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The United States' Greatest Strength Over Russia and China is Its Alliance with Europe
Commentary
President Donald Trump has rightly recognized that America must do more to stand up to Chinese and Russian threats to U.S. interests. While most agree that having a national s...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Julianne Smith
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Has the Transatlantic Alliance Been Irreparably Damaged?
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We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces dealing with the transatlantic relationship. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of e...
By Jim Townsend, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Richard Fontaine & Julianne Smith
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Angela Merkel Could Save Europe. Why Won’t She?
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Campaigning in the spring of 2017, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany declared at a packed beer hall in Bavaria that it was time for Europe to “take its destiny into its own ...
By Julianne Smith
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NATO in the Age of Trump
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Few NATO summits have captured the attention of this one—but for all the wrong reasons. On July 11, 29 heads of state and government will arrive at the new NATO headquarters b...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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The United States and Europe Still Need Each Other
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Talk to any long-standing observer of the trans-Atlantic relationship and you will hear that the United States and Europe are on a collision course. From climate change to the...
By Julianne Smith
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Wanted: Your views on foreign policy
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I grew up in Farmington, in the suburbs of Detroit. Since I left for college in 1987, I have spent most of my time in Washington and overseas working on foreign policy, partic...
By Julianne Smith
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Pompeo’s Iran Plan Is a Pipe Dream
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In the wake of President Donald Trump’s announcement this month that the United States would no longer implement the Iran nuclear deal, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monda...
By Julianne Smith
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Getting Out and About: Talking with Americans Beyond Washington About Their Place in the World
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On any given day in Washington, dozens of think tanks that work on national security issues are busy drafting policy memos, meeting with embassy staff and foreign visitors, te...
By Julianne Smith
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The Clock Is Already Ticking on Mike Pompeo
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Rex Tillerson’s humiliating end is hardly surprising. He’s been on life support for months: last summer, Washington buzzed with rumors of “Rexit,” and last November the White ...
By Julianne Smith & Derek Chollet
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Column: Toward a civil discourse on foreign policy
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Tampa Bay residents were surprised recently when Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his annual address, showed an animated video that had multiple warheads raining down on w...
By Julianne Smith
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Trump’s War on Europe Is Revving Up
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Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office just over a year ago, America’s relationship with the European Union has been little more than an afterthought. That shouldn’t be...
By Julianne Smith & Rachel Rizzo
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At the Munich Security Conference, the United States Lacked Bravery and Leadership
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“I’m counting on you to be brave.” That was U.S. Sen. John McCain’s message to the hundreds of participants at this month’s Munich Security Conference. The Arizona Republican,...
By Julianne Smith
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Frustrations at the White House and the Pentagon
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In early February, months-long tensions between the White House and the Pentagon over how to address North Korea spilled out into the public scene. As officials revealed to th...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Julianne Smith
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Bringing the national security debate beyond Washington
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Washingtonians who work on national security often pride themselves on how much they know about the world. Many of the nation’s top security experts speak foreign languages an...
By Julianne Smith
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'Across the Pond, In the Field': bringing U.S. foreign policy out of the Washington bubble
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Like many folks in the nation’s capital, I’m not originally from Washington. I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and return home to the Midwest at least a couple times every y...
By Julianne Smith
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Merkel Will Spend the Next Four Years Battling Forces at Home
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If you have attended a transatlantic conference in the past year — on any subject — you’ve no doubt encountered someone who opened his or her prepared remarks with, “Once we g...
By Julianne Smith
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Julianne Smith in The New York Times on Women in National Security
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I held the syringe up to the light above the bathroom mirror and flicked it a few times with my finger to make sure I had the exact dose of Lupron. I checked my watch to calcu...
By Julianne Smith
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How Men Should Help More Women Lead
There is a lack of women’s leadership in this country. In companies, Congress, Hollywood, tech and certainly in our field of national security, relatively few women have made ...
By Julianne Smith
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Julianne Smith in Financial Times on the Second Trump-Putin Meeting in Hamburg
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When news broke this week about President Donald Trump having a second, unreported meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7, some w...
By Julianne Smith
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‘No Specific Agenda’ Means Trump Will Get Played by Putin, Again
Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet for first time at the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7 and 8. While few oppose the two leaders meeting face to face, the me...
By Julianne Smith
