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Feb 22, 2017

The United States Needs Europe and Vice-Versa

By Lu Ding & Ole Moehr

The United States is the world’s largest recipient of global foreign direct investment (FDI). On a current-cost basis, the US FDI stock was more than three times larger than that of the second largest destination country in 2014, the most recent year from which statistics are available. Despite the current fragile global economy and great political uncertainty, foreign investment in the United States remains strong.

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Feb 21, 2017

Stein Joins Medyascope TV to Discuss US and Turkish Interests in Northern Syria

By Aaron Stein

Watch full interview.

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Feb 21, 2017

Trump Says He is a Fan of NATO, but Allies Not Paying Their Bills

By Donald Trump, Vox

The tired echoes of yesterday’s fights. We’re fighting battles that no longer help us. We’re fighting battles that other people aren’t treating us fairly in the fight.

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Feb 17, 2017

Mattis: NATO is “is Under Threat on Multiple Fronts”

By Jim Mattis, Department of State

I just completed the defense ministerial, where I had the opportunity to engage in a bilateral discussion as well with a number of our fellow ministers, in there.  We all took part in a dinner last night, reaffirming our strong transatlantic bond

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Feb 15, 2017

Russia’s Violation of Missile Treaty is a Major Foreign Policy Challenge for Trump

By Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy

While the White House reeled from a scandal that forced the resignation of National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, reports emerged on Tuesday that Russia deployed recently-developed cruise missiles

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Feb 14, 2017

A New Deal for NATO? Making the Alliance Indispensable in the Trump Era

By Alexander Vershbow

America’s NATO allies have been breathing easier in recent weeks.

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Feb 14, 2017

Russian Cruise Missile, Deployed Secretly, Violates Treaty, Officials Say

By Michael R. Gordon, New York Times

Russia has secretly deployed a new cruise missile despite complaints from American officials that it violates a landmark arms control treaty

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Defense Industrialist

Feb 13, 2017

Make it so.

By James Hasik

Standing up a new military organization is hard institutional work, but work worth the effort over time. A proposal for a Space Force proposes short-term turmoil, but eventually better morale, stability, and focus after separation from the Air Force.

Defense Policy Space
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NATOSource

Feb 13, 2017

What Trump Doesn’t Get About NATO and Putin

By By Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal

So how will the West weather an American commander-in-chief who takes everything personally?

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Feb 13, 2017

Germany Says US Demand for More NATO Burden-Sharing is ‘Fair’

By Sabine Siebold, Reuters

The U.S. call for NATO partners to step up funding for the transatlantic alliance is “a fair demand,” German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday

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