United States and Canada

The United States has enjoyed an unparalleled period of peace and prosperity since the end of the Second World War, due to its construction of a rules-based international order and maintenance of close alliances and partnerships. Canada has been a key partner for the United States, both due to their close economic links and their shared border, the world’s longest at 5,525 miles. Canada is also a key NATO ally for the United States and is active in international diplomacy around the world.

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Sep 24, 2012

Iraq ‘must stop’ allowing Iranian arms shipments to Syria

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  Baghdad is showing a distressing willingness to side with the region’s most repressive regimes, not just Iran but also Iran’s chief ally, the brutal Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. In recent months, the United States has accused Iraq of allowing Iran to fly weapons through its airspace to […]

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Sep 22, 2012

NATO SecGen honors ‘service men and women who embody and reaffirm’ the transatlantic bond

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  As I’m here as Secretary General of NATO, please allow me to use this occasion to express my deep gratitude to everyone in the American armed forces.

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Sep 22, 2012

Turkey’s miscarriage of justice

By Dani Rodrik, Washington Post

From Dani Rodrik, Washington Post:  After a patently sham trial, a Turkish court on Friday handed down lengthy jail sentences to more than 300 military officers convicted of planning a coup, code-named Sledgehammer, in 2003.

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Sep 21, 2012

State Department’s Top Ten Answers on International Law in Cyberspace

By Harold Hongju Koh, Department of State

From Harold Hongju Koh, Department of State:  Everyone here knows that cyberspace presents new opportunities and new challenges for the United States in every foreign policy realm, including national defense.

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Sep 21, 2012

Report: Iran behind “significant and ongoing” cyber attacks against U.S. financial institutions

By Robert Windrem and Jim  Miklaszewsk, NBC News

From Robert Windrem and Jim  Miklaszewsk, NBC News:  National security officials told NBC News that the continuing cyber attacks this week that slowed the websites of JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are being carried out by the government of Iran.

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Sep 21, 2012

China tells EU to end arms ban

By Andrew Rettman, EUobserver

From Andrew Rettman, EUobserver:  Chinese leader Wen Jiabao has bluntly told the EU to drop its ban on arms sales. He made the call in his opening remarks to top EU officials Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso at a summit in a stately home in Brussels on Thursday (20 September). "I have to […]

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Sep 21, 2012

GALLUP: 95% of Libyans want militias disarmed immediately

By Jay Loschky, GALLUP

From Jay Loschky, GALLUP: Nearly all Libyans (95%) surveyed early this spring, before Tuesday’s deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, agreed that local militias should be required to hand in their weapons to authorities immediately.

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Sep 21, 2012

Is it time to get NATO more active on the Syrian situation?

By Butch Bracknell, Best Defense

From Butch Bracknell, Best Defense:  One possible first step toward NATO taking decisive action in this crisis is to ask Turkey for permission to set up a command and control structure in Turkey aboard an American or Turkish airbase.

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Sep 20, 2012

Assistant SecState Gordon: ‘Central Europeans living up to their commitments as allies’

By Philip H. Gordon, Department of State

From Philip H. Gordon, Department of State:  Just consider the immense challenges we are confronting: an economic crisis that has hurt people on both sides of the Atlantic, the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, and a new wave of democratic reform and unrest across the Middle East and North Africa. Some in Central Europe may […]

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Sep 20, 2012

Intell Report: Iranian planes carrying personnel and weapons to Syria via Iraq ‘on an almost daily basis’

By Louis Charbonneau, Reuters

From Louis Charbonneau, Reuters:  Iran has been using civilian aircraft to fly military personnel and large quantities of weapons across Iraqi airspace to Syria to aid President Bashar al-Assad

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