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Central Bank Digital Currency, Design Choices, and Impacts on Currency Internationalization
December 18, 2020 | Stephanie Segal, Pearl Risberg Digital currencies have emerged as important innovations with potentially large impacts on the international monetary and financial system. Finding international alignment on CBDC architecture, infrastructure, and rules is critical given the rapid pace of innovation and the...

Commentary
Enemies—and Partners—Will Get a Vote in the Middle East
December 17, 2020 | Jon B. Alterman Dr. Jon Alterman discusses how foreign powers might react to a U.S. rebalance away from the Middle East.

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Preventing a Crisis with North Korea
December 17, 2020 | Victor Cha For President-elect Biden to reduce the North Korean threat, his administration will need to build off past successes while fundamentally transforming the political relationship with Pyongyang.

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Surprise and Stability in the High North
December 14, 2020 | Rachel Ellehuus The Department of Defense’s dynamic force employment concept uses operational unpredictability to maximize resources and complicate adversary planning. Yet this new emphasis on surprise and lack of transparency and predictability risks upsetting regional stability.

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The Latin America That Will Engage the New Administration
December 14, 2020 | Evan Ellis As U.S. election challenges proceed toward resolution and President-elect Joseph Biden puts his transition team into place, Latin America and the Caribbean will demand his attention.

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Global Security Forum 2020: A New Era for U.S. Alliances
December 14, 2020 | Emma Bates, Samuel Brannen The 2020 Global Security Forum Report distills insights for alliance strategy from a bipartisan group of 60 experts who assessed 3 hypothetical future scenarios.

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U.S. Nuclear Warhead Modernization and “New” Nuclear Weapons
December 10, 2020 | Rebecca Hersman, Joseph Rodgers The brief examines the debate surrounding the development of U.S. nuclear warheads and whether the United States is creating “new” nuclear weapons. It examines the expansion of U.S. nuclear warhead capabilities and its implications for the U.S.-UK and NATO relations.

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Five Types of International Cooperation for Missile Defense
December 9, 2020 The United States has long worked with its allies on missile defense cooperation. Yet as missile threats proliferate, international cooperation has become increasingly important.

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Civilian Protection through Civilian Control: An Overlooked Piece of Security Sector Assistance in the Sahel
December 9, 2020 There is no capacity-building for civilian control commensurate with the emphasis on building military capabilities. Humanitarian goals in the Sahel could be achieved sustainably by adjusting security sector assistance to expand civilian capacity to control the military.

Commentary
The Biden Transition and Reshaping U.S. Strategy: Long Engagements vs. Long Wars
December 9, 2020 | Anthony H. Cordesman The Biden transition team will need to address a set of primary questions to determine the future of current U.S. long-term military engagements, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

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Department of Defense Other Transaction Authority Trends: A New R&D Funding Paradigm?
December 8, 2020 | Rhys McCormick Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements are an increasingly popular tool across the Department of Defense as the United States seeks ways to maintain technological superiority against global competitors. This brief examines the recent trends in OTA usage across the...

Critical Questions
The Air and Missile War in Nagorno-Karabakh: Lessons for the Future of Strike and Defense
December 8, 2020 | Shaan Shaikh, Wes Rumbaugh The combined use of drones, artillery, and missiles in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh offers critical insight into the conduct of future wars.

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