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** Reassured
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European leaders said they were reassured by what they saw from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after his international debut at the Group of 20 meeting in Bonn, saying the US was sending the right signal on confronting Russia and tackling conflict in Syria and Yemen, as Bloomberg’s Patrick Donahue and Nick Wadhams report (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/tillerson-embraces-global-cooperation-german-g-20-host-says?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) .

And, the Washington Post’s Carol Morello reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/tillerson-eases-concerns-over-foreign-policy-under-trump/2017/02/17/8a20acfc-f2fd-11e6-9fb1-2d8f3fc9c0ed_story.html?utm_term=.7bff2220a617&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) today that, after Tillerson had departed, the German and French foreign ministers said they welcomed his involvement in a meeting on Syrian peace talks due to restart next week.

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Melissa Dalton this week testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on "Defeating Terrorism in Syria: A New Way Forward (https://www.csis.org/analysis/defeating-terrorism-syria-new-way-forward?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) ."


** In Play
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President Donald Trump said in a Twitter post Friday that retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg and three others are “in play” to be his next national security adviser, following the removal of Michael Flynn earlier this week, as the
Wall Street Journal’s Damian Paletta, Gordon Lubold and Carol Lee report (https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-says-keith-kellogg-three-others-in-play-for-national-security-adviser-post-1487342490?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) .


** McCain in Munich
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During a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Republican senator from Arizona delivered a pointed and striking point-by-point takedown of Trump’s worldview and brand of nationalism, as the
Washington Post’s Aaron Blake reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/17/john-mccain-just-systematically-dismantled-donald-trumps-entire-worldview/?utm_term=.38e6d504d15b&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) .


** Pakistani Crackdown
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Pakistan says it has killed more than 100 militants in a security crackdown following Thursday’s attack on a shrine that left at least 80 people dead, as the BBC reports (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39001703?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) .


** In That Number
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** $150 billion
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The estimated global yearly cost associated with permafrost thawing. Source: "On Thin Ice: Mapping Asia's Permafrost (https://reconnectingasia.csis.org/analysis/entries/thin-ice/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) " by CSIS's Jonathan E. Hillman via Reconnecting Asia.


** Critical Quote
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** “The whole point of the isolate mission is to try to squeeze them and get them to leave and flush them out into the open.”
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—CSIS’s Christine Wormuth on the strategy behind the campaign to isolate and pressure the Islamic State in Raqqa. Source: AP (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/pentagon-cites-evidence-islamic-state-exodus-raqqa-45568253?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) .


** iDeas Lab
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This week’s episode of CSIS trustee Bob Schieffer’s About the News podcast features an interview that Bob and I conducted with Late Show host Stephen Colbert (https://itun.es/us/VYgadb.c?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) .

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


** Optics
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(Photo Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images.)
Former British prime minister Tony Blair delivers a keynote speech at a pro-EU event today in London.


** Recommended Reading
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“Tony Blair calls on British people to ‘rise up’ and fight against Brexit (https://news.vice.com/story/tony-blair-calls-on-british-people-to-rise-up-and-fight-against-brexit?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) ” by Vice News’ David Gilbert.


** This Town Tuesday
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Join GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs for a discussion with Christopher Phillips, a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, on “The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East (https://dc.linktank.com/event/the-battle-for-syria-international-rivalry-in-the-new-middle-east-a-coversation-with-dr-christopher?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) ” at 10:00 a.m.

Join John’s Hopkins SAIS at 6:00 p.m. for a roundtable discussion on "The New Right in Germany (http://www.sais-jhu.edu/events-calendar?trumbaEmbed=date%3D20170221&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789#/?i=1) ."

Join the Aspen Institute for a book discussion at 12:00 p.m., with Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass discussing his recent book, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order (https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/alma-joseph-gildenhorn-book-series-richard-haass/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) .

And join CSIS’s Japan Chair at 2:30 p.m. for a panel discussion by leading historians and Asia scholars on Japans twentieth-century history and historical memory in a global context (https://www.csis.org/events/how-think-about-japan-twentieth-century-history?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) .


** CSIS On Demand
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CSIS’s Project on Prosperity and Development hosted “Blockchain Technology and Global Development (https://www.csis.org/events/blockchain-technology-and-global-development?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) ” this week.


** Sounds
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On the latest episode of the CSIS Podcast, CSIS’s Kimberly Breier discusses what can be done to improve the US-Mexico relationship (https://www.csis.org/podcasts/csis-podcast?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) .


** Smiles
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Yesterday, I played a clip of The Faces performing a cover of “Maybe I’m Amazed.” I incorrectly attributed the song to Paul McCartney and Wings as opposed to just Paul McCartney who of course first released the song on his eponymous 1970 solo debut. For that I apologize. I had been thinking of the McCartney and Wings version of “Maybe I’m Amazed” from the “Wings Over America” tour of 1976. That album had heavy rotation in my house and of course, “Maybe I’m Amazed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTdz3hw9Xo&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e3b64d60eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e3b64d60eb-145367789) ” was the highlight. And what a highlight it was.


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