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The Weekly GAB Friday, April 29, 2016
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USGLC in the News

POLITICO PLAYBOOK
Power Playbooker |

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Mike Allen and Daniel Lippman

General David Petraeus has just joined the U.S. Global Leadership
Coalition's powerhouse 'brasstops' advisory group of over 160 retired
three and four-star military leaders calling on policymakers to beef
up foreign aid to keep America safe. Petraeus says that he's joined
the USGLC's ranks because he's seen firsthand how ensuring resources
for State and USAID helps 'improve our national security.'

POLITICO INFLUENCE
On The Hill |

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Isaac Arnsdorf

The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition brought 57 leaders from 35
organizations to meet with House and Senate appropriators on the
International Affairs Budget. Participants include leaders from AIPAC,
BD, Catholic Relief Services, Chemonics International, Friends of the
Global Fight, Mercy Corps, and three retired Navy and Air Force flag
officers.

Campaign 2016

FOX NEWS
Trump: We're a debtor nation, can't keep giving and giving

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Trump noted "if we don't help" countries facing
disasters, then it would create "bigger problems" but he
also said "we give money... a lot of help" to
countries that "absolutely don't deserve it." When
discussing aid to countries like Pakistan, he said "we
don't want to see total instability." He added that aid to
Pakistan goes "very much against my grain," but he
believes U.S. should continue it and get more in return. In the case
of assistance to countries struggling with poverty, Trump said he
would "try to keep some of these countries going" while
underscoring the domestic and fiscal challenges facing the U.S.

POLITICO
Trump Vows to Make America Strong Again |
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Nick Gass

Donald Trump went for full-on presidential on Wednesday, laying out a
broad foreign policy vision in prepared remarks delivered from a ritzy
hotel ballroom. The speech was notable more for the atmospherics and
presentation than for its substance, which amounted to an elaborated
form of the foreign policy points Trump has been making in stump
speeches and interviews, in some cases for decades... He explicitly
called for a nonpartisan American foreign policy and positioned
himself, at times, as a dove to Clinton's hawk, setting the
stage for a general election foreign policy debate in which Trump
scrambles typical partisan divides, straying selectively from
Republican Party orthodoxy.

VOX

Is Hillary Clinton Really the Foreign Policy Super-Hawk She is
Portrayed to Be? |
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Max Fisher

Clinton as someone who is exceptionally enthusiastic about the merits
and potential of American engagement in the world. She is indeed, more
than any other candidate in the race, a true believer in American
power. But Clinton's policies and past record suggest that her vision
of power includes military force as well as diplomacy, so that while
she is more likely to act in foreign affairs, she is also more likely
to do so peacefully. While the Republican candidates express greater
skepticism about engagement with the outside world, they tend to argue
against diplomacy and to emphasize, much more then Clinton, imposing
order through force and coercion.

FOREIGN POLICY
Top Advisor Says Sanders Missed Opportunity on Foreign Policy |

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Molly O'Toole

For months, Sen. Bernie Sanders was pushed to name his presidential
campaign's national security advisors for insight on how the
Democratic candidate - who himself was surprised by his upstart
success - would conduct foreign policy as commander in chief...
Sanders's foreign policy advisors say it's now becoming a
battle for influence one that's ramping up ahead of the
convention in July. His aides are looking to leverage his clout into a
key role in drafting the party platform in Philadelphia, pushing for a
more restrained Democratic foreign policy after Obama leaves office
even as Clinton, the likely nominee, promises a more robust national
security strategy.

Who's in the News

THE WASHINGTON POST
The U.S. Can't Afford to End Its Global Leadership Role

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Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO and president of the
Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and Robert Kagan, senior fellow at
the Brookings Institution

We need to restore a bipartisan foreign policy consensus around
renewing U.S. global leadership. Despite predictions of a
"post-American world," U.S. capacities remain
considerable. The U.S. economy remains the most dynamic in the world.
The widely touted "rise of the rest" - the idea that
the United States was being overtaken by the economies of Brazil,
Russia, India and China - has proved to be a myth. The dollar
remains the world's reserve currency, and people across the
globe seek U.S. investment and entrepreneurial skills to help their
flagging economies. U.S. institutions of higher learning remain the
world's best and attract students from every corner of the
globe. The political values that the United States stands for remain
potent forces for change. Even at a time of resurgent autocracy,
popular demands for greater freedom can be heard in Russia, China,
Iran and elsewhere, and those peoples look to the United States for
support, both moral and material. And our strategic position remains
strong. The United States has more than 50 allies and partners around
the world. Russia and China between them have no more than a handful.

