Category: Content Series

A JDAM for Human Rights

By James Hasik

Major Mariam al Mansouri’s exploits are an unintended benefit of a looser arms export regime.   Arms sales bear a bad reputation for mortgaging global political sensibilities to domestic economic interests. But as a diplomat in Washington reminded me over dinner last week, to have influence, one must be willing to talk. As sociologist Ori […]

Assimilating Disruption, or Offboarding Innovation?

By James Hasik

Big defense contractors’ reactions to start-ups may be more proactive than we suppose.   In a speech at the Air Force Association (AFA) meeting in Maryland last month, Chris Chadwick, CEO of Boeing Defense & Space, spoke of his company’s enthusiasm for incorporating innovative ideas into old products. In effect, he endorsed—as a CEO from Boeing just […]

Top News: Political Actors Call on Sisi to Release Revolutionary Youth for Eid

By EgyptSource

Abeer Suleiman, central committee member and campaign coordinator of the People’s Alliance, called on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to start a new page and release imprisoned youth bearing light charges.

An Important Week in Washington and Brussels as Round 7 Starts

By Global Business & Economics Program

There is a lot going on this week with regards to TTIP on both sides of the Atlantic. Yesterday, the European Parliament started their hearings to interview the nominees for the new Commission, beginning with Trade Commissioner-designate Cecilia Malmström. Hearings are scheduled to proceed until October 7, after which the European Parliament will vote to […]

Is the Armored Vehicle Industry Shifting Away from the United States?

By James Hasik

Russian threats and US economizing may be driving the business north and east.   Earlier this month, investors’ website the Motley Fool called the recently-announced alliance between France’s Nexter and Germany’s KMW the possible “birth of a European tank-building superpower” and “General Dynamics’ new challenger”. All the same, in a recent essay for the Lexington Institute, Dan Gouré argues that General […]

How to Stiff-Arm Transatlantic Economic Integration

By James Hasik

Rosa DeLauro’s HR 5581 is a very bad bill indeed.   Last week, the Wall Street Journal carried a long story—”German Firms Go on U.S. Buying Spree”—about the $70 billion they have spent this year acquiring businesses in the United States. That figure is second only to Canadian activity–another $77 billion so far—and indicates just how economies on […]

Get the latest on TTIP before next week’s 7th negotiating Round

Who’s Who & Who’s New? Now that incoming European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has announced his appointees for the next Commission, TTIP Action will introduce several of the new commissioners, their portfolios, and their role in the European Union over the course of the next several weeks. Today’s edition introduces Pierre Moscovici, the designated Commissioner […]

Three JLTVs, Three Strategies

By James Hasik

Different displays of similar vehicles reveal the structural heterogeneity of the defense industry.   At this week’s Modern Day Marine show at Quantico, the three companies vying for the US Army and Marine Corps’ Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) contract brought splashy displays. Walking the floor and reading the brochures, it was easy to see how […]