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President Obama and Chancellor Merkel meet in Berlin

EUSource

Nov 18, 2016

Obama tries to allay EU allies’ concerns

By Future Europe Initiative

THIS WEEK’S KEY TAKE-AWAYS Obama tries to reassure European allies Europe moves to intensify defense cooperation Uncertainty clouds EU-Turkey relations

European Union International Organizations

Bremain vs Brexit

Nov 17, 2016

Westmacott in Time: Brexit Britain and Trump’s America Can Have a Special Relationship

By Peter Westmacott

Read the full article here.

United Kingdom

Defense Industrialist

Nov 15, 2016

Rethinking the business of defense

By James Hasik

Advice to the Trump Administration on bringing discipline to the defense enterprise At the conclusion of an unconventional but brilliant campaign, Donald Trump has effected, in terms he might appreciate, a hostile takeover of the executive branch of the United States federal government. In that campaign, he repeatedly promised to move swiftly towards administrative change, perhaps in a hundred-day campaign. […]

Defense Industry Defense Policy

Emerging Defense Challenges

Nov 15, 2016

A Robot Walks into a Bar: What’s Funny About the Future?

By Art of the Future

For all the tools available to policymakers concerned with understanding how life is going to change in expected and unexpected ways during the next two decades, the one that has yet to be used may be the most poignant and entertaining: comedy. In particular, satire, from the work of writer Mark Twain to the “newscasts” […]

President Obama meets president-elect Trump

EUSource

Nov 11, 2016

EU reacts to US election upset

By Future Europe Initiative

THIS WEEK’S KEY TAKE-AWAYS US election outcome sends shockwaves across Europe Google counters third EU antitrust charge EU, Turkey near accession talks break-up

European Union International Organizations

Defense Industrialist

Nov 11, 2016

Defense advice For President-elect Trump

By Steven Grundman

Focus on national productivity growth to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio. The US presidential election that just ended was driven by identity politics—affinity by race, class, gender, etc.— rather than ideological competition or policy differences. As a result, resolution of the political contest will not unto itself unlock the calcified debate over fiscal policy that has […]

Defense Policy Economy & Business

Captains of Industry Series

Nov 10, 2016

Corporate-Venture Investing in Aerospace & Defense

By Atlantic Council

Defense Industrialist

Nov 10, 2016

Big guns but no bullets?

By James Hasik

The US Navy has at least three options for fire support ashore, and should move out smartly with more than one. As James Holmes of the Naval War College wrote on The National Interest last month, “the US Navy has an image problem.” Perhaps, as Steven Wills of Ohio University (aka. Lazarus) argued in the comments, it’s merely that ships […]

Afghanistan Defense Industry

Event Recap

Nov 7, 2016

Is Islamic Law Compatible with Human Rights?

By Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East

On November 7, 2016, the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East hosted a panel discussion on the relationship between Islamic law and human rights. Geneive Abdo, director of the Atlantic Council’s Islamic Law and Human Rights initiative, moderated the panel with legal scholars Dr. Moataz El Fegiery, Protection Coordinator for the Middle […]

UK High Court

EUSource

Nov 4, 2016

UK court rules on Article 50; EU breaks CETA deadlock

By Future Europe Initiative

THIS WEEK’S KEY TAKE-AWAYS UK Court rules Article 50 must be approved by Parliament Uber faces employment challenge in the UK CETA deal signed after Wallonia agrees

European Union International Organizations

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