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Feb 2, 2017

Farkas Joins MSNBC to Discuss President Trump’s Contacts with Russia and Saudi Arabia, and the National Security Council

By Evelyn Farkas

Watch full interview here.

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NATOSource

Feb 1, 2017

Mr. Trump, the Threat From Kaliningrad Is Real

By Jorge Benitez, Real Clear World

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been deploying more and more forces in a strategic piece of Russian territory that lies in a vulnerable area of NATO geography.

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NATOSource

Feb 1, 2017

Why Trump Should Strengthen America’s ‘French Connection’

By Leo Michel

What does the Trump Administration portend for U.S.-French relations on defense matters?

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New Atlanticist

Jan 30, 2017

Here’s Why the US-Mexico Energy Relationship is Important

By Robert F. Ichord, Jr.

While the US-Mexico relationship has been making headlines because of the political fallout from US President Donald Trump’s demand that Mexico pay for a border wall, it is important to consider Mexico’s role in global and regional energy markets as well as its energy relationship with the United States.  

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In the News

Jan 27, 2017

Castello-Catchot Quoted by El Pais on Teresa May’s Meeting with Trump:

By Carles Castelló-Catchot

Read full article here.

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Jan. 19, 2016

NATOSource

Jan 26, 2017

NATO Chief Confident Trump is Committed to the Alliance

By Jens Stoltenberg, NATO

One key element in that is to make sure that we have a strong transatlantic bond also in this new security environment

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Defense Industrialist

Jan 26, 2017

Keep that hiring freeze short

By James Hasik

Really reducing the Pentagon workforce will be a challenging task, because every office needs to be effectively searched for who’s not doing a great job, and who’s not doing a job that really needs to be done. It’s also an important job, because the layering-on of people and offices over the years has created a bureaucratic monster in which simple decisions can take months to effect. So here’s one bit of advice to the new administration, in the interests of efficient administration of defense. Make no small plans at the OMB. Get to work on that plan for eliminating the deadwood, the unimportant, and the sclerotic. Just don’t let this hiring freeze linger. Because until fresh hiring can resume, you’ll get none of the new talent you need.

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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 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.

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