Juan Zarate

September 30, 2022 | Juan C. Zarate |

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...

June 17, 2022 | Juan C. Zarate, Sarah Watson

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...

September 10, 2021 | Juan C. Zarate |

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

January 27, 2021 | Dennis Ross, Juan C. Zarate

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...

July 22, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

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...

May 18, 2020 | Juan C. Zarate, Tim Maurer

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.)...

April 17, 2020 | Eric B. Lorber, Jonathan Schanzer

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...

September 3, 2019 | |

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...

July 11, 2019 | |

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,...

January 31, 2019 |

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

January 9, 2019 | Eric B. Lorber

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...

August 3, 2017 | Juan C. Zarate

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...

July 12, 2017 | Juan C. Zarate |

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...

February 6, 2017 |

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...

February 6, 2017 |

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...

December 16, 2016 | |

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...

September 23, 2016 | David Weinberg |

Fifteen years since pivotal executive order, STORM Act could help fight terror finance

Fifteen years ago today, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13224, the opening salvo in America&...

February 3, 2016 |

Anti-Money Laundering and Terror Finance Expert Joins FDD’s Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance

Washington, DC -- John Cassara, a 26-year federal intelligence and law enforcement veteran and expert o...

January 6, 2016 |

Economic Sanctions and Terror Finance Expert Joins FDD’s Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance

Washington, DC -- Eric B. Lorber, an expert on anti-money laundering policy and terror finance issues, has been named senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on...

November 20, 2015 | |

New Report Outlines Ways to Combat Islamic State’s Antiquities Trafficking

FDD Press Release