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  Supporting the Center for the National Interest: A Letter from Center President Dimitri K. Simes

  Our mission is unique—and we hope you will join it. The Center for the National Interest was founded in 1994 by Richard M. Nixon to be a “different kind of think-tank.” Today, as fashionable demands to remake the world or withdraw from it altogether bookend our foreign policy debates, the Center stands for something else–principled

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  Views from Abroad: Anticipating US Foreign Policy under Biden

  Much of the post-election talk in Washington foreign policy circles is focusing on the “return to normality” in America’s approach to the world.  How is the world viewing that prospect?  What do experts in China, Russia, Europe, and Israel expect from Biden, and how eager are U.S. partners and competitors for the return of conventionality

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  Are We Blaming Others for America’s Self-Generated Problems?

  It seems that the number of American fingers pointing abroad to explain developments at home is large and growing.  For many, Trump’s 2016 presidential victory was the product of Russian thumbs on our electoral scales.  Others blame job losses in the US heartland on predatory Chinese mercantilism and unfair labor practices.  Even the COVID-19 pandemic

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  Are China and Russia Outpacing the United States in Military Technology?

  The United States is increasingly facing a technology-driven arms race with China and Russia, in which Beijing and Moscow are each developing new technologies—and tactics—to compete with a still-dominant U.S. military force. This raises a variety of important questions. To what extent are China and Russia succeeding in developing new military technologies? Have China’s or

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  America’s Post-Election Landscape: Dawn or Dysfunction?

  What lies ahead for the United States as it emerges from one of the most momentous elections in its history?  Has the discord surrounding the country’s parallel trends toward anti-elite populism and identity politics peaked?  What might a new administration do to help heal a polity divided by such seemingly incompatible visions for the country’s

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