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Trade in Action

Jun 18, 2013

Advancing Transatlantic Trade

By Garrett Workman

Welcome to TTIP Action, a new blog aggregating the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). With President Obama in Europe for the G8 summit in Northern Ireland and a state visit to Berlin, and the official […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2013

Anniversary of de Gaulle’s June 18 Appeal to Free France

By Charles de Gaulle, Lehrman Institute

From Charles de Gaulle, Lehrman Institute: The leaders who, for many years, were at the head of French armies, have formed a government. This government, alleging our armies to be undone, agreed with the enemy to stop fighting. Of course, we were subdued by the mechanical, ground and air forces of the enemy. Infinitely more […]

United Kingdom

MENASource

Jun 18, 2013

Morsi’s Cheap Win on Syria

By Sarah Grebowski

It is a peculiar day for the Arab world when a political leader is accused of pandering simultaneously to the interests of the United States and ultraconservative sheikhs calling for global jihad. But strange bedfellows were made when Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi recently announced that Egypt would be “definitively” severing all diplomatic ties with the […]

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2013

Two Great Powers, No Real Leadership

By Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal

From Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal:  Twice in the 20th century, Germany tried to grab hegemony by bayonet and blitzkrieg, almost destroying itself and Europe in the process.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 18, 2013

Obama’s Confusing Syria Calculus

By Rajan Menon

There’s something morally perplexing about President Obama’s stance on the war in Syria. It’s not any clearer in its strategic logic.

Security & Defense Syria

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2013

US Ambassador: Consensus Rule in NATO ‘Unsustainable’ if Burden Sharing Remains ‘So Unequal’

By Ivo Daalder, U.S. Mission to NATO

From Ivo Daalder, U.S. Mission to NATO:  Recent trends in defense spending threaten NATO’s ability to confidently face a dangerous and unpredictable future.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 18, 2013

Dancing in the Streets

By Barbara Slavin

Finally, Iranians got the chance to party in the streets. The solid election victory on Friday of the least hard-line candidate — moderate cleric and former nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani — touched off spontaneous celebrations in the major squares and avenues of Tehran that authorities did not try to stop.

Iran Turkey

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2013

US and Russia Sign Cyber Security Pact

By White House

From White House:  The United States and the Russian Federation are creating a new working group, under the auspices of the Bilateral Presidential Commission, dedicated to assessing emerging ICT threats and proposing concrete joint measures to address them.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

MENASource

Jun 18, 2013

Top News: Zidan Promises More Military Aid for Benghazi

Prime Minister Ali Zidan held a security summit in Benghazi on Sunday aimed at boosting security in the city and support for army and police. 

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2013

Obama Should Call for German Leadership

By Jeff Lightfoot, National Interest

From Jeff Lightfoot, National Interest:  President Barack Obama should use his speech tomorrow at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to call for more active, confident German leadership of the European Union

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