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Schieffer Series: 2020 Challenges Ahead
January 17, 2020 Please join us for the next installment of the Schieffer Series, “2020 Challenges Ahead.” As we step into the new year, CSIS experts Kathleen Hicks, Stephanie Segal and Sarah Ladislaw will join Beverly Kirk, Director of CSIS’s Smart Women Smart Power Initiative and Bob...

Blog Post
Energy and the U.S.-China Phase One Trade Deal—Don’t Believe the Hype... At Least Not All of It
January 17, 2020 | Sarah Ladislaw
From Energy Headlines Versus Trendlines

This week, the United States and China signed a so-called “phase one” trade deal to stop the escalation of tariffs that has precipitated since the start of the trade war in 2017.

Commentary
Enter USMCA and a New Trade Debate
January 17, 2020 | William Alan Reinsch, Jack Caporal The Scholl Chair unpacks what the USMCA passage and the continued clash among Democratic presidential candidates suggests about the next big trade policy debate.

Critical Questions
The Resignation of Russia's Government
January 17, 2020 | Jeffrey Mankoff, Cyrus Newlin CSIS’s Jeffrey Mankoff and Cyrus Newlin explore the implications of President Vladimir Putin’s annual address to the Federal Assembly and the subsequent resignation of his longtime ally, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Commentary
Bolsonaro's First Year: Balancing the Economy and Cultural Wars
January 17, 2020 | Scott B. MacDonald Looking ahead, President Bolsonaro’s report card is mixed. While he appears to have given the economy an important push out of recession, he stumbled badly on the environment, backtracked on his China policy, has jeopardized the EU-Mercosur trade deal, and tarnished his...

Commentary
Maduro Locked out Legislators-and Opened Door for Global Action for Democracy
January 17, 2020 | Mark L. Schneider Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro brazenly seized the country’s freely elected National Assembly last week, physically barring most elected legislators from entering the building. The move may have backfired.

Newsletter
The Evening: USMCA, Taliban, Cold Rain and More
January 16, 2020 This edition of CSIS's nightly newsletter covers the USMCA, Taliban, Cold Rain, Snow and More.

Transcript
Refreshing Transatlantic Trade Relations
January 16, 2020

The CSIS Scholl Chair is honored to be hosting Mr. Phil Hogan, European Commissioner for Trade, on his first official visit to Washington, DC in his new role.

Transcript
The 26th Annual U.S.-Japan Security Seminar: The U.S.-Japan Alliance at 60
January 16, 2020 The 26th Annual U.S.-Japan Security Seminar: The U.S.-Japan Alliance at 60

Commentary
Smoke Signals or Puff of Smoke?
January 16, 2020 | Lachlan Carey CSIS’s Lachlan Carey argues that bushfires alone won’t lead to decarbonization. We need to discard existing frameworks of growth tradeoffs and environmental externalities in favor of a new paradigm of system transitions, mass mobilization, and technological innovation.

Transcript
Stephenson Ocean Security Project Second Annual Ocean Security Forum: Keynote Address by Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA)
January 16, 2020 This year's event addressed human rights abuses in the global seafood industry and the expansion of China’s distant-water fishing fleet.

Report
Getting to Less? Exploring the Press for Less in America’s Defense Commitments
January 16, 2020 | Kathleen H. Hicks, Joseph Federici This CSIS brief from defense experts Kathleen H. Hicks and Joseph P. Federici is the first in a series that explores the contours and implications of strategies that might reduce the U.S. military’s role through greater constraints on its ends, ways, and means.

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