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New Atlanticist

Jun 28, 2017

Climate change revisited

By Gray Johnson

Rising sea levels, extreme weather patterns, and other examples of our warming climate pose life-altering threats to communities around the world. Ninety-seven percent of scientists have concluded that the climate is indeed warming—and that humans are playing a role. The question is not whether the climate is changing, but how to address it.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

NATOSource

Jun 27, 2017

NATO Holds its Peace as Relations with Turkey Degrade

By Arthur Beesley, Financial Times

Kjell Brygfjeld, a 67-year-old commercial lawyer in Stavanger, the oil capital of Norway, never expected the aftershocks from last July’s failed military coup in Turkey to reach his door.

Germany NATO

Report

Jun 27, 2017

Big Data: a twenty-first century arms race

By Atlantic Council and Thomson Reuters

We are living in a world awash in data. Accelerated interconnectivity, driven by the proliferation of internet-connected devices, has led to an explosion of data—big data.

Americas Cybersecurity

Issue Brief

Jun 22, 2017

Transforming India from a balancing to leading power

By Manish Tewari and Bharath Gopalaswamy

“It is vital for American interests in Asia to have India as an economic and strategic ally,” writes Bharath Gopalaswamy and former Minister Manish Tewari in “Transforming India from a Balancing to Leading Power,” a new brief from the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center. In the brief, the authors present policy recommendations for US policy […]

China India

Issue Brief

Jun 22, 2017

Transforming India from a balancing to leading power

By Bharath Gopalaswamy, Manish Tewari

In the brief, the authors present policy recommendations for US policy makers as a newly assertive India seeks to assume a leading role in Asia.

China India

Defense Industrialist

Jun 21, 2017

No, Senator, it’s not 90 percent.

By James Hasik

Senator John McCain of Arizona was rather tough on the administration’s nominee to be deputy defense secretary. The senator is simply incorrect about the concentration of supplier power in defense in the United States. The Pentagon’s five biggest supply accounts were awarded 27.8 percent of the gross value of its new contracts in 2014. None of these figures approach 90 percent.

Defense Industry Security & Defense

EconoGraphics

Jun 20, 2017

Balancing Act

By Samuel Weitzman

On June 12, in US President Donald J. Trump’s first full cabinet meeting, the new US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer briefly encapsulated the young administration’s philosophy on international trade: “Deficits do matter, and ours are coming down.” This is not a particularly partisan view; Trump’s opponent in the 2016 presidential election, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, spoke out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during her campaign despite supporting it previously.

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

Defense Industrialist

Jun 15, 2017

Is imported aluminum a threat to American national security?

By James Hasik

Indeed, price is the point. Whether by Chinese mercantilism or Canadian hydropower, the price of raw aluminum in the US has dropped about 20 percent in the past four years, benefiting American producers of automobiles, aircraft, and those trendy-again beer cans. So how is that not good?

Defense Industry Economy & Business
President Donald Trump, May 29, 2017

NATOSource

Jun 13, 2017

Trump’s Impromptu Commitment to Defend NATO Allies

By Paul Handley, AFP

US President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States remained committed to NATO’s mutual defense pledge, after he failed to endorse it in a speech in Brussels last month.

Central Europe NATO

NATOSource

Jun 9, 2017

Trump Discovers Article 5 After Disastrous NATO Visit

By Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy

At long last, U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed NATO’s bedrock collective defense clause, Article 5, in a press conference Friday. “Absolutely, I’d be committed to Article 5,” he said Friday

NATO Security & Defense

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