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2 months ago | 
cnas.org | Jon Wolfsthal |Jim Townsend |Gibbs McKinley |Kate Johnston
After Donald Trump declared victory on November 5, 2024, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was one of the first world leaders to congratulate the future president of the United States publicly.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Richard Fontaine |Gibbs McKinley
Washington, October 28, 2024 — Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a report calling on Washington to reassert global leadership on democracy and human rights. The product of a high-profile, bipartisan task force of foreign policy experts, the paper urges the next U.S. administration to engage with the contest between freedom and authoritarianism. “The stakes today are enormous,” said Richard Fontaine, chief executive officer of CNAS and one of the report’s lead authors.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Gibbs McKinley |Duyeon Kim
Over the past two years, delegations to Washington from Japan and South Korea have one predominant question for their interlocutors: What would a Trump 2.0 administration mean for their countries and for U.S. global leadership more broadly? Both Asian capitals appreciate the upgrades to their bilateral pacts with the United States under the Biden administration’s alliance-centric foreign policy, and express anxiety about the possible return of Trump as commander-in-chief.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Kate Johnston |Gibbs McKinley
Last month’s local election results in Turkey delivered a harsh blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Just under a year since the presidential election, in which Erdogan won another five years in power, Turkey’s opposition party—the Republican People’s Party (CHP)—won big victories in the majority of the country’s largest cities, including Istanbul, the economic powerhouse of Turkey.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Gibbs McKinley |Lisa Curtis |Annie Pforzheimer
Executive Summary Pursuing the same harsh policies as it did during its previous stint in power in the 1990s, the Taliban has increasingly clamped down on the rights of women and girls since recapturing control of Afghanistan in August 2021. Restrictions on education started with the Taliban mandate in March 2022 banning girls from attending school past the sixth grade.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Gibbs McKinley |Lisa Curtis |Richard Fontaine
Speaking in Davos, Switzerland, last week, Chinese Premier Li Qiang pitched his country as a solid investment destination. The Chinese economy, Li said, has “huge potential,” and choosing it “is not a risk, but an opportunity.”His audience listened skeptically. After decades of unstoppable Chinese economic, demographic and military growth, the past two years have seen more trouble than triumphs.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
themessenger.com | Gibbs McKinley
For two years, South Korea's leaders have aspired to make their country a “global pivotal state.” Starting in January, they have a major opportunity to do just that. On January 1, 2023, South Korea a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2024-25 term. It’s only the third time that the Republic of Korea (ROK) has been elected to the role, following its previous terms from 1996-97 and 2013-14.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Gibbs McKinley |Lisa Curtis
While 2024 marks the beginning of a presidential election year in the United States, it also marks a year of elections across the globe. These elections are taking place amid a rise in authoritarianism, with implications for democratic order at home and abroad. CNAS experts are sharpening the conversation about the state of democracy, election security, and tools to counter illiberal threats. Continue reading this edition of Sharper to explore their ideas and recommendations.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Gibbs McKinley |Lisa Curtis |Evan Wright |Hannah Kelley
Executive SummaryIn August 2023, the leaders of Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and the United States met for an unprecedented in-person summit at Camp David to expand and deepen trilateral relations.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Gibbs McKinley
For two years, South Korea's leaders have aspired to make their country a “global pivotal state.” Starting in January, they have a major opportunity to do just that. On January 1, 2023, South Korea a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2024-25 term. Washington should continue to support South Korea’s global aspirations, especially taking advantage of recent progress made towards trilateral cooperation between the United States, Japan, and South Korea.
