Publications

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  CRANK Call | September 2025

  CRANK Call is a monthly review of developments involving cooperation, and at times contention, among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (the CRANKs). September 2025 Highlights Russia and Iran strengthen relations after tensions over June war, conclude deal for nuclear power plants Russia and Iran have taken several steps in recent weeks—both rhetorical and substantive—to

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  Building an AI Alliance in the Middle East

  There is no “Team America” AI—yet. Data center construction and semiconductor sales make good headlines and generate solid profits for the tech companies that function as the market movers on Wall Street. The Trump Administration has an AI Action Plan for leveraging diplomatic and financial resources in partnership with American companies to promote the full

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  America’s National Interests: A Report From The Commission on America’s National Interests, 2000

  The Commission on America’s National Interests was established by a bipartisan group of Americans who are convinced that, in the absence of American global leadership, citizens will find their fortunes, their values, and indeed their lives threatened as surely as they have ever been. The Commission is concerned that after five decades of extraordinary exertion,

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  America’s National Interests: A Report From The Commission on America’s National Interests, 1996

  What are the United States’ national interests in today’s world? (1) Foreign policy in the wake of the Cold War has been five years of ad hoc fits and starts, which if continued will jeopardize America’s values, fortunes, and lives; (2) The defining feature of American engagement in the Post-Cold War world has been confusion;

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  CRANK Call | August 2025

  CRANK Call is a monthly review of developments involving cooperation, and at times contention, among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (the CRANKs). August 2025 Highlights Power of Siberia 2 pipeline agreement signed at Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a memorandum of understanding for the

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