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Will China Miss Out on the Shale Energy Revolution?
Consider this striking paradox: Just as the Energy Information Administration announces that new shale discoveries are driving record increases in U.S. proved oil reserves and near-record additions in...
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India Should Not Leave Nawaz Sharif Hanging
Renewed military tensions in the disputed Kashmir region are once again underscoring how even localized incidents there can subvert important diplomatic initiatives between India and Pakistan....
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China and the Dangerous Shoal of Reform
Two recent news items out of China have raised expectations that the new leadership in Beijing intends to push ahead with major market-oriented policies. The first is an announcement that a key...
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Private Enterprise and the U.S.-China Power Contest
A central focus of this blog is handicapping the global power sweepstakes between the United States and China. And a regular theme here is the role private enterprise is playing in revitalizing U.S....
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Missing the Real Story about Miss America
I have a commentary piece in today’s San Jose Mercury News that argues: Much of the focus since Nina Davuluri’s crowning as this year’s Miss America has been on the racist attacks on social media...
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U.S.-India Relations: The Overshadowed Summit
The U.S.-India relationship is enveloped these days by grand rhetoric. But for a reality check on the state of bilateral affairs, look no further than the summit meeting between President Obama and...
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U.S. Smart Power is Taking a Beating
In his journey to the White House, Barack Obama made much hay railing against his predecessor’s supposedly go-it-alone mindset and penchant for foreign policy unilateralism. With memories still fresh...
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Common Problems Subverting Obamacare and U.S. Foreign Policy
The management flaws now coming to light in the implementation of the president’s signature domestic achievement have long been evident in the foreign policy realm. As I argue in a new essay on Fair...
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The Conventional Wisdom is Schizoid about U.S. Power
Photo: Evan Vucci, AFP/Getty Images The conventional wisdom about America’s global standing wants to have it both ways. The narrative about last month’s fiscal melodrama in Washington emphasizes how...
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Obama: Can the “Lonely Guy” Be an Effective Foreign Policy Leader?
In earlier posts (here, here,here and here), I’ve argued that the Obama administration’s national security process is plagued by extreme insularity, centralization and politicization. Ultimately,...
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The China Hype is now being tested in Asia
Criticizing the conventional wisdom about the inevitability of China’s global ascendancy and American strategic decline is a regular preoccupation for this page. Indeed, a recent post took aim at the...
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Sorry China – The U.S. is the One Making Space History
This past weekend, China became the third country to land a spacecraft intact on the moon. The unmanned Chang’e-3 probe subsequently deployed a robot rover that will explore the lunar surface for the...
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Time for Some Realism in U.S.-India Relations
In a piece on Foreign Policy’s website the other week, Tim Roemer, the immediate past U.S. ambassador in New Delhi, urged Washington officials to pay closer attention to India as a geopolitical and...
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Obama Should Take Bob Gates’s Criticism to Heart
Photo Credit: Pete Souza In earlier posts (here, here, and here), I argued that the Obama administration’s national security process is plagued by extreme insularity, centralization and...
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Gates Sheds New Light on Obama’s Afghan Dysfunctions
My last post noted how the blockbuster memoir by Robert M. Gates reinforces the points many observers have made about the defects of the Obama administration’s national security process. The...
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