald Trump Be A Good President?

Wallet Hub In foreign policy, Trump has decades of experience in business negotiations, with his large fortune indicative of his skills therein. Reducing America’s role internationally does not, as his critics charge, equate to isolationism, nor does it mean...

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