Subject: The Evening CSIS: New Start, Breaking Deadlock and More Maceo
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 23:41:03 +0000
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The Evening CSIS: New Start, Breaking Deadlock and More Maceo
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** Good Evening,
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** New Start
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In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps US and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, as Reuters’ Jonathan Landay and David Rohde report in an exclusive (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-putin-idUSKBN15O2A5?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) published today.

Dive Deeper: See the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s overview of the New Start Treaty (http://www.nti.org/learn/treaties-and-regimes/treaty-between-the-united-states-of-america-and-the-russian-federation-on-measures-for-the-further-reduction-and-limitation-of-strategic-offensive-arms/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) .

** Breaking the Deadlock
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President Trump and his advisers are developing a strategy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would enlist Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and Egypt to break years of deadlock, as the
New York Times’ Peter Baker and Mark Landler report (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/world/middleeast/trump-arabs-palestinians-israel.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See the Washington Institute’s David Makovsky and Dennis Ross’s “Toward a New Paradigm for Addressing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/toward-a-new-paradigm-for-addressing-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) .”

** Breaking the Stalemate
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Thousands more troops and billions more dollars are needed to break the war in Afghanistan out of a “stalemate,” the top US commander in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, warned Congress today, as NPR’s Philip Ewing reports (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/09/514310174/thousand-more-troops-needed-to-break-afghanistan-stalemate-general-warns?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) .

See CFR’s Micah Zenko’s new commentary published today: “Being Honest About U.S. Military Strategy in Afghanistan (http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2017/02/09/being-honest-about-u-s-military-strategy-afghanistan/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) .”

And CSIS's Anthony H. Cordesman recently authored a major report entitled: The Trump Transition and the Afghan War: The Need for Decisive Action (https://www.csis.org/analysis/major-new-report-trump-transition-and-afghan-war-need-decisive-action?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) .

** In That Number
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** 200,000
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The number of foreigners currently under orders to leave Germany. Source: WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/articles/merkel-plans-to-speed-deportations-of-rejected-migrants-1486664642?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “Abe and Trump will no doubt address several issues as they traverse the golf course, but they need not focus too much on hitting long drives. For now, the aim is to simply make sure the U.S.-Japan relationship stays on the fairway.”
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—CSIS’s Michael Green, Matthew Goodman, Nicholas Szechenyi, and David Parker authored a new CSIS Critical Questions piece, “The Abe-Trump Summit: Aiming for the Fairway (https://www.csis.org/analysis/abe-trump-summit-aiming-fairway?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) .”

** iDeas Lab
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CSIS’s Reconnecting Asia project (https://reconasia.csis.org/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) maps new linkages—roads, railways, and other infrastructure—that are reshaping economic and geopolitical realities across the continent.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and video.

** Optics
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(Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.)
White House press secretary Sean Spicer takes questions from reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room after answering a question from WMUR’s Josh McElveen via Skype at the White House this week. Spicer has been taking questions from people via the Internet in order to “open up the briefing room to journalists who live beyond 50 miles” of Washington.

** Recommended Reading
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ICYMI, Andrew Ross Sorkin of the
New York Times on “A Quiet Giant of Investing Weighs In on Trump (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/business/dealbook/sorkin-seth-klarman-trump-investors.html?src=me&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) ” in which he reports on one of the most coveted readings on Wall Street.

** This Town Tomorrow
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At 9:30 a.m., the
Washington Post’s “The Daily 202 Live (https://www.washingtonpost.com/post-live-2017-Daily-202-February-Murphy/?utm_term=.e98595710f19&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) ” with James Hohmann will host Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) for a conversation about Democrats’ policy priorities in a Republican-led Congress and working with the new administration.

Join Georgetown University’s Center for German and European Studies at 10:00 a.m. for the 2017 Transatlantic Policy Symposium (http://tapsgeorgetown.com/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) , featuring an expert panel with CSIS’s Heather Conley.

And join the Atlantic Council at 2:00 p.m. for “A Conversation with H.E. Federica Mogherini (http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/detail/a-conversation-with-he-federica-mogherini?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) ,” EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy.

** CSIS On Demand
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Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko joined CSIS last month to discuss “Afghanistan Reconstruction: Enduring Challenges for the New Administration and Congress (https://www.csis.org/events/afghanistan-reconstruction-enduring-challenges-new-administration-and-congress?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) .”

** Sounds
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The latest from the
FT’s World Weekly with Gideon Rachman explores the fate of the euro (http:// http://podcast.ft.com/?p=4235&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) .

** Smiles
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I’m glad that some folks out there got a kick out of my Tom Brady nutrition freak out. I’m feeling better today. Again, thanks to my trainer Damani and the incomparable Maceo Parker.

For those of you who don’t know who Maceo is, he was James Brown’s saxophone player in the 1960s. If that’s not enough said, Maceo also took it to the bridge with Parliament-Funkadelic in the 70s. So the Maceo sound is kind of a big deal in the history of modern music.

How big a deal? Maceo’s funk could even bring one of history’s greatest funkmen not named James Brown to tears. Watch this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuBp2Q3oSTw&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=a12f2fcf79-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-a12f2fcf79-145367789) .

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