Tag: US FOREIGN AnD NATIonal security POLICy

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  U.S. Nuclear Cooperation in an Era of Strategic Competition

  As geopolitical competition reshapes global energy, security, and economic relationships, international nuclear cooperation is taking on renewed strategic importance. Several U.S. civil nuclear cooperation agreements under Section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act are currently pending or are expected to come before Congress. On July 22, 2026, the United States and Saudi Arabia announced a

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  Reassessing U.S.-Türkiye Relations: The View from Ankara

  At the recent NATO Summit in Ankara, President Trump announced a new opening in U.S.-Turkish ties, with an end to the long-standing sanctions on defense sales. In the latest report from the Center for the National Interest’s Regional Perspectives series, Dr. Hasan Mesut Önder asserts that this is only the start of a process to

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  The Case for Deeper U.S. Engagement with Afghanistan

  In the nearly five years since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the takeover by the Taliban, America has limited its engagement with the Afghan regime to securing the release of detainees and pursuing modest counter-terrorism cooperation. Kuchins proposes a pragmatic, step-by-step approach to interacting with officials in Kabul that could—in parallel with substantive collaboration

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  Soft Power, Hard Returns: American Investment in Egypt (w/ James Harmon & Cornelius Queen)

  Three Questions In 2011, Congress placed $300 million in the hands of private investors with an unusual mandate: grow Egypt’s economy on behalf of the American people. Fifteen years later, the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund has invested in more than 150 companies, helped create over 75,000 jobs, and grown to an estimated value of more than

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  What Is the National Interest?

  What Is the National Interest? This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1996 report of the Commission on America’s National Interests, a bipartisan effort to answer a deceptively simple question: what does the United States actually need to do in the world? Far from a dry policy artifact, the report was an attempt to

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