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The Weekly GAB  Friday, November 18, 2016
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Transition 2016

POLITICO
Trump Will Honor NATO Commitment, Obama Says |

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Madeline Conway

President-elect Donald Trump is committed to NATO, President Barack
Obama said Monday. Trump, the Republican president-elect whose
unexpected victory last week shocked other world leaders, was often
critical of NATO on the campaign trail, going so far as to call it
"obsolete." Those statements, coupled with his praise of
Russian leader Vladimir Putin -- with whom Trump spoke by phone on
Monday -- have alarmed foreign leaders, especially in the front-line
states in Eastern Europe and the Baltics. Obama, who is preparing to
embark on his last trip to Europe as president, said Trump signaled
when they met last week that he would not be throwing out the
decades-old alliance.

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
America First?

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Lawrence J. Haas is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy
Council.

As President-elect Donald Trump walks back his most controversial
campaign pledges on such issues as immigration and trade, the most
important question is whether he'll do the same on the
all-encompassing issue of U.S. global leadership. At stake is nothing
less than the liberal international order  the military, diplomatic
and economic institutions, treaties and doctrines through which the
United States plays the leading role in ensuring global stability,
defending freedom and democracy and promoting prosperity.

RARE
Rand Paul: Will Donald Trump Betray Voters by Hiring John Bolton?

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Rand Paul serves in the U.S. Senate as a member of the Republican
Party representing Kentucky.

Rumors are that Donald Trump might pick John Bolton for Secretary of
State. Heaven forbid. One of the things I occasionally liked about the
President-elect was his opposition to the Iraq war and regime change.
He not only grasped the mistake of that war early, but also seemed to
fully understand how it disrupted the balance of power in the Middle
East and even emboldened Iran. We liberated Iraq, but today their best
friend is Iran, their second greatest ally is Russia, and their third
strongest alliance is with Syria.

NPR
Trump Takes Office at a Pivotal Moment for Foreign Aid |

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Nurith Aizenman

Donald Trump will take office at a pivotal time for the world's
neediest. The world's wealthy countries have, since 2000, been part of
a historic partnership with poor countries to eliminate poverty and
roll back diseases. Over the past 16 years millions were given access
to lifesaving HIV/AIDS and malaria treatments. From 1990 to 2015 the
number of people living in extreme poverty dropped by more than half
from 1.9 billion - or 47 percent of people in developing
countries - to 836 million, or 14 percent. And last year, world
leaders meeting at the United Nations committed to eliminating extreme
poverty altogether by 2030.

TIME
The Foreign Policy Hot Spots Facing Donald Trump |
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Massimo Calabresi

Nowhere does Donald Trump have more unilateral power than in his role
as Commander in Chief. And nowhere has he been more contradictory than
in his remarks about three global hot spots where regional stability
and American lives are at stake: Iran, Syria and North Korea. In
March, Trump told a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) that his "No. 1 priority" is to
"dismantle" the international deal that froze Iran's
nuclear program in exchange for the suspension of most sanctions
against the country.

Who's in the News

AMERICA'S TRADE POLICY

A Trade Agenda for President (elect) Trump  On China, NAFTA, TPP &
the "Benefit" Of A Trade War

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Bill Lane is the former Catepillar Senior Director of Global
Development & Corporate Affairs and serves as the Chairman Emeritus of
the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.

The question today is whether the U.S. should now pivot in the
opposite direction. As the election demonstrated, the politics of
trade is being challenged in ways we haven't experienced since
the 1930s. Today protectionist and isolationist rhetoric seem to again
be in fashion. Part of the problem is fear. Speak out in favor of
NAFTA or the Trans Pacific Partnership  or any of the other free trade
agreements  and one risked the wrath of Donald Trump and an eerie
silence from Secretary Clinton. Consequently, most of the traditional
business and agricultural champions of free trade cowered in the
political shadows.So, what do we need to do? Here's my take in
descending order: 1. Improve American competitiveness. 2.
Start/complete a WTO Round. 3. Aggressively defend and expand the free
trade agreements. 4. Aggressively defend and expand the free trade
agreements.

THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE
How Can the New US Administration Make Aid More Effective?

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George Ingram is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development
program at the Brookings Institution and serves as Chair Emeritus of
the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.

While President-elect Trump has articulated views on various domestic
and foreign policy issues, his position on development and foreign
assistance is largely unknown. Three facts should provide useful
guidance for new policymakers: (1) Foreign assistance is an essential
mechanism for promoting U.S. national security interests, (2) the past
two administrations have successfully created a broad bipartisan
coalition on development by building on their predecessor's
initiatives, and (3) there are specific ready-to-take actions to
produce even stronger results from those initiatives.

Development & Diplomacy

THE TAMPA BAY TIMES
Many Americans Misunderstand U.S. Spending on Foreign Aid |

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Jon Greenberg

"Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter
or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid," said Secretary
of State John Kerry, Oct. 26 in a speech at the Chicago Council on
Global Affairs. Foreign aid covers both military aid and more
humanitarian forms of assistance such as fighting disease and boosting
economic growth in other countries. Kerry's comment accurately
reflects what pollsters have seen for many years. Americans greatly
exaggerate the scale of those items compared to everything else
Washington spends money on. There are different ways to tally expenses
across more than a dozen agencies, but by and large, foreign aid
represents about 1 percent of all spending.

THE HUFFINGTON POST
When Humanitarian Intervention Turns Into Regime Change |

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Daniel DePetris

During three full days in September 2005, 170 U.N. member states
gathered for an extraordinary summit meeting at the U.N. headquarters
in New York to assess the state of international development in the
world. Once the summit was over, all of the member states in
attendance agreed to sign a document entitled the World Summit
Outcomes that had a dramatic impact in how the world views the people
who order and carry out the most serious crimes. For the first time
since the founding of the U.N., the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
doctrine was incorporated into a summit declaration.

Politics & Foreign Policy

REUTERS
Obama Asks for $11.6 Billion More in Supplemental Defense Budget |

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Idrees Ali

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday sent a request to Congress for
an additional $11.6 billion in supplemental war-related funding, which
would include money to fight Islamic State militants and sustain high
overseas troop levels. The request, detailed in a letter released by
the White House, seeks an additional $5.8 billion for the Pentagon for
military operations in Afghanistan and fighting Islamic State in Iraq
and Syria, and an $5.8 billion for the State Department and United
States Agency for International Development (USAID) for fiscal 2017.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Obama Urges Europe to Address Its Debt Crisis |

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Carol E. Lee and Nektaria Stamouli

President Barack Obama urged Europe to resolve lingering issues from
its debt crisis, saying on Tuesday that leaders should favor growth
over austerity, as part of their response to the rising populism in
Western countries exemplified by the election of Donald Trump. Mr.
Obama made the appeal after meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis
Tsipras, who said it is time for Greece to receive significant debt
relief from Europe. Mr. Obama said European leaders should follow
economic policies that ease some of the voter backlash against
globalization, as they grapple with political trends similar to those
behind Mr. Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Want America First? Try Free Trade |

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Thomas Bollyky and Edward Alden

Our everyday life is made possible by trade. Critics of trade
agreements, led by President-elect Donald J. Trump, want to change
direction, renegotiating pacts like Nafta - which Mr. Trump
called "the worst trade deal in history" - and the
agreement that brought China into the World Trade Organization. He
wants to tear up the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership among the
United States, Japan and 10 other Asia-Pacific countries.

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