Juan Zarate

Axis of Aggressors

A Gameplan for American Economic Security:

Supercharging U.S. Statecraft, from an Economic Pentagon to the Near-Global Economy

American Economic and Financial Power and the Iran File

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How Trump Could Use Tariffs to Attract Investment

The administration already has a blueprint—and now needs to make it work.

Ruble Rumble

Offensive and Defensive Measures to Defeat Russia in the Economic Domain

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.)...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

SWIFT Sanctions: Frequently Asked Questions