Results for “S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue”

…ear term as harvesting is in full swing. However, we think that demand is unlikely to drop as quickly as the USDA expects. According to the latest USDA grain stocks and WASDE reports, feed demand remained surprisingly resilient in 3Q12. To effectively ration demand, especially on...

…ent Xi Jinping’s book, The Governance of China; he provided live commentary on CNN for Xi’s policy address during his U.S. state visit (2015); and he introduced to foreign audiences Xi as “core” of the CPC (2016). He is interviewed extensively on US-China relations, including the...

…t that is bigger than France, bigger than Italy, bigger than Hungary, bigger than all that,” Bannon told French populists. Bannon showed that he “dominates the mood against the ‘elites,’ the ‘establishment’ and the ‘perverse system’ of greedy corporations and banks, and of cours...

…he River Jordan. Rest assured... our security should not — and will not — be compromised under any of these alternatives. Tough decisions must be taken; but it is possible. And as our sages teach us: “/f not now... when?” I strongly believe that this intertwined strategic tri...

…ght about by Libya’s supply cut and comes in response to Opec’s recent inability to formally endorse new supply increases. The IEA action is also an example of growing concern over higher oil prices in Washington, where the White House is managing political fallout from high gaso...

…tary policy is a good precondition for activity to pick up, but not a guarantee after so many rounds of monetary stimulus. We therefore look east to China. Although industrial activity growth in China is likely to bottom out, the upcoming leadership change in the country (Novembe...

…US Policy on Arab Revolutions TJP summary: Plenty of different opinions on what was done right and wrong. No consensus. Indyk: syria will spill into Bahrain and KSA (Saudi). We should have moved earlier. KSA is a BFD. Feaver (ex Bush): BO's obsession w anti Bush (especiall...

…r it appears, she declined to eat the apple from the knowledge tree) that was it. ada was at the bank but reviewing docs. carlyn was in the kitchen making mush ( abel and cain) books as they were mystersiously called was being kept soley by eileen, with little or no input ,corr...

…f its strategic position. While Israel can deal with local challenges effectively, it cannot deal with broader challenges. It lacks the economic or military weight to resist. Therefore, it is normally in the process of managing broader threats or collapsing because of them. The...

…te what I say.” He argued that he sometimes indulges the sensibilities of the PRC in order to get his deeper point across. As another analyst noted, “I avoid sensationalizing. Iam willing to be critical, but I try not to make attacks on Xi.” And different interviewees distinguish...

…epublican fundraiser Elliott Broidy sought to sell his influence with the Trump administration by offering to deliver U.S. government actions for foreign officials in exchange for tens of millions of dollars, according to three people familiar with the probe. As part of the inves...

…pens the door for same-sex couples to enjoy many tax-related benefits previously available only to opposite- sex couples.” DOMA’s operation in practice, Kennedy continued, was to treat same-sex marriages as second-class marriages for purposes of federal law “by imposing a syste...

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…us stream of communications intelligence about the United States in the late twentieth and early twenty-first cen- turies. Russia’s intelligence resources during this period were for- midable. They included geosynchronous satellites, listening stations in Cuba, sleeper agents, an...