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The Weekly GAB Friday, March 1, 2019
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Who's in the News

THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Trump's Next Defense Secretary Must Know How to Work with His State
Department

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Mayor Gregory Ballard, Lt. Col (ret.), U.S. Marine Corps

Our country needs a disciplined, resourceful, and forward-thinking
leader who understands the threats we face and will bring together all
the tools in America's arsenal to address them. This requires
the coordination of efforts between the military, the diplomatic
corps, and development personnel.

USA TODAY

America Must Recognize and Fight the Real Emergency of Ebola Before
It's Too Late

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John Kerry, former U.S. Secretary of State, and Dr. Vanessa Kerry,
Seed Global Health

Reports of Ebola's demise were greatly exaggerated. Today,
almost 100 children have died from a second outbreak, the second
largest in Congo's history with 745 confirmed infections and 505
deaths. The trajectory is eerily reminiscent of the early months of
the 2014 crisis. We can stop it. But we won't succeed if we
don't demand American leadership from start to finish.

Development & Diplomacy

THE WASHINGTON POST

At Venezuela's Border with Colombia, Women Suffer Extraordinary
Levels of Violence |

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Julia Zulver

Women are suffering extreme levels of assault, kidnapping and other
violence, given the combination of the Venezuelan migration and
Colombia's ongoing armed conflict, which continues despite the
uneasy peace with the FARC. With most media outlets focused on the
aid-delivery standoff and the political turmoil between Maduro and the
opposition, almost no international attention is focused on
what's happening to women.

NEWS DEEPLY
It's Time to Treat Venezuela Like a Protracted Refugee Crisis

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Provash Budden, Mercy Corps

The geopolitical face-off around Venezuela and growing unrest inside
the country continue to command the world's attention. Yet this
is only the latest chapter in the upheaval of a country in serious
tumult. And it foreshadows a continued exodus of Venezuelans and the
deepening of a regional humanitarian crisis.

DEVEX

Burden of Battling Extremism Calls for New Multilateral Fund, US Task
Force Says |

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Teresa Welsh

A new multilateral fund should be created to finance country-led plans
to prevent extremism in fragile states, a congressionally mandated
task force has recommended in a new report. The Partnership
Development Fund, possibly held at the World Bank, would be an
international platform for donors and the private sector to
concentrate their financial resources and coordinate programs focused
on preventing extremism.

THE DAILY CALLER
The World's Lack of Clean Water Is an Epidemic in the Making
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Mike Paddock, Engineers Without Borders USA

It sounds impossible to believe, but today, 50 percent of healthcare
facilities lack piped water, 33 percent of healthcare facilities lack
basic toilets, and nearly 40 percent of healthcare facilities lack
soap... Some wonder why we should care so much about a healthcare
facility on another continent when our own infrastructure is in need
of improvement. I quickly remind them that the world is a smaller
place than ever. With our global economy and transportation network,
epidemics can spread around the globe faster than ever before. The
2014 Ebola epidemic scare provided a taste of what could happen. And
each year it's a lesson we relearn during "flu
season."

THE FINANCIAL TIMES
World Bank Is Uniquely Placed to Combat Threat of Pandemics
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Richard Bissell, former USAID Assistant Administrator, and Richard
Seifman, The Global Fund

Pandemics not only potentially kill millions but are also a major
barrier to economic growth everywhere... The Gates Foundation, Unicef
and the World Health Organization, among others, are engaged in any
pandemic fight. But none of them can mount the kind of collaborative
effort needed to prevent the global spread of deadly diseases such as
Ebola or Zika. The World Bank is perfectly placed to play a unique
role in containing the spread of potentially catastrophic illnesses.

NBC NEWS
Fewer Americans Are Opting for Careers at the State Department |

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Dan De Luce

The number of Americans seeking a career in the U.S. diplomatic corps
has declined in the first two years of the Trump administration,
reaching the lowest level since 2008, according to State Department
numbers obtained exclusively by NBC News. Although President Donald
Trump's unpredictable, go-it-alone foreign policy has caused
apprehension among some prospective applicants, and led some senior
diplomats to resign, the cause of the drop remains unclear. But
coupled with budget pressures and a survey showing declining morale at
the State Department, veterans of the diplomatic corps worry that the
long-term health of the institution charged with safeguarding
America's interests abroad could be at risk if current trends
continue.

