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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...

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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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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...

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To Compete, Invest in People: Retaining the U.S. Defense Enterprise’s Technical Workforce
November 23, 2020 | Lindsey R. Sheppard, Angelina Hidalgo The U.S. defense enterprise has an impressive history of science, engineering, and innovation. However, today, it struggles to retain its technical talent.

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Buttressing Institutional Integrity in an Election Year
October 27, 2020 | Devi Nair, Suzanne Spaulding How can the laws, policies, processes, historical precedents, and institutional norms guiding federal force roles be tested during a presidential election and transition?

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The Fabulous Five: How Foreign Actors Prop up the Maduro Regime in Venezuela
October 19, 2020 | Moises Rendon, Claudia Fernandez The Maduro regime continues to survive due to support from five key allies: Russia, China, Cuba, Iran, and Turkey. These allies have distinct financial and geopolitical motivations for propping up the Maduro regime and thus merit specific and nuanced policy approaches.

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Promote and Build: A Strategic Approach to Digital Authoritarianism
October 15, 2020 | Erol Yayboke, Samuel Brannen Digital authoritarianism transcends boundaries while subverting human rights and democratic principles. This brief presents a strategic approach grounded in fundamental principles and framed around promoting resilience while building affirmative alternatives.

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Toward a New “Lost Decade”? Covid-19 and Defense Spending in Europe
October 15, 2020 | Pierre Morcos Since the outbreak of Covid-19, European defense spending has entered uncharted waters, as public debt explodes and threat perceptions change. Lessons learned from the 2008 financial crisis should help Europeans take the necessary steps to avoid the worst-case scenario.

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The Analytic Edge: Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Transform Intelligence Analysis
October 9, 2020 The United States must invest in technology transformation to maximize intelligence analysts' ability to evaluate, synthesize, and utilize massive amounts of intel data.

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Defense Acquisition Trends 2020: Topline DoD Trends
October 8, 2020 | Rhys McCormick For more than a decade, CSIS Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group published an annual report examining trends in what DoD is buying, how DoD is buying it, & from whom DoD is buying. This brief presents the topline DoD contract trends for Fiscal Year 2019.

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A Frozen Line in the Himalayas
August 19, 2020 | Richard M. Rossow, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., Kriti Upadhyaya In this report, CSIS analysts use satellite imagery from Doklam, Bhutan, to underscore India’s growing role as a regional security provider in Asia.

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