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March 31, 2017 | By Kathleen H. Hicks, Melissa Dalton

In this report, CSIS’s International Security Program sets forth analysis of Iran’s strategy, motivations, military, and paramilitary capabilities and evaluates the effects of Iranian behavior on key U.S. partners.

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Recalibrating U.S. Strategy toward Russia

March 30, 2017 | By Kathleen H. Hicks, Lisa Sawyer Samp, Jeffrey Mankoff, Heather A. Conley

These are turbulent times for American foreign policy. Nowhere are the challenges facing the United States more evident than in U.S. policy toward Russia. Drawing on scholars across several disciplines and perspectives, CSIS conducted a year-long study that sought to achieve two goals.

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Countering Coercion in Maritime Asia

May 9, 2017 | By Michael J. Green, Kathleen H. Hicks, John Schaus

This study reviews deterrence literature and nine case studies of coercion to develop recommendations for how the United States and its allies and partners could counter gray zone activity.

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The Kremlin Playbook 2: The Enablers

March 27, 2019 | By Heather A. Conley, Donatienne Ruy

Some countries have enabled Russian malign economic influence to flow through their systems and across Europe. This feeds the Kremlin’s cycle of influence, weakens democratic structures in Europe, and threatens U.S. and transatlantic security.

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The Kremlin Playbook

October 13, 2016 | By Heather A. Conley

There was a deeply held assumption that, when the countries of Central and Eastern Europe joined NATO and the European Union in 2004, these countries would continue their positive democratic and economic transformation.

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