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Moving think tanks beyond the Beltway
In The News
For the next two months, as official Washington empties out into the hinterlands, D.C.-based think tanks should do the same. While members of Congress and their staffs switch ...
By Julianne Smith
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Trump Shakes Up World Stage in Break With U.S. Allies
In The News
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?
In The News
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
In The News
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?
In The News
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”
In The News
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?
In The News
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
In The News
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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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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Trump's firings signal hawkish turn on North Korea and Iran
In The News
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
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Deep Dish: What to make of the Munich (In)Security Conference
Each year, international security and defense chiefs meet at the Munich Security Conference for intense debate about global security challenges. The Washington Post's Josh Rog...
By Julianne Smith
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Tillerson Can’t Fix What Ails U.S. Ties With Turkey
The Trump administration appears to have pulled relations with NATO ally Turkey away from a “crisis point” after a slew of high-level meetings over the past week. But sharp di...
By Julianne Smith
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Britain’s BFF unconvinced by its post-Brexit vision
WASHINGTON — If the U.K. wants to woo America with tech, it needs to get its story straight. Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who departs for Silicon Valley Tuesday, is the latest i...
By Julianne Smith
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Trump’s Shadow Hangs Over NATO
When generals and diplomats gather for Europe’s most important security conference in Munich next month, President Donald Trump will not be in the room. But the U.S. president...
By Julianne Smith
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Glee in London over Trump’s scrapped visit — but also unease about U.S.-British ties
LONDON — President Trump’s cancellation of a possible trip to the British capital next month inspired glee and concern Friday, while raising new questions about the strained r...
By Julianne Smith
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Trump Channels Obama on Iran, North Korea
The White House on Thursday was poised to renew sanctions relief for Iran after a day earlier reacting with cautious optimism to the possibility of eventual talks with North K...
By Julianne Smith
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Analysis: How Trump's 'nuclear button' tweet could jeopardize his foreign policy
WASHINGTON – President Trump's critics say his Twitter diplomacy is bad enough – but nuclear diplomacy by tweet could have explosive consequences. A Tuesday night post all bu...
By Julianne Smith
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Donald Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously
When President Donald Trump sat down for dinner on September 18 in New York with leaders of four Latin American countries on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General...
By Julianne Smith
