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• Transatlantic Security

  Trump Should Urge Europe to Resist Putin’s Pipeline Politics

  President Donald Trump may not have an agenda to guide his huddle with Russian President Putin on the margins of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, but the G20 does. Unfortun...

  By Jim Townsend

  • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • July 7, 2017

• Transatlantic Security

  NATO Prepares to Be Disappointed by the Cheshire Cat President

  The hysteria that now surrounds the Donald Trump presidency has blown the NATO mini-summit out of the water. Allies who once were looking forward to Thursday’s summit for reas...

  By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend

  • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • May 24, 2017

• Transatlantic Security

  NATO Allies Should Not Be Judged on Defense Spending Alone

  Last week, President Donald Trump embarked on his first big wave of foreign travel since his January inauguration. For Europe-watchers, the most anticipated event during this ...

  By Jim Townsend & Rachel Rizzo

  • Commentary
  • May 23, 2017

• Defense / Transatlantic Security

  It's not just Europe: The DoD has a lot riding on the French elections, too

  It is not just Europe and the European Union that have something at stake in the outcome of the French elections. One of French President François Hollande’s legacies is the c...

  By Jacqueline Ramos & Jim Townsend

  • Commentary
  • Defense News
  • April 26, 2017

• Transatlantic Security

  For Tillerson, Showing Up at NATO Isn’t Enough

  Bowing to outside pressure, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to attend his first meeting with NATO’s foreign ministers on Friday. But that was not his initial plan. Sch...

  By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend

  • Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • March 31, 2017