Repairing the U.S.-Israel Relationship (Robert D. Blackwill, Philip H. Gordon, Council on Foreign Relations)

http://www.cfr.org/israel/repairing-us-israel-relationship/p38484

China's Strategy for Asia: Maximize Power, Replace America (Robert D. Blackwill, The National Interest)

China’s primary strategic goal in contemporary times has been the accumulation of “comprehensive national power.” This pursuit of power in all its dimensions—economic, military, technological and diplomatic—is driven by the conviction that China, a great civilization undone by the hostility of others, could never attain its destiny unless it amassed the power necessary to ward off the hostility of those opposed to this quest

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chinas-strategy-asia-maximize-power-replace-america-16359

Xi Jinping on the Global Stage (Robert D. Blackwill, CFR)

In light of China's deepening economic slowdown, "China's foreign policy may well be driven increasingly by the risk of domestic political instability," write Robert D. Blackwill,Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Kurt M. Campbell, the Asia Group's chairman and chief executive officer, in a new Council Special Report. "Economic growth and nationalism have for decades been the two founts of legitimacy for the Communist Party, and as the former wanes, [Chinese leader Xi Jinping] will likely rely increasingly on the latter."

http://www.cfr.org/china/xi-jinping-global-stage/p37569