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Nov 24, 2015

Ullman on Turkey’s Downing of Russian Plane

By Harlan Ullman

Atlantic Council Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman joins The Leslie Marshall Show to discuss President Obama’s meeting with French President Francois Hollande and Turkey’s downing of a Russian plane:

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Nov 23, 2015

Hellyer: What the Paris Attacks Should Now Teach Us

By H.A. Hellyer

Rafik Hariri Center Nonresident Senior Fellow H.A. Hellyer writes for Al Arabiya on the lessons taht should be taken away from the Paris attacks and the responses that should follow:

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Nov 23, 2015

Lightfoot on President Hollande Meeting with Obama

By Jeffrey Lightfoot

Roll Call quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Jeffrey Lightfoot on the topics President Hollande of France is most likley to discuss with President Obama during their meeting in the wake of the terrorist attacks on Paris:

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Nov 21, 2015

Lightfoot on Unity After Paris Attacks

By Jeffrey Lightfoot

The Los Angeles Times quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Jeffrey Lightfoot on France’s approach to ISIS and their hope for international partnership after the attacks on Paris:

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Nov 20, 2015

Ashooh on Paris Attacks

By Jessica Ashooh

Middle East Strategy Task Force Deputy Director Jessica Ashooh joins Voice of America to discuss the implications of the terrorist attcks in Paris:

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New Atlanticist

Nov 20, 2015

Shutting the Door on Migrants the ‘Worst Solution’

By Ashish Kumar Sen

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy says Europe, United States must welcome Syrians fleeing war Closing the door to migrants fleeing the war in Syria after attacks in Paris would be the “worst solution,” Bernard-Henri Lévy, a French philosopher and best-selling author, said at the Atlantic Council on Nov. 19. “Even if it is proved that some […]

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Defense Industrialist

Nov 19, 2015

The Mistral will follow you

By James Hasik

Egypt’s procurement of helicopter carriers is truly strategic. As I wrote the other day, the Al-Baghdadi Gang has truly found tragic ways to combine brutality with stupidity. Attacking Russia and France in the same month, as Robert Pape of the University of Chicago wrote in the Boston Globe, is clearly an indication of desperation. Dealing with […]

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Secretary of State John Kerry, Nov. 12, 2015

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Nov 19, 2015

Kerry Reaffirms: Assad Must Go

By Department of State

Secretary of State John Kerry interview with David Pujadas of France 2.

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French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, Nov. 17, 2015

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Nov 18, 2015

Le Drian Tells EU Defense Ministers: ‘France Cannot Do Everything’

By Reuters, AP, and Wall Street Journal

From Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold, Reuters:  France invoked the European Union’s mutual assistance clause for the first time on Tuesday, asking its partners for military help and other aid in missions in the Middle East and Africa after the Paris attacks.

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Nov 18, 2015

Sloan: NATO and the Paris Attacks: Why There Will Not Be an Article V Response

By Stanley Sloan

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Stanley R. Sloan writes for War on the Rocks on how the actual wording of NATO’s Article V provides a significant degree of latitude in how allied nations could respond, even if it is invoked:

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