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New Atlanticist

Jan 26, 2017

Trump’s Wall Drives a Wedge Between the United States and Mexico

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald Trump’s demand that Mexico pay for a border wall has plunged the US-Mexico relationship into an unseemly crisis, according to two Latin America analysts at the Atlantic Council. “It is a troubling development for a relationship that has few parallels throughout the world,” said Peter Schechter, director of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne […]

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Trade in Action

Jan 26, 2017

TRADE in ACTION – January 26, 2017

By Global Business & Economics Program

This week in TRADEinACTION: President Trump abandons TPP and announces to renegotiate NAFTA, British  Supreme Court says Parliament must give Article 50 go-ahead, European Parliament’s trade committee endorses CETA, , and UK’s Theresa May to visit DC on Friday.

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In the News

Jan 25, 2017

Schechter Quoted by Politico on the Trump Administration’s Relationship with Mexico

By Peter Schechter

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In the News

Jan 22, 2017

Cohen Joins “Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” to Discuss US-Russia Relations and the Talks in Syria

By Ariel Cohen

Watch the full interview here.

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Defense Industrialist

Jan 21, 2017

The high beta presidency

By Steven Grundman

What does the Trump Administration portend for defense policy? I hew to the simple refrain, “Anything could happen.” Or, as an investor put it to me, “Trump’s promises to be the ‘high-beta’ presidency.” Beta is the measure of a stock’s volatility against the market as a whole, though the analogue to molecular biology and the treatment of hypertension may be equally apt. Of one thing we do know for sure: Donald Trump is a master of the political narrative, and the story about public policy counts far more than those of us with a deductive train of mind might care to admit.

Afghanistan Defense Industry

In the News

Jan 21, 2017

Murta in Folha de Sao Paulo: US-Latin America Relations in the Trump Administration

By Andrea Murta

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Latin America United States and Canada

Defense Industrialist

Jan 21, 2017

To get revolutionary in procurement, get radical on requirements

By James Hasik

In the US system, sketching out what the forces need is a task for military officers, upstream from the responsibilities of the under secretariat for AT&L. Ensuring they make sense and don’t excessively overlap amongst the services is supposed to be the job of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, which impanels the vice chairman of the joint chiefs and the vice chiefs of the individual services. However, in its 20-year history, the JROC has rarely seen a requirement it didn’t usher through the process with minimal change. In the long run, radically rethinking requirements requires radically rethinking the process of setting requirements. And that’s where the big money is to be found.

Afghanistan Defense Industry

In the News

Jan 19, 2017

Hof Joins the Axis to Discuss US and Russian Policy on Syria

By Frederic C. Hof

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Russia Syria

In the News

Jan 18, 2017

Mezran Quoted by the Daily Star on Russia, Libya, and the United States

By Karim Mezran

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Donald Trump, James Mattis, and Mike Pence, Nov. 20, 2016

NATOSource

Jan 18, 2017

Trump’s Cabinet Knows NATO is Important, But It’s Not Clear He Agrees

By Editorial Board of the Washington Post

CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY by Donald Trump’s national security nominees last week suggested that the incoming administration would not seek to dismantle the alliances that have undergirded the West — and U.S. global leadership — since 1945.

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