Subject: The Evening CSIS: Resignation, Death Toll Rising, Funk Aligns & More
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Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 22:51:37 +0000
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The Evening CSIS: Resignation, Death Toll Rising, Funk Aligns & More
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Welcome to The Evening CSIS—my daily guide to key insights CSIS brings to the events of the day plus HIGHLY RECOMMENDED content from around the world.  To subscribe, please send me an email at [email-masked] (mailto:[email-masked]) .

** Russia's Criticism
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Despite Russian criticism, NATO’s European missile defense system will go live today when a base in Romania becomes operational. Tomorrow, Poland is scheduled to break ground on its NATO missile-defense base, as the New York Times’s Steven Erlanger reports (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/world/europe/nato-russia-poland.html) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Olga Oliker today authored a new report, Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine:  What we Know, What we Don’t and What that Means (http://csis.org/publication/russias-nuclear-doctrine) .

** Resignation
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Ahmet Davutoglu has resigned as Turkey’s prime minister following failed talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan aimed at healing a damaging rift between the pair, as the Financial Times reports (https://next.ft.com/content/284333fa-12c1-11e6-91da-096d89bd2173) .

Dive Deeper: The Atlantic Council’s Aaron Stein today said that the events in Turkey represent “a steady march to authoritarianism” in an interview (http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/a-steady-march-to-authoritarianism-in-turkey) conducted on the Atlantic’s website.

And, Brookings’ Kemal Kirişci authored a new commentary today “Why is Turkey’s Davutoğlu getting skewered by his own party for the EU migrant deal? (http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/05/05-turkey-davutoglu-migrant-deal-kirisci) ”

** Death Toll Rising
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Air strikes on a camp housing Syrians uprooted by war killed 28 people near the Turkish border today, a number expected to rise, a monitoring group said, and fighting raged in parts of northern Syria despite a temporary deal to cease hostilities in the city of Aleppo, as Reuters reports (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-truce-idUSKCN0XW0C3) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Mark Cancian today authored a new report (http://defense360.csis.org/u-s-military-forces-fy-2017/ )  which indicates that the days of speculating about how low forces might be cut are over and that the debate has shifted to force expansion.

And, for the latest key CSIS defense analysis, visit our micro-website Defense 360 (http://defense360.csis.org/) .

** In that Number
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** 200,000
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The number of service members returning to civilian life every year. Source: WSJ op-ed by First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/05/op-ed-first-lady-michelle-obama-and-dr-jill-biden-veterans-job-skills) .

** Critical Quote
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** “You have now a political consensus in favor of strengthened defense among allies, and the US needs to remain engaged at this time to ensure that momentum continues. We turned a corner and we need to keep the engagement up to ensure that allies meet their commitments.
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—CSIS Europe Program deputy director Jeffrey Rathke on the challenges facing the new commander of US European Command.
Source: Defense News (http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/2016/05/04/eucom-scaparrotti-breedlove-change-command/83923038/) .

** One to Watch
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(Photo Credit: VICE NEWS.)
Avi Asher-Shapiro (@AASchapiro (https://twitter.com/AASchapiro) ) is a staff writer covering international affairs for Vice News. For news on conflicts around the world, Avi is one to watch (https://news.vice.com/contributor/avi-asher-schapiro) .

** Optics
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(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Former US Vice President Al Gore takes a selfie with a guest during the Climate Action 2016 Summit at the Willard Hotel, May 5, 2016 in Washington, DC.

** Highly Recommended
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CNN’s Jim Sciutto today took viewers on a rare tour (http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/05/05/uss-missouri-submarine-tv-package.cnn/video/playlists/military-technology/) inside a US Navy nuclear attack submarine, the USS Missouri.

Dive Deeper (no pun intended): CSIS’s new interactive micro-website ChinaPower (http://chinapower.csis.org/ssbn/) explores whether China has an effective sea-based nuclear deterrent.

** CSIS Today
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CSIS’s Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) hosted “U.S. Nuclear Policy Post-2016 Conference (http://csis.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=833ec271d60c6750d9c3baaac&id=dc9a22e13c&e=d556e146bd) .”

CSIS’s Middle East Program hosted “The Middle East at an Inflection Point with Lisa Anderson (http://csis.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=833ec271d60c6750d9c3baaac&id=5fae828f60&e=d556e146bd) ,” who served as the president of the American University in Cairo from 2011 to 2016.

** CSIS Next Week
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Next Tuesday, CSIS will host “Breaking ISIL’s Brand (http://csis.org/event/schieffer-series-breaking-isils-brand) ” with US under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs Richard Stengel, CFR’s Farah Pandith, and the New York Times’s David Sanger.

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join Brookings tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. for “Brexit—in or out? Implications of the United Kingdom’s referendum on EU membership (http://www.brookings.edu/events/2016/05/06-uk-eu-referendum-implications?rssid=UpcomingEvents&utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=FeedBlitzRss&utm_content=Brexit%E2%80%94in+or+out%3f+Implications+of+the+United+Kingdom%E2%80%99s+referendum+on+EU+membership) .”

** CSIS on Demand
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CSIS’s International Security Program hosted “Harbingers of Future War: Implications for the Army with Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster (https://youtu.be/nGuJ8fsmTGw) ” earlier this week.

** Sounds
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Listen to the latest episode of Foreign Policy’s The E.R. podcast, “Should Britain Stay, or Should It Go (http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/03/should-britain-stay-or-should-it-go/) ?”

** I Like It Like That
Eye-catching things in CSIS's orbit
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New study (http://www.journalism.org/2016/05/05/long-form-reading-shows-signs-of-life-in-our-mobile-news-world/) out today by the PEW Research Center shows that long-form articles get more than twice the engaged time of short-form articles on mobile devices, and they get about the same number of visitors. This is good for think tanks!

** Smiles
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Interesting things happen when the global forces in funk music align. That’s what happened when The Meters and the Red Hot Chili Peppers united in New Orleans in 2006 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYU7kZlArx4) . There were many smiles as a result.

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