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Refugees
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Europe's Great Challenge: Integrating Syrian Refugees
Ernesto F. L. Amaral, Mahlet A. Woldetsadik, Gabriela Armenta
Apr 20, 2018
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
Since March, 2011, close to 1 million Syrian refugees have requested asylum in European countries, with Germany being the primary destination. Social and economic policies to deal with the refugee crisis will require collaborative planning, monitoring, and assessment efforts to be successful.
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Chemical Terrorism
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Arms Control Hostage to Skripal and Syria Attacks
William Courtney @courtneywmh
Apr 19, 2018
RealClearDefense
Two prominent poisoning assassination attempts and Kremlin denials of gas attacks by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad raise doubts about Moscow's commitment to the purposes of the Chemical Weapons Convention. Never has the future of negotiated arms control involving Russia been at greater risk.
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Chemical Weapons and Warfare
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A Norm in Crisis: Implications of Persistent Chemical Weapons Use
Natasha Lander
Apr 18, 2018
RealClearDefense
The international community should consider serious options to hold perpetrators of chemical attacks accountable and stop further attacks. These are not easy choices. But the alternative is accepting that long-held norms are crumbling, and humanity is sliding back to inhumane tools of war.
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International Diplomacy
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Why the U.S.-Japan Summit Matters
Jeffrey W. Hornung
Apr 17, 2018
CNN
After a year and half of relative stability, the The United States and Japan now must talk about difficult issues in which they have vested interests. As allies, and close friends, they could both benefit from reconfirming common goals and establishing a set of strategies to deal with challenges.
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Information Operations
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Political Warfare Is Back with a Vengeance
Raphael S. Cohen, Linda Robinson @RobinsonL100
Apr 13, 2018
The National Interest
The United States' principal adversaries are fighting and gaining ground by employing a host of tactics short of all-out war. This form of warfare, once called political warfare, is back with a vengeance, empowered by new tools and techniques.
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Turkey
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Turkey's Double Standard: How Ankara's Actions Contradict Its Claims of Opposing the Islamic State
Ahmet S. Yayla, Colin P. Clarke @ColinPClarke
Apr 13, 2018
Foreign Policy
Turkey wants to take credit for the demise of the Islamic State, insisting that Turkey's actions in northern Syria have helped lay the groundwork for a sustainable peace. But the evidence clearly suggests otherwise.
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Syria
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Conditioning American Withdrawal from Syria
James Dobbins @Jim_Dobbins, Jeffrey Martini
Apr 9, 2018
Al-Monitor
U.S. forces will soon withdraw from Syria, and the U.S. State Department put a hold on further stabilization assistance to areas liberated from the Islamic State. The U.S. and its partners should offer stabilization and reconstruction help, particularly in regions where much of the damage was the result of American-supported military operations.
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China
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To Protect Interests Abroad, China Will Feature a Diverse Array of Military, Non-Military Forces
Timothy R. Heath
Apr 9, 2018
The National Interest
As Beijing grapples with the realities of an economy increasingly susceptible to disruption from distant influences, experts debate how the Chinese military might protect overseas interests. Some have speculated that China may seek a military like that of the United States. Others have dismissed such a possibility.
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Civic Education
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People—Not the Tech Companies—Will Ultimately Stop Disinformation in Europe
Jennifer Kavanagh @jekavanagh, Stijn Hoorens @StijnHoorens
Apr 9, 2018
E!Sharp
Authorities can continue to seek to punish the tech companies for the circulation of false articles. But this is unlikely to make a difference until more people take the time and acquire the skills to distinguish between fact and fiction.
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Global Security
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Can Washington Successfully Prepare for the Future?
Andrew R. Hoehn, Andrew Parasiliti @ATParasiliti, Ali Wyne @Ali_Wyne
Apr 6, 2018
The National Interest
The impossibility of predicting the future does not remove the need to mull the uncertain. Policymakers should build in windows of time to think imaginatively about the pursuit of America's strategic objectives, and take a bird's-eye view of the role America can and should play in shaping an increasingly complex, chaotic world.
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Chemical Terrorism
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Hit Russia Where It Hurts: Take Away World Cup
Andrew Scobell
Apr 5, 2018
United Press International
After a chemical attack in Great Britain, U.K., U.S. and other governments responded unilaterally. But this crime cries out for a more collective response. Revoking Russia's right to host the World Cup tournament would be a powerful signal of global outrage and would hit Putin where it hurts.
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North Korea
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Preparing for U.S.-North Korea Talks: Insights from Researcher Bruce Bennett
Apr 5, 2018
Upon returning from his 114th trip to the Korean Peninsula, senior international/defense researcher Bruce Bennett offered his analysis of recent developments in North Korea and suggested strategies for putting pressure on Kim Jong-un at the negotiating table.
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Security Cooperation
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'Zero-sum' Approach to Defence and Security During Brexit Negotiations Risks a Less Secure UK and EU
Alexandra Hall, James Black
Apr 4, 2018
UK Ministry of Defence's 2018 Defence Suppliers Guidebook
It is in the interest of neither the UK nor the EU to have a 'zero sum' approach to defense and security during Brexit negotiations. Both sides have plenty to lose if it turns into a 'messy divorce.'
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Military Tactics
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China Welcomes Its Newest Armed Force: The Coast Guard
Lyle J. Morris @LyleJMorris
Apr 4, 2018
War on the Rocks
China's recent move to transfer responsibility for the China Coast Guard to the People's Armed Police will have major symbolic implications for China's presence in disputed waters. It can no longer claim its presence in the South China Sea is purely civilian in nature.
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Arms Proliferation and Control
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Iran: The Nuclear Agreement Will Survive, at Least for Now
Richard Charles Baffa @R_Baffa
Apr 4, 2018
The Hill
A U.S. unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal does not necessarily mean the deal will collapse. But a broader collapse of the agreement along with the imposition of harsh sanctions in the coming months could sharply escalate tensions with Iran.
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Russia
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Moscow Is Going Too Far
William Courtney @courtneywmh
Apr 3, 2018
The Hill
Russia has become more daring with the West with its retaliatory expulsions and may face a high price. An angered West could turn from expulsions to economic countermeasures.
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International Affairs

Europe's Great Challenge: Integrating Syrian Refugees

Arms Control Hostage to Skripal and Syria Attacks

A Norm in Crisis: Implications of Persistent Chemical Weapons Use

Why the U.S.-Japan Summit Matters

Political Warfare Is Back with a Vengeance

Turkey's Double Standard: How Ankara's Actions Contradict Its Claims of Opposing the Islamic State

Conditioning American Withdrawal from Syria

To Protect Interests Abroad, China Will Feature a Diverse Array of Military, Non-Military Forces

People—Not the Tech Companies—Will Ultimately Stop Disinformation in Europe

Can Washington Successfully Prepare for the Future?

Hit Russia Where It Hurts: Take Away World Cup

Preparing for U.S.-North Korea Talks: Insights from Researcher Bruce Bennett

'Zero-sum' Approach to Defence and Security During Brexit Negotiations Risks a Less Secure UK and EU

China Welcomes Its Newest Armed Force: The Coast Guard

Iran: The Nuclear Agreement Will Survive, at Least for Now

Moscow Is Going Too Far

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