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150972
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Did the Obama administration have a grand strategy? If so, was it effective? Before Obama's presidency even ended, these questions were unleashing fusillades of contradictory commentary. Sympathetic observers credited Obama with a wise, well-integrated grand strategy that enhanced American power for “the long-game.”
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150973
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Donald J. Trump's election as the next President of the United States has thrown enormous doubt upon the continuity of American policy around the world. For the Middle East, Trump did not articulate a coherent policy during the campaign, but he has generally been highly critical of the Obama administration's management of the region. Trump's campaign sharply criticized the nuclear agreement with Iran, opposed intervention on behalf of rebels in Syria, criticized allies such as Saudi Arabia, and called for a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States.
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150977
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In May 2016, the United States killed Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour in the first drone strike ever in Pakistan's Baluchistan province. The Taliban has long used Baluchistan as a sanctuary, with top Taliban leaders based in the provincial capital of Quetta. Although Pakistan allowed drone strikes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), it did not permit them in Baluchistan. Since repairing relations after they cratered in 2011—following the May raid that eliminated Osama bin Laden, as well as a November border skirmish in which U.S.-led NATO forces operating in Afghanistan killed 24 Pakistani soldiers—U.S. and Pakistani officials have repeatedly claimed the bilateral relationship was on solid footing. The 2016 drone strike exploded this fiction.
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150979
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During his campaign, Donald Trump pledged a “very swift and decisive end” to nation-building if elected.
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150975
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On January 21, 2017, President Donald Trump and his new national security team will launch their foreign policy reviews. Along with China, Russia, and the Islamic State (IS), a review of U.S. policy toward Iran is sure to rank at the top of this list. Judging by what candidate Trump said, the Iran policy review could be quick and easy, and consist of one big change—tearing up the nuclear deal. On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly called that agreement, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
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150971
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The rise of President-elect, Donald J. Trump, and his unconventional policy remarks have inspired alarm across the political spectrum in the United States and throughout the world.
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150978
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In the last few years, the Islamic State, or IS, has become a central focus of public debates about U.S. national security. A May 2016 poll by the Pew Research Center reported that 80 percent of Americans think IS poses the greatest international threat to the United States.11. “Public Uncertain, Divided Over America's Place in the World,” Pew Research Center, May 5, 2016.
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150967
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China watchers are often obsessed with the prospects for regime change in that country. During the post-Mao period in China, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP, or simply the Party) has liberalized its control over the economy while protecting its monopoly on political power. Although an increasingly market economy may seem incompatible with a Leninist political system, this is the combination China's leaders have pursued for almost four decades.
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150970
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The rise, resilience, and unexpected triumph of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for President of the United States were not the result of an anomalous perfect storm, as some have claimed. A recent op-ed by Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute, for example, cites a study of financial crises over the past 140 years. It found that uncertainty spikes after financial crises, and that uncertainty often leads to political polarization.
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150969
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On July 14, 2015, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the international community, led by the United States and the European Union, signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) ensuring for the next 10–15 years that Iran's nuclear program was entirely peaceful. In the subsequent months, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verified that all signatories to the agreement had fulfilled their obligations. The deal allows Iran to retain a substantial portion of its nuclear infrastructure—specifically its ability to indigenously enrich uranium into fissile material, the material required in nuclear weapons.
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150965
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China was in the crosshairs of both U.S. presidential candidates this election season. Republican candidate Donald J. Trump pledged to put an end to Chinese trade policies that “rape” the U.S. economy, while Democratic candidate Hillary R. Clinton criticized China's record on human rights and island-building activities in the South China Sea.
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