Tag: USA

USA – Creating Lasting Change through Community Leadership (Urban Institute)

An old East Coast port city building community trust and redefining its image. A rural Kentucky county opening new doors for families. A Bay...

USA – A Monetary Mind at the Treasury (John B. Taylor, Project-Syndicate)

Former US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's forthcoming appointment to lead the Department of the Treasury is good news for advocates of rules-based monetary...

USA – Can Joe Biden’s America Be Trusted? (Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Project-Syndicate)

America's friends and allies have come to distrust it in the wake of Donald Trump's presidency. Joe Biden will do all that he can...

USA/CLIMATE CHANGE – How Biden and Kerry could rebuild America’s global climate leadership (Dolf Gielen, Morgan Bazilian, WEF)

Kerry’s decades of experience may give him a chance of making real progress. Image: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2TPD9I1RPI The Trump...

HONDURAS/USA – Honduras asks US to extend TPS for citizens after hurricanes (Al Jazeera)

Honduras asked the United States on Friday to prolong temporary migration protections for thousands of its citizens to mitigate the devastation of two recent...

USA/LATIN AMERICA – Biden Can’t Pick Up in Latin America Where Obama Left Off (Shannon K. O’Neil, Bloomberg, CFR)

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers a pre-Thanksgiving speech at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts With president-elect Joseph Biden so...

USA/CHINA – US cancels China-funded exchange programs, saying they are ‘propaganda tools’ (Lauren Holtmeier, Al Arabiya)

The US Department of State on Friday terminated five exchange programs with China that the US says were “propaganda tools” disguised as “cultural exchanges.” https://englishbeta.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2020/12/05/US-cancels-China-funded-exchange-programs-saying-they-are-propaganda-tools- Read...

USA/SOMALIA – Trump orders removal of ‘most’ personnel from Somalia: Pentagon (Al Arabiya)

President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of most US military and security personnel from Somalia, where they have been conducting operations against the...

USA/MEXICO – The upcoming friction in US-Mexico relations (Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/04/the-upcoming-friction-in-us-mexico-relations/

USA – Starting off on the right foot: Biden’s near-term arms control and strategic policy challenge (Frank A. Rose, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/04/starting-off-on-the-right-foot-bidens-near-term-arms-control-and-strategic-policy-challenge/

USA/MIDDLE EAST – Biden Administration should act fast to bolster people-to-people exchanges with the Middle East (Richard LeBaron and Dan Sreebny, Atlantic Council)

In the fall of 2016, the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Strategy Task Force (MEST), co-chaired by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and...

USA – Final NDAA Calls for the Establishment of a National Cyber Director (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)

ANDREA IZZOTTI/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Language calling for a national cyber director within the Executive Office of the President is included in a final 2021 National Defense Authorization...

USA – Acting TTS Director to Return to FDIC (Mila Jasper, Nextgov)

RENA SCHILD/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Bob DeLuca’s temporary detail directing Technology Transformation Services at the General Services Administration has come to an end, and GSA confirmed David Shive...

USA – Experts Call for Government to Designate Commercial Space Sector as Critical Infrastructure (Frank Konkel, Nextgov)

VADIM SADOVSKI/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Space experts Wednesday urged the federal government to classify certain space satellites, sensors and their command and control systems as critical infrastructure systems. The...

USA – CISA, FBI Warn that U.S. Think Tanks Are in Hackers’ Crosshairs (Heather Kuldell, Nextgov)

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI urged U.S. think tanks—particularly those focused on national security and international affairs—to take steps to...

USA – NIST Plans New Drone-Advancing Challenge Competition (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

Planning for a national challenge competition program to examine and advance a range of drone-centered capabilities and operations is in-the-works at the National Institute...