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Last week, the Biden administration released its new Conventional Arms Transfer (CAT) policy. The new CAT policy emphasizes human rights and strategic competition with China. In the latest installment of the Defense Rapid Reaction series, experts from MEI’s Defense & Security Program provide their views on what the new CAT policy means and how the historical tension between human rights and national security might play out in U.S. policy toward the Middle East.

Melissa Horvath is the Director of the International Trade Group at Commonwealth Trading Partners (CTP), Inc. where she leads a team executing support for an Army Security Cooperation (SC) workforce education program and DSCA-sponsored SC assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AM&E) services. She joined CTP with over 20 years of DoD planning, logistics, training, and SC experience and possesses exceptional Middle East expertise to include multiple deployments, multinational exercises, and p...