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BROOKINGS INSTITUTE
Congress Finds Bipartisan Support for Foreign Aid and Aid Reform

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George Ingram formerly served on the professional staff of the House
Committee on Foreign affairs and as deputy assistant administrator at
USAID. He focuses on development effectiveness, aid reform, and
foreign affairs advocacy

The Foreign Assistance Accountability and Transparency Act of 2016,
sponsored by Republicans Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Ted Poe and
Democrats Sen. Ben Cardin and Rep. Gerry Connolly, is grounded in
important principles of foreign aid reform. It enacts into law key
policies advocated by the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and
supported by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and many other
international development and foreign policy organizations. Robust
evaluation and aid transparency, first elevated as elements of the
Millennium Challenge Corporation by the Bush administration and later
adopted by the Obama administration across all foreign affairs
agencies, are institutionalized by the bill. The bill calls for two
reports 18 months after enactment, not annual, year-after-year
reports, which had been the normal practice and usually resulted in
shelves of unread reports. One report will be from the president
outlining the monitoring and evaluation guidelines called for in the
report, and the other report will be from the Government
Accountability Office assessing those guidelines.

Campaign 2016

CNN
Pence Might Share a Ticket with Trump But Not a Worldview |

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Ryan Browne

Potentially most problematic for Trump, Pence has been a strong
proponent of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a regional trade deal
involving 12 countries pushed by the Obama administration. "The
Trans-Pacific Partnership is another disaster done and pushed by
special interests who want to rape our country -- just a continuing
rape of our country. It's a harsh word, but it's true," Trump said in
a speech last month in Ohio. But in a September 2014 tweet, Pence gave
the deal a ringing endorsement and called for its "swift adoption."

THE WASHINGTON POST

Here's What Could Happen if a President Trump Tore Up the Iran
Nuclear Deal

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William Spaniel is a Stanton nuclear security postdoctoral fellow at
the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford
University and, in September, will be an assistant professor in the
department of political science at the University of Pittsburgh

Trump's threat to tear up the agreement and renegotiate is a
double-edged sword. Suppose Iran calculates that it is likely to be
forced back to the negotiating table, either now or sometime in the
future. That would be a reason to try harder now to develop a weapon
- so that it's holding a better negotiating hand when that
time comes. The benefits of compliance may no longer outweigh the
costs of developing nuclear weapons. And if Iran does so, that would
be a loss for just about everyone else. The United States would have
to respond to a more complicated and dangerous new world in the
volatile Middle East. Hawkish U.S. politicians would fail at their
long-term goal of preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

FOREIGN POLICY

Can Sanders's Endorsement Heal the Democratic Party's
Civil War Over Foreign Policy? |

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Molly O'Toole

Bernie Sanders said he owed the 13 million who voted for him a
vigorous policy fight, and as recently as last week his campaign
criticized Clinton surrogates for refusing to insert language into the
party's platform draft that would explicitly call for rejecting
the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. But after forcing final
concessions in the platform at the Democratic National
Committee's final meeting this past weekend - achieving
the farthest-reaching language yet on the politically fraught issue of
the Israel-Palestine conflict, though not the outright rejection of
TPP that he sought - Sanders at last agreed to throw his support
behind the former secretary of state. "Top Five Reasons Sanders
Supporters Will Never Be Excited About Hillary Clinton," the
Trump campaign sent out, featuring "Sanders Stance On Trade
Stands In Stark Contrast To The Radical, Corporate Globalist Agenda
That Clinton Represents As She Refuses To Disavow TPP" and
"While Clinton Was Eager To Intervene In Iraq And Libya, Sanders
Insisted Upon Diplomacy Instead Of A Costly Invasion And War."

Development & Diplomacy

THE WASHINGTON POST

Colombia Offers the Possibility that the Zika Epidemic May Not Be as
Bad as Feared |

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Nick Miroff

The fact that Colombia has seen a relatively modest - not
massive - increase in birth defects raises hopes that the threat
of microcephaly from Zika is not as high as was feared when the images
first surfaced of so many newborns in Brazil with small, misshapen
heads. "So far we haven't seen an explosion of
microcephaly in other countries [outside Brazil], and that is good
news," said Marcos Espinal, director of the communicable
diseases and health analysis department at the Pan American Health
Organization. "But we have to wait to see what happens."
Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
other experts say there is more evidence than ever that Zika can
interfere with fetal brain development. They caution that it is still
too early to draw sweeping conclusions based on the preliminary Zika
data from Colombia, particularly as American officials prepare for the
possible spread of the virus this summer and an increase in U.S.
cases.

