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The Underlying Causes of Stability and Instability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

CSIS - Mon, 04/18/2016 - 9:00pm

The Burke Chair at CSIS is introducing a two-volume survey of the underlying causes of stability and instability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It draws upon the work of Anthony H. Cordesman, the Burke Chair in Strategy at the CSIS, and Dr.

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PacNet #36 - Note to Washington: enjoy Abe while you have him

CSIS - Sun, 04/17/2016 - 9:00pm

Shinzo Abe will not be Japan’s prime minister forever, and once he leaves office he might just be missed.

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Indian Ocean Region Strategic Net Assessment: The Red Sea and Horn Subregion

CSIS - Thu, 04/14/2016 - 9:00pm

While almost every state in the Red Sea and Horn of Africa subregion qualifies as high risk internally, none of the countries in the subregion constitute a serious strategic risk to the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).

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NATO Needs Deterrence and Dialogue: Defining the New Balance in View of the Warsaw Summit

CSIS - Thu, 04/14/2016 - 9:00pm

Deterrence is back in Europe. As NATO approaches its July summit in Warsaw, allies are adapting this concept to the new security settings in place in Europe since the 2014 crisis in Ukraine. Yet, deterrence is intrinsically connected to dialogue: these are the two pillars of NATO’s strategy, as defined in the 1967 Harmel Report.

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PacNet #35 - Rescind China's invitation to join RIMPAC

CSIS - Wed, 04/13/2016 - 9:00pm

Hawaii’s Rep. Mark Takai has objected to China’s participation at the 2016 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise based at Pearl Harbor. Takai also would amend the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to bar China if its invitation is not revoked by the Pentagon.

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Implications of South Korean Elections: Economic Stasis at Home, National Defense Abroad

CSIS - Wed, 04/13/2016 - 9:00pm

The Saenuri Party’s poor showing in the April 13 General Elections for the 20th National Assembly will be read as a sound defeat for the ruling party and for the Park administration.  The results come as a surprise and were inconsistent with the pre-election polling.  The 105 seats won by Saenuri falls far short of the 150-160 range expected for the ruling party (122 for Saenuri

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North Korean Provocations May Follow ROK Elections

CSIS - Mon, 04/11/2016 - 9:00pm
  •  CSIS data on North Korea suggests the likelihood of a North Korean provocation after ROK legislative elections on April 13 and before the Korean Workers’ Party Congress in the first week of May.
     
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Issues & Insights Vol. 16, No. 6 - US Missile Defense in the Age of Everything: From BMDS to IAMD

CSIS - Sun, 04/10/2016 - 9:00pm

Over the last 15 years, the US ballistic missile defense system (US BMDS) has developed into a cornerstone of US alliance policies in the Asia-Pacific.

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Missile Defense: Getting to the Elusive Right Side of the Cost Curve

CSIS - Thu, 04/07/2016 - 9:00pm

The specter of a ballistic missile attack on the United States and its allies, or at the very least the threat of such an attack, continues to grow. Threat systems from rogue nations such as North Korea and Iran continue to mature in quality and quantity.

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Issues & Insights Vol. 16, No. 5 - 16,000 problems: recommendations for the new Myanmar

CSIS - Thu, 04/07/2016 - 9:00pm

In 2007, writing for Foreign Policy on “Asia’s Forgotten Crisis,” Michael Green and Derek Mitchell reflected on the misplaced hope in the mid-1990s that Myanmar was undergoing substantive reforms.

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Korea Chair Monitor | Vol 4 Issue 6

CSIS - Thu, 04/07/2016 - 9:00pm

The Korea Chair team takes a biweekly look back at events of interest in Washington, Seoul, and the region from March 24 - April 6, 2016.

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Giving Iraq a Fighting Chance

CSIS - Wed, 04/06/2016 - 9:00pm

The war in Iraq sometimes seems distant and abstract. The expansion of ISIS terrorist attacks in Europe, the Syrian refugee issue, and Russian intervention in Syria get the bulk of media and public attention. The slow Iraqi gains in Anbar, and the city-by-city fighting that never quite seems to end is only dealt with in passing. The core of the U.S.

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PacNet #34 - China to enhance its role in Myanmar’s peace process

CSIS - Tue, 04/05/2016 - 9:00pm

Five days after the inauguration of the National League of Democracy (NLD) government, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Myanmar at the invitation of party head Aung San Suu Kyi. Knowing that the peace process will be a top priority for the new government, China is assumed to have put forth proposals on how Beijing can play a larger, more positive role in ethnic reconciliation.

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JLENS Future Bleak, But Need for Capability Remains

CSIS - Mon, 04/04/2016 - 9:00pm

Missile defense is not just about ballistic missiles. The wider problem of integrated air and missile defense, to include cruise missiles, has received growing attention in recent years.

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Helping the Kurds in the Recapture of Mosul

CSIS - Mon, 04/04/2016 - 9:00pm

The Iraqi Kurds have been the most effective fighters against ISIS and are moving into position to support the Iraqi Army’s unfolding assault on Mosul. How can the United States help the Kurds and sustain the assault on Mosul without inadvertently laying the groundwork for an Iraqi civil war or a Turkish invasion?

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Australia-Japan-U.S. Maritime Cooperation

CSIS - Sun, 04/03/2016 - 9:00pm

Since 2013, CSIS has developed an extensive body of research and policy discussion on the concept of federated defense. The Federated Defense Project aims to assess and recommend concrete ways for the United States and its partners to integrate their defense capabilities in support of shared interests.

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Syria and Iraq: How Should These Wars End?

CSIS - Sun, 04/03/2016 - 9:00pm

Grand strategy seems to be a forgotten concept in the wars in Iraq and Syria — and in the conflicts in Libya and Yemen as well. The tactical military focus of these wars is usually on finding some way to strengthen allied ground forces from day-to-day, or on defeating ISIL in the next battle or in reaching an objective.

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PacNet #33 - Japan’s security policy under Abe: much ado about almost nothing

CSIS - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 9:00pm

Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has been able to reorient his country’s security policy. The defense budget has been increasing since 2013, for the first time in a decade. The ban on arms exports has been loosened, allowing Japan to export defense items and technologies for the first time in 40 years.

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Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi Has China, Myanmar’s Military Watching

CSIS - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 9:00pm

Myanmar experienced a number of firsts over the past week. The Union Parliament—which now counts former political prisoners, doctors, businesspeople, and poets among its ranks—on March 24 approved a new cabinet to serve under the incoming National League for Democracy (NLD) government, the first civilian government to rule the country in over 50 years.

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Women in Senate Confirmed Department of Defense PAS Positions Since 1947

CSIS - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 9:00pm

This is an up-to-date list of female Presidential appointments in the Department of Defense which require Senate confirmation from 1947 to April 2015.

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