American Economic and Financial Power and the Iran File
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Juan Zarate
How Trump Could Use Tariffs to Attract Investment
The administration already has a blueprint—and now needs to make it work.
Op-eds
Ruble Rumble
Offensive and Defensive Measures to Defeat Russia in the Economic Domain
Monographs
The North Korean Crypto Threat
Excerpt North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea “DPRK”) presents a fundamental and growing international security challenge – and now represents the most serious nation-state risk...
Op-eds
The Lexicon of Terror: Crystallization Of The Definition Of “Terrorism” Through The Lens Of Terrorist Financing & The Financial Action Task Force
Excerpt It is widely assumed that there is no accepted international definition of terrorism, in part because global views on what constitutes terrorism are so politically polarized as to prevent arriving...
Op-eds
Juan C. Zarate ’97: ‘There’s a lot of presumption of the demise of American power, and I’m raging against that’
Former counterterrorism czar says the U.S. needs to reconceptualize what power means in the 21st century
Op-eds
Are there pieces of Trump’s foreign policy worth keeping?
The shock of the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Congress and the stain on the image of American democracy will not wear off anytime soon. This moment has amplified the impulse to reject the vestiges of Trump...
Op-eds
Hezbollah Operative Assad Ahmad Barakat Extradited to Paraguay
Brazilian authorities extradited Hezbollah financier Assad Ahmad Barakat to Paraguay on Friday, dealing a key blow to the terrorist group. Barakat, now awaiting trial, belongs to a powerful Lebanese Shiite...
Policy Briefs
Protecting the financial system against the coming cyber storms
Excerpt Moving the U.S. Secret Service from the Department of Homeland Security back to the Department of the Treasury is critically important in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)...
Op-eds
The US dollar is still king during the coronavirus
The economic shock of the last few weeks has shaken the United States economy, erased the last two and a half years of stock market gains, and has left 22 million Americans unemployed. Yet as the economic...
Op-eds
FDD Names Board of Advisors to Help Guide Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation
(Washington, DC, September 3, 2019) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) today announced 21 experts who will serve as members of the Board of Advisors for its Center on Cyber and Technology...
Press Releases
U.S. Adversaries Aim to Use Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology to Undermine U.S. Sanctions: New FDD Report
(Washington, DC, July 11, 2019) – A new Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) report issued today examines how four U.S. adversaries – Russia,...
Press Releases
New FDD Report Assesses First Two Years of Trump Administration’s Foreign and National Security Policies
FDD Scholars Provide Nonpartisan Analysis of 21 Key Areas of Global and Regional Instability
Press Releases
FDD Launches Center on Economic and Financial Power, Names Former Treasury Advisor Eric B. Lorber as Senior Director
(Washington, D.C., January 9, 2019) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) today unveiled its...
Press Releases
SWIFT Sanctions: Frequently Asked Questions
Memos
A Baccarat Binge Helped Launder the World’s Biggest Cyberheist
For someone supposed to be laundering millions of dollars in stolen funds, with investigators from three countries scrambling to track the money, Ding Zhize was a surprisingly unhurried man. He&r...
Op-eds
Feds Suspect Russians Behind Cyber-Attacks on Power Plants
Russia is suspected to be behind recent hacker intrusions at American power plants, including at least one nuclear facility, two U.S. officials told NBC News. Investigators cannot defini...
Op-eds
New FDD Study: Securing American Interests: A New Era of Economic Power
(Washington, D.C., Feb. 6, 2017) – North Korea’s growing use of offensive cyber capabilities to t...
Press Releases
U.S. Treasury Department Veteran Daniel Glaser Joins FDD’s Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance
(Washington, D.C., Feb. 6, 2017) – Daniel L. Glaser, a 20-year U.S. Treasury Department veteran who mos...
Press Releases
FDD’s CSIF Initiates New Project to Study Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare
(Washington, D.C., Dec. 16 2016) – Recognizing the significant gap in U.S. strategic thinking about how adversaries may use cyberattacks to disrupt the U.S. economy and threaten its nationa...