Tag: USA

USA – The Use (and Abuse) of Executive Agreements. Session 2 of the Congressional Study Group (Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-use-and-abuse-of-executive-agreements/

USA – Economic Sanctions in the Age of Maximum Pressure. Session 4 of the Congressional Study Group (Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/economic-sanctions-in-the-age-of-maximum-pressure/

USA – Presidential War Powers. Session 1 of the Congressional Study Group (Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/presidential-war-powers/

USA – The Insurrection Act and Putting Troops on American Streets. Session 5 of the Congressional Study Group (Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-insurrection-act-and-putting-troops-on-american-streets/

USA – Trade and National Security Exceptionalism. Session 6 of the Congressional Study Group (Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/trade-and-national-security-exceptionalism/

USA – Congress and Control of the Military. Session 7 of the Congressional Study Group (Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/congress-and-control-of-the-military/

USA – Transparency and War Powers. Session 8 of the Congressional Study Group (Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/transparency-and-war-powers/

USA/SYRIA/RUSSIA – Reframing US Syria policy: The road to Damascus runs through Moscow (Daniel L. Magruder Jr. and Rodrick H. McHaty, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/reframing-us-syria-policy-the-road-to-damascus-runs-through-moscow/

USA/GULF/IRAN – US bombers fly over the Gulf amid tensions with Iran (Al Jazeera)

The United States flew strategic bombers over the Gulf on Wednesday for the second time this month, in what Washington says is a show...

USA/FRANCE/GERMANY – US imposes new tariffs on French, German products amid ongoing Airbus-Boeing feud (Al Arabiya)

The United States announced Wednesday that it will impose additional tariffs on French and German products as part of a long-running dispute over subsidies...

USA/TAIWAN/CHINA – US warships sail through Taiwan Strait, prompting Chinese anger at ‘show of force’ (Al Arabiya)

Two US warships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday drawing protest from Beijing, the second such mission this month and coming almost...

USA/INTELLIGENCE – An Intelligence Agenda for a New Administration (Belfer Center)

America’s Intelligence Community (IC) faces a daunting array of traditional national security challenges. Terrorism remains a persistent global problem in form of Islamic extremism...

USA – First 100 Days: Mapping Policy Priorities for the Biden Administration (Belfer Center)

As a new presidential administration prepares to take office, we asked Belfer Center experts: In your issue area, what one policy step would you advise the...

USA/IRAQ/UN – Trump’s Blackwater pardons ‘an affront to justice’: UN experts (Al Arabiya)

US President Donald Trump’s pardons of four Blackwater contractors convicted of killing civilians in a 2007 Baghdad massacre is a violation of US obligations...

USA/CHINA – A Messy Financial Divorce for the US and China (George Magnus, Project-Syndicate)

Even as official financial decoupling progresses, US and other financial firms are – with China’s blessing – building asset management, securities, life insurance, fintech,...

ISRAEL/PALESTINE/USA – Can Israel-Palestinian Negotiations Begin when Joe Biden Takes Office? (Pinhas Inbari, JCPA)

https://jcpa.org/can-israel-palestinian-negotiations-begin-when-joe-biden-takes-office/