DEVEX
Measles - The Canary in the Coalmine
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Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

The extremely infectious nature of measles means that a much higher
level of vaccine coverage is required to achieve "herd immunity"
- the point where immunization coverage is high enough within a
community to stop the spread of disease. For many common diseases,
this threshold is around 80-85 percent; if measles vaccine coverage
drops below 90 percent, it is just a matter of time before you will
see outbreaks... we need to stop focusing just on catch-up campaigns
whenever there is a flare up, and instead concentrate our resources on
improving routine immunization... and wherever an outbreak occurs we
need to treat it as a warning of a potential vulnerability in the
preparedness of those countries.

Development & Diplomacy

VOICE OF AMERICA
Report: Six African Nations Could be Malaria-free by 2020

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The "Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030", approved by the
WHO last year, hoped to see an end to local transmission of malaria in
at least 10 countries by 2020, but now the WHO estimates that 21
countries could achieve that goal, including six in Africa. "Since the
year 2000, malaria mortality rates have declined by 60% globally. In
the WHO African Region, malaria mortality rates fell by 66% among all
age groups and by 71% among children under 5 years," the WHO said in a
statement accompanying the report. The six countries in Africa that
could be rid of malaria by 2020 are Algeria, Botswana, Cape Verde,
Comoros, South Africa and Swaziland.

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
The Mounting Call for a Humanitarian Revolution |

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Howard LaFranchi

The remarkable strides over the past two decades in reducing global
poverty and hunger and expanding education and prosperity are in
jeopardy as a result of a set of humanitarian crises. These surpass in
size and complexity those the world confronted at the end of World War
II. But as the international community prepares to convene a
first-ever summit next month, aid experts assert in a just-released
report that the tools and know-how exist to meet the challenge. The
challenges are indeed unprecedented in their combination. They include
longer and more destructive conflicts, higher mobility as a record
number of displaced seek refuge farther from home, and increasingly
intense and damaging natural disasters, the report's
contributors say.

Politics & Foreign Policy

THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Majority Call for Investing Locally Before Spending on Foreign Aid |

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Jim Antle

Consider the results of an Esquire-NBC News survey of the "new
American center." Voters in this large group aren't particularly
socially conservative and aren't principled champions of limited
government either. They do lean right on some issues, however: "The
people of the center are patriotic and proud, with a strong majority
(66 percent) saying that America is still the greatest country in the
world, and most (54 percent) calling it a model that other countries
should emulate," writes Tony Dokoupil. "But the center is also very
nervous about the future, overwhelmingly saying that America can no
longer afford to spend money on foreign aid (81 percent) when we need
to build up our own country."

REAL CLEAR WORLD

Ethiopia Struggles with Worst Drought for 50 Years, Leaving 18 Million
People in Need of Aid |

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Aislinn Laing

With growth and relative political stability has come a booming
population of more than 90 million, three quarters of whom still
depend on agriculture for survival. The drought has killed up to 90
percent of crops in some areas and at least one million cattle. While
the government insists the conditions for the declaration of a famine
have not been met, it has only recently admitted that it cannot handle
the crisis alone. It has put $360 million into emergency food supplies
and medical care, but now says it needs help. "Donors and
partners must now scale-up to give Ethiopia the humanitarian support
and attention it deserves," said Mitiku Kassa, head of the
country's National Disaster Risk Management Coordination
Commission, in a January report. However, the humanitarian crises
caused by the Syria, Yemeni and migrant crises have sucked attention
and resources away from the West's traditional aid recipients.

THE HUFFINGTON POST
How and Why China Became Africa's Biggest Aid Donor

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Kafayat Amusa, Lecturer in Economics at the University of South
Africa; Nara Monkam, Research Director of the Africa Tax Institute at
the University of Pretoria; Nicola Viegi, Professor of monetary
economics at the University of Pretoria

Prominent in the aid debate is the notion that western donor countries
are more concerned about the degree of governance in recipient
countries. Their Chinese counterparts are assumed to overlook the
level and type of governance. At first glance this might be seen to be
true. But it is not necessarily the case. For both types of donors,
recipient country governance is important... In the case of the US,
both political rights and civil liberty are considerations in its aid
allocation decisions to the region. For China, political rights are
more important than civil liberty in influencing who receives aid.


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