Subject: The Evening CSIS: Sanctioned, Brinkmanship, Wild Horses & More
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 23:21:50 +0000
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The Evening CSIS: Sanctioned, Brinkmanship, Wild Horses & More
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** Sanctioned
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The Trump administration today designated 25 individuals and entities associated “with Iran’s ballistic missile program,” including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, for sanctions in response to the missile test last weekend. The sanctions targeted “multiple entities and individuals involved in procuring technology and/or materials to support Iran’s ballistic missile program, as well as for acting for or on behalf of, or providing support to, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force,” as the
New York Times’ Glenn Thrush and David Sanger report (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/us/politics/iran-sanctions-trump.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: The Washington Institute’s Farzin Nadimi authored “Iran's Latest Missile Test: Scenarios and Implications for the New Administration (http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-latest-missile-test-scenarios-and-implications-for-the-new-administra?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) ” today.

** Attacked
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Paris was plunged into panic today when soldiers guarding the Louvre Museum shot an attacker who lunged at them with a machete and shouted “Allahu Akbar!" as the historic landmark went into lockdown, as the AP reports (http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-paris-louvre-20170203-story.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .

Hours later, police launched several raids across the city, as Fox News reports (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02/03/shooting-at-louvre-french-soldier-reportedly-opens-fire-during-security-scare.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .

See more coverage from Paris via France 24 (http://www.france24.com/en/20170203-france-live-soldier-shoots-knife-attacker-near-paris-louvre-museum?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .

** On the Brink
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The commitment of the US and South Korea to a new missile defense system is pushing the Korean peninsula to the "brink of a nuclear war," North Korea warned today, as CNN reports (http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/asia/mattis-us-north-korea-thaad-missile-defense/index.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .

And as Business Insider’s Paul Szoldra reports (http://www.businessinsider.com/mattis-overwhelming-north-korea-2017-2?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) , Defense Secretary Jim Mattis threatened an "effective and overwhelming" response by the US and its allies if North Korea were to use nuclear weapons.

Dive Deeper: For more about the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), the American antimissile system meant to intercept North Korea’s medium-range missiles, see the CSIS Missile Defense Project’s interactive micro-website, “Missile Threat (https://missilethreat.csis.org/system/thaad/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .”

** Ukraine's Renewed Fighting
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A reprise in deadly fighting between Moscow-backed separatists and government troops in eastern Ukraine may provide the first major test for President Donald Trump’s plans to warm relations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, as the Wall Street Journal’s Alan Cullison reports (https://www.wsj.com/articles/renewed-fighting-in-eastern-ukraine-presents-challenge-for-trumps-plans-with-russia-1486152949?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See the CSIS Podcast’s latest episode released today: “Ukraine's Frozen Conflict Approaches Melting Point (https://www.csis.org/podcasts/csis-podcast?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .”

Plus, CSIS’s Olga Oliker’s “Will Russia continue to play the role of spoiler? (https://www.csis.org/analysis/will-russia-continue-play-role-spoiler?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) ” for CSIS’s 2017 Global Forecast.

** In That Number
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** €200 million
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Brussels will provide an additional 200 million euros toward the EU plan devised at a summit today to shut down the smuggling of North African migrants across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Source: AP (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_EUROPE_MIGRANTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-02-03-15-07-45&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “I definitely think events in Ukraine are testing how much stomach there is [in the United States] to support Ukraine”
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—CSIS's Heather Conley, senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic. Source: Foreign Policy.  (http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/03/is-putin-already-testing-trump/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789)

** Optics
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(Photo Credit: Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images.)
French elite police officers stand in front of the Pyramide du Louvre today in Paris. A French soldier opened fire on a man who attacked a security patrol while trying to gain access to the Louvre Museum.

** Highly Recommended
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The Heritage Foundation today released a reengineered website (http://www.heritage.org/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .

** This Town Monday
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Join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace at 11:00 a.m. for “Cyber Norms Revisited: International Cybersecurity and the Way Forward (http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/02/06/cyber-norms-revisited-international-cybersecurity-and-way-forward-event-5490?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .”

Join AEI at 1:30 p.m. for “Renewing American Strength Abroad: A Conversation with Senator Tom Cotton (http://www.aei.org/events/renewing-american-strength-abroad-a-conversation-with-senator-tom-cotton/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .”

And the Institute for Policy Studies is hosting “Reclaiming MLK (http://www.ips-dc.org/events/reclaiming-mlk/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) ,” as part of the Institute’s Liberation in Action 2017 Black History Month Series.

** CSIS On Demand
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This week, CSIS’s International Security Program hosted a panel discussion on the future of alliances and extended nuclear deterrence (https://www.csis.org/events/future-alliances-and-extended-nuclear-deterrence?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) and how these issues might impact the Trump administration.

** Sounds
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Madeleine Albright’s discussion at CSIS Monday is now available as a Smart Women, Smart Power podcast (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/smart-women-smart-power/id924940383?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .

** I Like It Like That
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Medium plans to launch a consumer subscription product (https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/medium-subscriptions/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) this quarter.

** Smiles
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Gram Parsons has a lot of fans. And many of his fans are famous musicians themselves. The Rolling Stones learned country music from hanging out with Parsons. As a gift the Stones actually let Parsons record the Jagger-Richards penned “Wild Horses” before the Stones released their more famous version. It was one of Parsons’ favorite songs.

Thirty years after Parsons’ death, his friends and fans came together in 2004 for a two-night tribute to the country-rock pioneer. In this clip you’ll see Keith Richards, Norah Jones, Jim James, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Jim Lauderdale, Dwight Yoakam and others perform “Wild Horses (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2sNYUQlV7c&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=591e6c8c6d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-591e6c8c6d-145367789) .” That’s Gram Parsons’ only daughter Polly Parsons speaking at the end of the performance.

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