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As Russians describe ‘verbal agreements’ at summit, U.S. officials scramble for clarity
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Two days after President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials offered a string of assertions about what the two leaders had achieved. “Impo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Higher NATO Defense Spending May Not Help U.S. Contractors
President Donald Trump emerged from the NATO summit in Brussels touting a renewed commitment from members to increase their defense spending, but U.S. defense firms might want...
By Rachel Rizzo
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After being called ‘aggressive’ by Trump, Montenegro insists it’s a friend to America
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Earlier this week, President Trump identified a seemingly unlikely threat to world security: Montenegro, a tiny Balkan country of just over 600,000 people. Montenegrins, Trump...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Back to 1648: The Treaty of Westphalia
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If the current global order is being upended, what will replace it? We are getting a clue in the actions of western leaders and their allies, whose posture suggests a turn bac...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump has wanted a summit with Putin for months. He finally got it.
It’s official: President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 17 days — making America’s allies even more nervous about the growing closeness betwee...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Europeans Are Bracing Themselves For A Possible Trump–Putin Meeting
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European governments, already nervous for what next month’s NATO summit could hold, have been thrown for yet another loop: President Donald Trump is reportedly set to meet wit...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Trump Shakes Up World Stage in Break With U.S. Allies
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Rarely has President Trump’s role as a disrupter on the world stage been starker. At a moment of tumult over trade and nuclear security, he is shaking up the international ord...
By Julianne Smith
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Can the U.S.-Europe Alliance Survive Trump?
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Fifteen years ago, it was the Iraq War that divided Europe and the United States. Five years ago, it was the awkward revelation that the U.S. had been eavesdropping on the Ger...
By Julianne Smith
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Pompeo faces a hiring obstacle course
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Having secured his own job as secretary of state, Mike Pompeo faces a tough new question: Who can he get to work for him? Pompeo has inherited an unusual number of vacancies a...
By Julianne Smith
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Can Obama’s National Security Braintrust Get Elected in the Age of Trump?
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When the Democratic Party opened its first small campaign office in congressional candidate Andy Kim’s suburban New Jersey district, he and his team expected a modest turnout....
By Julianne Smith
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How Jim Mattis Became Trump’s “Last Man Standing”
Last Tuesday, after waking up to tweet about the previous day’s F.B.I. raid on his lawyer’s office (“a total witch hunt!!!”), President Trump called one of his outside Republi...
By Julianne Smith
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Has Democracy Lost Its Appeal?
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The lead package of the May/June 2018 issue of Foreign Affairs is on democracy. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of experts for their take. As with...
By Richard Fontaine & Julianne Smith
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Syria provides John Bolton with first test as Trump's national security adviser
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As Donald Trump warned on Monday of an imminent US military response to chemical weapons use in Syria, the new head of his national security team was sitting directly behind h...
By Julianne Smith
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Putin just kicked out 150 Western diplomats. What comes next could be much worse
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The Trump administration and its allies around the world expelled hundreds of Russian diplomats earlier this week after a former double agent was poisoned in the UK by operati...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Russia Promises Retaliation After Western Expulsions
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On Monday, the United States, 14 European Union countries, Canada, and Ukraine expelled Russian diplomats in a coordinated response to the poisoning of former Russian spy Serg...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Trump’s national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin. He did it anyway.
President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers Tuesday when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his reelection — includ...
By Julianne Smith
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The British government says Russia poisoned an ex-spy in the UK. Now London is striking back
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May said her country will expel 23 Russian diplomats on Wednesday — which would be the country’s largest removal of foreign officials in more than 30...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Trump's firings signal hawkish turn on North Korea and Iran
The end, when it comes to a job in the Trump administration, can be messy and brutal. The secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, was fired while returning from a gruelling Africa ...
By Julianne Smith
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Julianne Smith on Channel 4 News: Rex Tillerson Departure
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Julianne Smith, who was deputy national security adviser to former vice president Joe Biden, discusses Rex Tillerson’s firing and his replacement by Mike Pompeo.Watch the full...
By Julianne Smith
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Malaise in Munich
Julie Smith, Director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, shares her first-hand views of the Munich Security Conference this past ...
By Julianne Smith
