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** Good Evening,
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It's Tuesday, July 18th.

Note: The Evening will be “gone fishin’” until August 4th. Until then, please don’t forget to smile!


** CSIS at Chautauqua
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This week, scholars from CSIS will partner with the Chautauqua Institution for a week of lectures on the theme of Geopolitics Today. From the economics of energy and climate change, to international security in an increasingly globalized and competitive age, CSIS and its experts bring the issues of the world to Chautauqua’s door step. For the week’s events calendar and video on demand visit CSIS.org (https://www.csis.org/csis-chautauqua?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) .


** Iran
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The Trump administration has imposed a new set of sanctions on Iranian people and organizations to counter what it called Tehran’s “malign influence” in the Middle East, as the
FT’s Demetri Sevastopulo reports (https://www.ft.com/content/7b181dfc-6b62-11e7-b9c7-15af748b60d0?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) .

And, the Iran nuclear deal faces an uncertain future under President Trump, despite his reluctant decision on Monday to certify Iran’s compliance for the second time in his young presidency, as the Hill’s Katie Bo Williams and Rebecca Kheel report (http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/342594-iran-deal-faces-uncertain-future-under-trump?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See “Iran is Cheating on the Nuclear Deal (https://www.cfr.org/blog-post/iran-cheating-nuclear-deal?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) ” via CFR’s Elliott Abrams.

Also see Chatham House’s Sanam Vakil and Neil Quilliam’s “Total’s Iran Deal Gives Rouhani Space to Push Reform (https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/total-s-iran-deal-gives-rouhani-space-push-reform?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) .”


** North Korea’s Range
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North Korea does not have the ability to strike the United States with "any degree of accuracy (http://www.businessinsider.com/r-north-korea-does-not-have-capacity-to-hit-us-with-any-degree-of-accuracy-us-general-2017-7?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) " and while its missiles have the range, they do not have the missile guidance capability needed, Vice Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Paul Selva said today while appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Cory Gardner, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs said today at CSIS that the U.S. will do everything it can to stop NK’s nuclear and missile programs even if it means the use of force, as Yonhap News Agency’s Lee Haye-ah reports (http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/07/19/0200000000AEN20170719000200315.html?input=rss&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See CSIS’s micro website “Missile Threat (https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/dprk/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) ” for more about NK’s range.


**
Venezuela Sanctions
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The U.S. is poised to impose sanctions on Venezuela’s defense minister and several other top officials for human-rights violations, according to people with knowledge of the plan, who added that the action was one of several under consideration by the Trump administration against President Nicolas Maduro’s government, as Bloomberg’s Jose Enrique Arrioja, Ben Bartenstein, and Jennifer Dlouhy report (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-18/u-s-is-said-to-ready-sanctions-against-top-venezuelans?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) .

And, as the FT’s Demetri Sevastopulo and Gideon Long report (https://www.ft.com/content/906bb3cc-6bd9-11e7-b9c7-15af748b60d0?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) , the White House has not ruled out banning imports of Venezuelan oil.

Dive Deeper: See “Venezuela at a Crossroads: The Countdown to a Soviet-Style Constituent Assembly (https://www.csis.org/analysis/venezuela-crossroads-countdown-soviet-style-constituent-assembly/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) ” via CSIS’s Moises Rendon.


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Silicon Valley Silence
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Facebook, Google, Apple, and other major technology firms are largely absent from a debate over the renewal of a broad U.S. internet surveillance law, weakening prospects for privacy reforms that would further protect customer data, according to sources familiar with the matter, as Reuters’ Dustin Volz reports (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-intelligence-idUSKBN1A32B3?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) today.


** In That Number
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** 75
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Number of years since the creation of the first U.S. special operations forces.
Source: CSIS’s Mark Moyar, “Making the Most of Special Operations Forces (https://www.csis.org/analysis/making-most-special-operations-forces?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) .”


** Critical Quote
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** "Good Tuesday afternoon. Jake and Anna talked to the great Bob Schieffer for his podcast with CSIS’s Andrew Schwartz. Listen here (http://bit.ly/2uFhd9Q?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) .”
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— Politico Playbook Power Briefing (http://bit.ly/2uFhd9Q?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789)


** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt CSIS’s Victor Cha and Marie DuMond released a new report today,
The Korean Pivot: The Study of South Korea as a Global Power (https://www.csis.org/analysis/korean-pivot?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) .

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


** Optics
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Die Welt
(Photo Credit: Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images.)
President Donald Trump holds a baseball bat while participating in a Made in America event with companies from 50 states featuring their products in the Blue Room of the White House yesterday.


** Recommended Reading
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“How the Pentagon ending its deal with immigrant recruits could hurt the military (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/07/18/how-the-pentagons-plan-end-its-deal-with-immigrant-recruits-could-hurt-the-military/?utm_term=.8cdb4ca7f99c&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789 ) ,” via the
Washington Post’s Alex Horton.


** This Town Tomorrow
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Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Senator Angus King (I-ME), cochairs of the Senate Arctic Caucus, will join CSIS at 8:30 a.m. for a discussion (https://www.csis.org/events/america%E2%80%99s-arctic-economic-ambitions-opportunities-and-limitations?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) on the opportunities confronting economic, commercial, and infrastructure initiatives in the Arctic.

Join the CSIS Energy and National Security Program at 10:00 a.m. for a discussion (https://www.csis.org/events/update-renewable-fuel-standard?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) on the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard and its implications for trade and the market.

Join Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies at 12:00 p.m. for “Gender & Development in the Arab World (http://guevents.georgetown.edu/event/gender_development_in_the_arab_world?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789#.WW5GyYTyvcs) ” a conversation on the challenges faced by young women in the region.


** On Demand
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Today, CSIS hosted the Seventh Annual CSIS South China Sea Conference (https://www.csis.org/events/seventh-annual-csis-south-china-sea-conference/?block1&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) .


** Sounds
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Axios (https://www.axios.com/generate-2460992864.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) featured a special joint podcast from CSIS’s Energy and National Security Program and Russia and Eurasia Program, “Russia: Energy & Geopolitics (https://www.csis.org/podcasts/energy-360/russia-energy-geopolitics?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dba4d2e0ea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dba4d2e0ea-195013649&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) .”


** Smiles
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I feel so lucky to have grown up with Fleetwood Mac, listening to their music, seeing them perform live. I’ll never forget seeing Lindsey Buckingham perform with a solo band in Georgetown’s long lost “Bayou” in the 90s. I’ll never forget seeing the Big Mac live at the Capitol Centre in the 80s and 90s.

“Rumours,” released in 1977 has sold over 40 million copies making it one of the bestselling albums of all time. Rolling Stone magazine named it their 26th best album ever. It’s easily in my top 10, if not top 5.

Watch this performance of “Go Your Own Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clCYmvmpIsA&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=0bd55c78a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-0bd55c78a4-145367789) ” from December 5, 1977, it’s astonishingly great.
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