External Commentary
Buying A Little Time On China Trade
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Mic Check with Dan Drezner
Mic Check with Washington Post columnist Dan Drezner – don't miss him at the Council on April 13 discussing how political polarization and heightened inequality have converged to create a new intellectual class.
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Global Affairs Take Center Stage as Trump Welcomes Chinese President
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Deep Dish: China And Trump- New Deals, Same North Korea
As President Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time, Council fellows Karl Friedhoff and Phil Levy preview the pressing issues likely to arise at their summit: economic relations and the ever-aggressive North Korea.
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Clerical Militia and Securitization of Seminary Schools in Iran
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This Week’s Reads – Food Security is National Security
When does food insecurity abroad affect national security at home? The two matters seem discrete. A crop failure is not a terrorist network. A drought is not a cyber-attack. This Week's Reads from Council President Ivo Daalder explore the ways in which food insecurity threatens America's strategic and national interests
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What Makes Cities Global
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Why the US Should Help Other Nations' Farmers
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Preserving Their Cool: The Nordic Countries Feel out the New Administration
Despite concerns about the Trump administration's early immigration, trade, and NATO policies, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden have been taking a “Nordic cool” approach to the new administration, patiently awaiting the full agenda of president Trump to take shape.