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Defense Industrialist

Dec 19, 2016

If found, please call 228-688-5877

By James Hasik

China’s stealing an American ocean glider won’t stop the world from making a whole lot more. In what Ankur Panda in the Diplomat termed an “exceptionally brazen and illegal move by Beijing,” the Chinese Navy this past week stole an American ocean glider. On Friday, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook announced that the Defense Department had contacted the Chinese government to […]

China Defense Industry

Trade in Action

Dec 14, 2016

TTIP&TRADE in Action – December 14, 2016

By Global Business & Economics Program

Check out the latest EconoGraphic from our team on the Italian Referendum and Italy’s economic issues that will impact its growth and stability.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia
NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller, Oct. 17, 2016

NATOSource

Dec 13, 2016

Trump Team Working to Remove Top NATO Official

By Josh Rogin, Washington Post

The incoming Trump administration is looking to get rid of the No. 2 official at NATO, an American nominated by President Obama whom most Republicans don’t trust.

NATO Security & Defense

Trade in Action

Dec 8, 2016

TTIP&TRADE in Action – December 8, 2016

By Global Business & Economics Program

President- Elect Trump and Europe : Want to learn more about EU-US Relations and Challenges for the Next US Administration? Check out this video of an event hosted by the EU delegation. 

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia
President-elect Donald Trump, Dec. 6, 2016

NATOSource

Dec 8, 2016

Donald Trump’s Position on the Use of US Military Power

By Donald Trump, C-SPAN

And finally, a commitment to only engage the use of military forces when it’s in the vital national security interest of the United States.

NATO Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Dec 8, 2016

Negotiating with the deal-guy-in-chief

By James Hasik

On surviving those UCAs, finding that $125 billion, and becoming the monopsonist’s apprentice. The mood at the Aerospace Industries Association luncheon this week, Tony Bertuca reported for Inside Defense, was grim. As AIA CEO Dave Melcher put it, it’s a “relatively new phenomenon” for the president-elect to call out the country’s largest aerospace company on a big program like the new Air […]

Defense Industry Economy & Business
Secretary of State John Kerry at NATO headquarters, Dec. 6, 2016

NATOSource

Dec 6, 2016

John Kerry: US ‘Commitment to NATO and to Article 5 Transcends Politics’

By John Kerry, Department of State

SECRETARY KERRY: I make the point today and I made the point to my colleagues that the change of an administration in the United States will not change the unwavering commitment of the United States to these ideals or to our NATO obligations.

NATO Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Dec 6, 2016

Innovation before scale

By Steve Grundman, James Hasik

A better business model for transnational armaments cooperation The Royal United Services Institution has just published in RUSI Journal (vol. 161, no. 5, October–November 2016) the latest long essay of the Defense Industrialist project of the Atlantic Council. The abstract encapsulates our argument:     The traditional business model of transnational cooperation in armaments development and production is not […]

Defense Industry Economy & Business

Report

Dec 6, 2016

Evaluating Western Sanctions on Russia

By Sergey Aleksashenko

It has been more than two years since the European Union (EU) and the United States imposed economic sanctions on Russia for its aggression in Ukraine. For some of the measures that is time enough to evaluate effectiveness. “The sanctions’ greatest achievement is that they have been an important demonstration of transatlantic unity. Still, there […]

Conflict Defense Policy
US Permanent Representative to NATO Ambassador Douglas Lute, December 5, 2016

NATOSource

Dec 5, 2016

US Briefed NATO Allies on Foreign Hacking of the DNC

By Douglas Lute, US Mission to NATO

Ambassador Lute: [B]efore we were asked, we briefed the [North Atlantic] Council. So we brought experts from Washington and briefed on our national experience with regard to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee

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