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Thank you Chairman Burr, Vice Chairman Warner, and Distinguished Members of the Committee.  I submitted my full statement for the record, but let me highlight key points on the national security context of these activities and steps we need to take to address them.

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Turkey’s EU accession process has come to a standstill and the emerging consensus is that Turkey’s EU membership was probably never meant to be. This policy paper cautions against shelving Turkey’s EU prospects for good and endorsing a purely transactional approach that confuses realism with short-termism and narrowly defined interests. The brief argues for revived Turkey–EU engagement, starting with serious pragmatic efforts toward upgrading the 1995 Customs Union. Читать дальше...

In a box in my parents’ basement sits a videotape featuring perhaps the most embarrassing thing Mark Zuckerberg has ever done: dance to the Backstreet Boys’ “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” at our summer camp talent show. The second most embarrassing thing Zuckerberg has ever done? Prostrate himself to Beijing. And as the years go by and Facebook grows more mature, it’s becoming more painful to watch.

It took 18 months but the liberal order is finally shaking off its Trump-induced torpor. Compared to the doom and gloom surrounding the NATO and Helsinki summits, with longtime allies fearing that the tempestuous U.S. president has broken through his cordon of “adult” advisors to cause serious damage to the Western alliance, the scene in Tokyo on July 17th could not have been more different. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, and European Council... Читать дальше...