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New Atlanticist

Feb 2, 2017

On Iran Deal, Trump Should Leave Good Enough Alone

By Barbara Slavin

Since his election, US President Donald Trump has taken steps that harm the Iranian people by suspending visas to the United States. Trump has also adopted harsh rhetoric toward the Iranian government over missile tests and attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. So far, however, he has not carried out a threat to dismantle the landmark […]

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The Life of a Turkey

FutureSource

Feb 2, 2017

Predicting History

By Chris Ellis

Two plus two equals four. Math has a finality to it, a precision that yields a comfortable black and white. But economics at the state level is not purely math. Macroeconomics is the science that perfectly foresees the future of human activity … after the future has taken place. That is, it is a science that […]

New Atlanticist

Feb 2, 2017

Trump’s Foreign Policy Opportunities in South Asia

By Shuja Nawaz

Tighten your seat belts! South Asia, along with much of the rest of the world, should get ready for a more muscular, business-like, and unorthodox foreign policy under US President Donald Trump. His team of security and foreign policy experts, many of whom have unorthodox backgrounds and credentials, will help him implement a more personalized […]

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Feb 2, 2017

India Warily Watches Trump

By Maya Mirchandani

Americans may still be coming to terms with Donald Trump’s election victory, but more than 7,000 miles away, the wheels of India’s diplomatic machinery began turning soon after the November results. Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval both visited the United States within a month of the elections with the […]

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Danish Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen

NATOSource

Feb 2, 2017

Danish Intelligence Report Warns NATO Members of New Russian Cyberattacks

By Gerard O’Dwyer, Defense News

Russia has the willingness and capacity to launch serial cyberattacks against Denmark and any neighboring Nordic or Baltic state

Cybersecurity Intelligence

New Atlanticist

Feb 2, 2017

What Can India Expect from the New Abnormal in US Foreign Policy?

By Gaurav Kampani

Donald Trump’s election as the next president of the United States not only poses a threat to the American liberal-constitutional democratic order at home, but it also threatens to end the international liberal economic and democratic order that successive US administrations have built and promoted during and in the aftermath of the Cold War. The […]

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UkraineAlert

Feb 2, 2017

Why Trump Cannot Ignore Ukraine

By Adrian Karatnycky

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s telephone conversation on January 28 occurred amid widespread speculation that Trump would lift sanctions on Russia. While no such announcements were even hinted at, the contours of the emerging US-Russia dialogue will have momentous consequences for European security and for Ukraine. The official White House readout […]

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NATOSource

Feb 1, 2017

Mr. Trump, the Threat From Kaliningrad Is Real

By Jorge Benitez, Real Clear World

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been deploying more and more forces in a strategic piece of Russian territory that lies in a vulnerable area of NATO geography.

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UkraineAlert

Feb 1, 2017

Four Easy Ways the EU Can Support Ukraine

By Josh Cohen

Europe’s leadership seems to realize the challenge US President Donald Trump poses to the transatlantic alliance: German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently reminded Europe that “our fate is in our own hands,” while Guy Verhofstadt, president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, argues, “Europe must take its destiny and security in its own […]

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UkraineAlert

Feb 1, 2017

From Fake News to Fake Opinion

By Brian Mefford

A few weeks ago, a colleague asked why I was a part of an organization called the Center for Global Strategic Monitoring (also known as the CGS Monitor). Despite working in foreign policy for seventeen years, I had never heard of this organization. Imagine my surprise when I discovered my photograph and biography listed on […]

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