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Remembering Theodore Hamerow
Tweet Share on Facebook February 22, 2013 CommentDr. Lamont Colucci is an associate professor of politics at Ripon College, recent Fulbright Scholar to the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, and author of The National Security Doctrines of the American Presidency: How they Shape our Present and Future, among other books. You can find out more at lamontcolucci.com.
A nation's destiny is determined by its past; its present is protected by its historians. America sits along the threshold of past and future, more comfortable in the present as a political culture. It must rely on its historians to remind her of prior obligations and responsibilities. In rare circumstances individual Americans combine all of this into a single life.
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U.S. Can't Wait for a 9/11-Scale Attack to Act on China Cyberspying
Tweet Share on Facebook February 22, 2013 CommentDaniel Gallington is the senior policy and program adviser at the George C. Marshall Institute in Arlington, Va. He served in senior national security policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Justice, and as bipartisan general counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Recent reports of wide-scale and long-term Chinese Army cyberattacks against some of our private sector technology companies should come as no surprise. Not only that, it shows that the Chinese can go against cybersystems and cybertargets of their choice, including whatever of our "critical cyber infrastructure" they select to penetrate—or shut down.
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What to Expect from Obama and Abe’s U.S.-Japan Summit
Tweet Share on Facebook February 22, 2013 CommentScott W. Harold, Ph.D., is an associate political scientist specializing in East Asian security and foreign policy with the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation.
TOKYO—Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives in Washington for a meeting on Friday with President Barack Obama that could define the future of the two countries' relations—and the broader Asia-Pacific region—for years to come.
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Six Oscar-Nominated Films on Global Issues
Tweet Share on Facebook February 22, 2013 CommentRobert Nolan is an editor at the Foreign Policy Association and Producer of the Great Decisions in Foreign Policy television series on PBS. You can follow him on Twitter @Robert_Nolan.
While nearly anyone who follows international affairs has read countless reviews over the depiction of torture in Oscar-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty and the hard-to-believe escape of American hostages from Iran in Argo, this year's crop of Oscar nominees offer a take on global issues beyond water boarding and bad '70s mustaches. Here are trailers for six films that address global issues you probably haven't heard much about.
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Fighting Chinese Cyberespionage: Obama's Next Move
Tweet Share on Facebook February 21, 2013 CommentJason Healey is director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council. You can follow his comments on cyber cooperation, conflict, and competition on Twitter at @Jason_Healey.
Finally the Obama administration has come into the open in their calls against other nations' stealing of trade secrets, especially through cyberespionage. The just-released "Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of US Trade Secrets" is the next in a promised string of new cyber policies and actions from a newly invigorated White House. Like the previously released cyber executive order, this new strategy is a good next step, much in line with my recent recommendations, but will need energy and follow through on the details. Bolder solutions will eventually be needed as the problems are as old as cyberspace.
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The Limits of a Smaller U.S. Military
Tweet Share on Facebook February 21, 2013 CommentMichael P. Noonan is the director of the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Tuesday over at his "Best Defense" blog at foreignpolicy.com Tom Ricks from CNAS argued that there was a study to be written entitled "More Salvadors, Fewer Vietnams." His line of thinking is that:
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The Case Against Increased North Korea Sanctions
Tweet Share on Facebook February 21, 2013 CommentTed Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is the author of nine books and more than 500 articles and studies on international issues.
North Korea's latest nuclear test is causing the usual consternation in the international community. The European Union has strengthened economic sanctions against Pyongyang, and the United States and its East Asian allies are calling for a similar response. That is both futile and potentially dangerous.
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After Nuclear Test, Obama Needs a New North Korea Strategy
Tweet Share on Facebook February 20, 2013 CommentEvan Moore is a senior policy Analyst at the Foreign Policy Initiative.
North Korea's nuclear test last week and its warnings of more tests dramatically illustrate that the past two decades of U.S. policy towards Pyongyang have failed. The Obama, Bush, and Clinton administrations all have used international diplomacy—and at times promises of food, fuel, and technological assistance—to persuade the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to abandon its nuclear program. However, with the brief exception of the 2007 freezing of Pyongyang's financial assets in Banco Delta Asia, Washington has not advanced truly serious forms of coercive pressure against the Hermit Kingdom. If the United States has any hope of reversing North Korea's expanding nuclear ambitions, this must change.
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Rethinking How We Value Global Trade
Tweet Share on Facebook February 20, 2013 CommentEd Gerwin is a senior fellow for Trade and Global Economic Policy at Third Way.
In his most recent State of the Union, President Obama touted the fact that American companies like Apple, Ford, and Intel are bringing manufacturing operations back to the United States. This key trend will support good American jobs—while strengthening the manufacturing and innovation ecosystem that's a vital source of America's global competitiveness.
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How the U.S. Should Respond to Chinese Cyberespionage
Tweet Share on Facebook February 19, 2013 CommentJason Healey is director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council. You can follow his comments on cyber cooperation, conflict, and competition on Twitter @Jason_Healey.
A U.S. cybersecurity company has released details proving beyond any reasonable doubt that the Chinese military, through its Unit 61398, has intruded into at least 141 organizations over seven years, stealing terabytes of data from each. Now that attribution is clear (and, more importantly, public) the U.S. government has its best opportunity in years to take direct action against Chinese cyberespionage and help to create new norms of behavior between nations.
