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Boris Johnson Needs Help From Trump, but Not Too Much
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, known for his bombast and outspokenness, began his first foreign trip as leader on Wednesday walking a daunting diplomatic tightrope, ...
By Julianne Smith
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Expert Opposition to Turkey Acquiring S-400
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“Turkey's decision to purchase S-400s from Russia is an unfortunate decision that will only weaken NATO unity and interoperability and leave Turkey isolated from its closest a...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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‘Utterly Distasteful’: Donald Trump Meeting With Anti-Semitic Hungarian Leader Slammed by Former White House Adviser
A meeting today between President Donald Trump and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been deemed “utterly distasteful” by a former White House adviser in light of the ...
By Julianne Smith
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Germany’s search for a new diplomatic map
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Razed to the ground by the Wehrmacht in 1944, Warsaw has never been easy terrain for the foreign minister of Germany. As his convoy speeds through the Polish capital, Heiko Ma...
By Julianne Smith
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Obama Evokes Nostalgia in Germany, but Message Focuses on Future Struggles
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The man whom Chancellor Angela Merkel calls “dear Barack” was back in Berlin on Saturday, his lanky figure and easy smile a reminder for Germans of a different era that ended ...
By Julianne Smith
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With Trump, NATO Chief Tries to Navigate Spending Minefields
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He flew across the ocean to celebrate NATO’s 70th anniversary with the largest and most important member of the military alliance. So to outsiders it appeared to be an awkward...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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German Defense Spending Is Falling Even Shorter. The U.S. Isn’t Happy.
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Germany, which had already announced that it will fall significantly short of NATO’s defense spending goals, annoying the United States, risks provoking Washington further by ...
By Julianne Smith
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The un-diplomat
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Richard Grenell arrived in the German capital as Donald Trump’s ambassador last year with a reputation as a diplomatic bad boy. A Fox News commentator and former aide to John ...
By Julianne Smith
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Moving think tanks beyond the Beltway
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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
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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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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
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