VOX

How the Global Gag Rule Undermines Ivanka Trump's Plan to
Empower Women |

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Nicole Fallert

Ivanka Trump has her next project. The president's daughter and
senior adviser is heading the Women's Global Development and
Prosperity Initiative, which seeks to economically empower women in
foreign countries. The project is launching with funding from the US
Agency for International Development and will eventually give up to
$300 million to 10 US government agencies to help a projected 50
million women around the world become economically independent by
2025... But the biggest barrier to the initiative's success
might be another Trump administration policy: the global gag rule, a
federal directive that prevents organizations abroad from receiving
money from the US government if they discuss, let alone perform,
abortions... Gender equality advocates are skeptical Trump's
initiative can be as effective as the White House says it will be if
health is left out of the conversation, according to an analysis of
the initiative by the Coalition for Women's Economic Empowerment
and Equality.

Politics & Foreign Policy

FOREIGN POLICY

There's a Silver Lining in the Clouds Over the North Korea
Negotiations |

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Andray Abrahamian

As anticlimactic as the surprise conclusion of the meeting might seem,
there are several potential positives to this week's turn of
events... Indeed, the collapse of leader-level discussions in Hanoi
could pave the way for more effective working-level talks in the
months ahead... Additionally, both leaders have a chance to look tough
at home.

THE WASHINGTON POST

Trump Announces Nomination of Kelly Knight Craft to Be Ambassador to
United Nations |

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Philip Rucker and Anne Gearan

President Trump announced Friday evening that he will nominate Kelly
Knight Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada and a major Republican
donor, to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Craft is set
to succeed Nikki Haley, pending Senate confirmation, and is
Trump's second pick to replace Haley, who left the U.N. post at
the end of last year. The president's first candidate, State
Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, withdrew from consideration
last week. Trump praised Craft's tenure at the embassy in Ottawa
as "outstanding" as he made the announcement on Twitter.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Patrick Shanahan Could Be What the Pentagon Needs - If He
Doesn't Become Trump's Yes Man |

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David Ignatius

In the days after he submitted his resignation as secretary of defense
in December, Jim Mattis told people he hoped to be succeeded by
Patrick Shanahan, his deputy. That was two months ago, and Shanahan
has remained in limbo since the beginning of the year as acting
secretary, perhaps trying to convince President Trump's critics
that he will be independent, the way Mattis was, while simultaneously
reassuring the White House that he won't.

AXIOS
How Mike Pence Wields Foreign Policy Power |

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Jonathan Swan

Political commentators often paint Mike Pence as an impotent toady.
But those caricatures miss an important reality: The vice president
has much more power than many people realize. Most people know Pence
has been a driving force behind perhaps the most socially conservative
presidency in modern history - especially on abortion rights.
But that's just the start. For the past two years, the vice president
has done more than arguably any other senior administration official
to propel President Trump's most hawkish foreign policy positions.
He's done so consistently in private and, increasingly, in public.
Nobody has had more influence over Trump's Venezuela policy than
Pence... Pence also exerts power on other critical foreign policy
issues. He publicly - and controversially -attacked
European allies in a recent Warsaw speech for not supporting Trump's
maximum pressure campaign on Iran.

NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
Mike Pompeo's Mission: Translate Trump to a Wary World |

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Mattathias Schwartz

It has often fallen to Pompeo to take Trump's shifting
foreign-policy instincts and weave them together into something
legible, defensible and sometimes even coherent, all without angering
a president who is reputed to interpret disagreement as a form of
disloyalty. Trump's tweets, abrupt changes of mind and penchant
for creating staff turmoil combine to make this a Sisyphean endeavor.
And yet Pompeo has tenaciously kept on rolling this particular
boulder.


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