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
This Bill Will Save Lives |
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Caleb Smith

Last week, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the
Global Food Security Act (S. 1252). This common sense legislation will
save lives by combatting hunger and malnutrition in disaster areas
around the globe. And it will do all that without increasing spending
by a single dime. In fact, it requires a results-based approach for
U.S. food aid spending and authorizes a humanitarian program that will
better empower people to rise out of poverty instead of depending upon
foreign assistance or seeking refuge beyond their own borders.

MIAMI HERALD
U.S. Must Lead on Refugee Crisis
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Michael V. Hayden is a retired U.S. Air Force general and former
director of the CIA and NSA. James Stavridis, a retired U.S. Navy
admiral and NATO supreme allied commander, is dean of the Fletcher
school of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

We have spent our entire careers working to protecting this country,
and we believe that leadership on the refugee crisis would both
reflect American ideals and serve U.S. national security. Compassion
for people displaced by persecution and calamity is a core American
ideal. For more than two centuries, oppressed people seeking liberty
have been drawn to the idea of America, and ensuring that they receive
protection is part of what makes us who we are. That is why the Statue
of Liberty welcomes the world's "huddled masses yearning
to breathe free," and why President Reagan envisioned our nation
as "shining city on a hill," "a magnet for all who
must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who
are hurtling through the darkness toward home."

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Global Food Security: A Path to a Better Future
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Micky Kantor served as U.S. Trade Representative (1993-1996) and
Secretary of Commerce (1996-1997) in the Clinton administration.
Robert H. Tuttle served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom (2005
to 2009) in the Bush administration.

In just one year, Feed the Future America's signature global
food security initiative helped nearly 7 million smallholder farmers
adopt and use improved tools and techniques, and reached more than 12
million children to improve their nutrition. We must keep up this
momentum. And last week, Congress passed critical bipartisan
legislation to do just that. The Global Food Security Act will help
lift millions in the developing world out of poverty and hunger,
building on existing programs to support agriculture development and
promoting market-based agricultural reforms. U.S. global food security
programs in partnership with U.S. businesses and NGOs provide a
hand-up, not a hand-out, to struggling farmers around the world. With
access to seeds, supplies and training, small-scale farmers are able
to feed their families and strengthen their communities. Providing
these necessary tools for food security promotes our American values,
while building a thriving global economy and bolstering our national
security.

THE HUFFINGTON POST
U.S Makes Huge Pledge To Fight AIDS In South Africa |

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Isaiah Esipisu

The United States on Monday pledged $410 million towards ending the
AIDS epidemic in South Africa, the country hardest hit. South Africa
has the world's largest population of people living with HIV, at
6.8 million, and the funds will help expand its antiretroviral
programme, which provides treatment to more than 3 million patients.
The funds were donated through the U.S. President's Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which also supports projects in South
Africa to encourage male circumcision and attempts to reduce new HIV
infections in girls and young women.

Politics & Foreign Policy

THE WASHINGTON POST

Beijing's Claims to South China Sea Rejected by International
Tribunal |

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Simon Denyer and Emily Rauhala

An international tribunal ruled Tuesday that there is no legal basis
for China to claim historic rights to the South China Sea - a
major blow to Beijing that could further inflame tensions. China
immediately rejected the decision by the Permanent Court of
Arbitration in The Hague, but it was hailed as a landmark victory for
those challenging Beijing's reach into waters with key strategic
and commercial significance. The State Department called on China to
abide by the ruling, and urged the nations bordering the South China
Sea to avoid "provocative statements or actions."

THE NEW YORK TIMES
John Kerry Meets Vladimir Putin to Discuss New Syria Plan |

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Gardiner Harris & Anne Barnard

Secretary of State John Kerry met with President Vladimir V. Putin in
Moscow late Thursday night to discuss a proposed extensive military
cooperation agreement that for the first time would coordinate
American and Russian air attacks on the Islamic State and the Nusra
Front, Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria. Nevertheless, a top State
Department official, who requested anonymity to speak about a
sensitive diplomatic matter, said that any military cooperation in the
Syrian theater would have no effect on the wider relationship with
Russia, adding that differences remained over Ukraine and Crimea.


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