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The Biden Transition and Reshaping U.S. Strategy: Replacing “Burden Sharing” with Meaningful Force Planning
January 11, 2021 | Anthony H. Cordesman The current U.S. posture toward its strategic partners and alliances fixates more on spending quotas than actual force development and modernization, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

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Making America Great? Global Perceptions of China, Russia, and the United States: The International Scorecard
January 7, 2021 | Anthony H. Cordesman The United States needs a strategy to reshape global perceptions of its overall character as a key form of competition against other great powers, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

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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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Chinese Security Engagement in Latin America
November 19, 2020 | Evan Ellis Chinese military engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean is an important and official acknowledged part of growing interactions by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with the region.

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The Need to Expand the Focus of the Congressional Budget Office 2020 Long-Term Budget Outlook
October 16, 2020 | Anthony H. Cordesman U.S. discretionary and defense spending have a larger impact on U.S. politics and the economy that current trends may not indicate, writes CSIS's Burke Chair.

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Good Governance and Corruption in the Caribbean: The Haitian Challenge
October 6, 2020 | Georges A. Fauriol The past decade has witnessed a decay of established democracies’ commitment to democratic principles, and in turn, a qualitative decline in adherence to the norms and institutions of democracy worldwide. How does this relate to Haiti?

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Guyana: Opportunities and Challenges for the United States and the Caribbean Basin
October 2, 2020 | Evan Ellis The potential of Guyana to rapidly shift from disaster to victory reflects both the unusual character of the incoming administration and the interest of Guyana’s political and business partners in a functional government that is now recognized as legitimate.

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Measuring Service Contract Performance
September 18, 2020 | Andrew Philip Hunter, Gregory Sanders Services account for over 41 percent of DoD contract obligations. This CSIS report looks at a million contracts to evaluate how three factors influence performance: service complexity, contract-management capacity, and vendor’s history working with a DoD contracting.

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Neighbor at Risk: Mexico’s Deepening Crisis
September 4, 2020 | Evan Ellis The performance of the Mexican economy, local conditions, and the effectiveness of its governance thus affects American jobs, investment, security, and lives.

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The Tactics and Targets of Domestic Terrorists
July 30, 2020 | Seth G. Jones, Catrina Doxsee, Nicholas Harrington With rising concerns about domestic terrorism, this analysis examines trends in terrorist tactics and targets in the United States. It compiles and analyzes an original CSIS data set of terrorist attacks in the United States between January 1, 1994, and May 8, 2020.

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Dominican Republic Elections: Political Backdrop and Relevance
June 30, 2020 | Armand Peschard-Sverdrup The Dominican Republic is scheduled to hold presidential and congressional elections on July 5, 2020, as the original May 17 date was canceled due to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Ending America’s Grand Strategic Failures
June 22, 2020 | Anthony H. Cordesman The United States needs to reshape its national security strategy to focus on global competition by supporting both U.S. and partner interests, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

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