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The Weekly GAB - Friday, April 22, 2016
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Campaign 2016

WAR ON THE ROCKS
The Presidential Candidates Need Foreign Policy Help

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Alex Ward, Associate Director of the Atlantic Council's Brent
Scowcroft Center on International Security

Do the candidates care about foreign policy?... there's one
former secretary of state left and the rest of the candidates have not
really impressed on foreign policy issues. And, to be sure, this is
odd... This seems to fall back into the old adage that foreign policy
cannot make a presidency, but it can certainly break one. Foreign
policy will likely become a greater deal during the general election.
But for now, domestic concerns dominate the primaries. Plus, only
about "10 to 12 million" Americans will have picked their
party's candidate, which is not representative of the United
States, including those who might care about foreign policy.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Securing Peace with Trade and Diplomacy

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Secretary Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense, and Senator Bob
Kerrey, former Senator from Nebraska

Beware the simple applause line or bumper-sticker slogan or tweet from
political candidates. Beware those who seem to think that diplomacy
and compromise are not essential ingredients of a lasting peace. The
statesmen who built the new economic and political order following
World War II, and who sustained the nation's long and expensive
containment of the Soviet Union, insisted that global trade and
multilateral institutions were critical parts of securing global peace
and prosperity.

NPR

Why Candidates Are Out of Touch with How Americans Really Feel About
Trade |

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Scott Horsley

Overall, polls show a narrow majority of Americans think trade deals
have been good for the United States, on balance. But opponents tend
to be noisier... Democratic voters are generally more supportive
of trade deals, even if many Democratic elected officials are
not... Republican voters are much more skeptical of trade deals,
even though the party's "establishment" is still generally supportive.
For voters of all stripes, trade worries are amplified by more general
concerns with slow growth, automation, and inequality.

DEVEX
U.S. Primary 'Surrogates' Share Africa Policy Visions |

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Michael Igoe

The five remaining candidates for the Democratic and Republican
presidential tickets haven't said much about U.S.-Africa
relations - hardly a hot-button issue in American politics at
the moment. Since we probably can't expect questions about Feed
the Future, or the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or sanctions
against Zimbabwe to surface in the primary debates - where job
growth and national security reign supreme - the Africa-America
Institute brought together some of the candidates' advisors to
speculate on what sort of "Africa legacy" each of them
might try to build as president of the United States.

Who's in the News

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
A New Map of Poverty, a New Approach to International Aid

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Bill Gates, Co-Chair and Trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation

Development aid can't by itself make poor countries grow. That
comes primarily from the hard work of citizens, governments and the
private economy. But well-focused support enables developing countries
to do a few really important things better: provide basic health care,
increase access to education, and help subsistence farmers improve
crop yields. Yet the way that the current global-aid system measures
poverty could deal a setback to countries and people on the cusp of
escaping it.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Letter to the Editor: Foreign Aid and National Security

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Heather Higginbottom, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and
Resources

Foreign assistance is critical to achieving our national security
objectives, laying the groundwork for developing countries today to
become bigger partners tomorrow. The price tag on this invaluable
element of our national power rings in at less than 1 percent of the
total federal budget... Our foreign assistance dollars are working
overtime to bolster our national security, and needs show no signs of
abating. Our budget request is critical to ensuring our responsiveness
to these complex crises and American leadership in this global
landscape.

Development & Diplomacy

FOREIGN POLICY
Obama Dreams of an AIDS-Free Generation |

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Andrew Green

As of September 2014, [PEPFAR] had helped 7.7 million people around
the world receive ART [anti-retroviral treatment]. These are the kind
of numbers that led a sweeping 2013 evaluation of PEPFAR by the
Institute of Medicine... to declare the program "globally
transformative." But the gains underscore how much further there is to
go. In Mozambique alone, new treatment guidelines the government is
expected to adopt will swell the number of patients eligible for ART
to 1.2 million, according to CDC officials. Those new treatment
standards are still less inclusive than the recent recommendation by
the WHO... That would mean enrolling 9 million additional patients
around the world. Unless enrollment accelerates, triggering a drop in
the HIV transmission rate, that number will continue to climb
eventually beyond any response the international community can mount.

THE HUFFINGTON POST
The New Road to Development: Paving the Way to Global Connectivity

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Catherine Novelli, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth,
Energy and the Environment

The Internet holds the potential to become the most equal-opportunity
platform for economic empowerment the world has ever known. Yet the
only way to realize this goal is for the entire planet yes, every one
of the world's nearly seven-and-a-half billion inhabitants to gain
affordable Internet access. This may sound like a heavy lift, but it
is eminently achievable. To start with, 40 percent of the world's
population, or 3.2 billion people, most of whom live in developed
countries, are already online. Connecting the remaining 60 percent of
the world's offline population, the majority of whom are women living
in developing countries, and many of whom are poor or living in rural
communities, will be more of a challenge. But it is challenge we must
do everything in our power to meet. We cannot afford to leave four
billion people behind as connected countries continue to move forward
towards digitally enabled prosperity.

Politics & Foreign Policy

THE HILL
Paul Ryan Puts His Stamp on GOP Foreign Policy |

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Kristina Wong

Speaker Paul Ryan is putting his stamp on Republican foreign policy, a
departure for a GOP leader who for much of his career has been focused
on domestic policy. Ryan just completed his first foreign trip as
Speaker, visiting Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The
46-year-old Speaker is much better known for his work on the budget,
entitlements and taxes that foreign policy. As chairman of the House
Budget Committee and House Ways and Means Committee, Ryan rarely
entered the fray of foreign policy... [He] is calling for more
global engagement - and U.S. leadership - in [Asia and the
Middle East]. That's an implicit criticism of Obama's
foreign policy, but also suggests a different path from Trump's.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Senate GOP Shoots for Quick Action on Zika Funding Bill |
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Andrew Taylor

Democrats say top GOP lawmakers are proposing to partially fund
President Barack Obama's request for money to fight the Zika virus.
The $1.1 billion measure circulating Wednesday comes in advance of an
Appropriations panel meeting on Thursday and was being worked on with
Democrats in hopes of winning their support. The measure has not been
finalized and is part of continuing negotiations. The money would be
used to try to slow the spread of the Zika virus and develop a vaccine
against it.

POLITICO MORNING AGRICULTURE
Provision in House Ag Approps Bill Highlights Food Aid Fight |

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Jenny Hopkinson

House appropriators want to make sure USAID doesn't spend less than
$350 million on non-emergency food assistance in fiscal 2017, the
amount authorized by the farm bill under the Food for Peace program
that ships U.S. agricultural commodities in U.S. ships to foreign
countries. A provision that would require USAID to allocate those
funds is included in the $21.3 billion agriculture spending bill that
the House Appropriations Committee marks up today. Report language
accompanying the bill reveals lawmakers are concerned that USAID in
fiscal 2014 only spent $261.6 million of the $350 million appropriated
for nonemergency food assistance, while using $80 million from a
different source of funding that allows the agency to deliver food aid
in ways other than U.S. commodities, such as food vouchers or cash
transfers.

THE WASHINGTON POST

A Cold-Eyed View of Allies Has Left Obama with Few Overseas Friends |

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Greg Jaffe and Griff Witte

Even before he became president, Obama introduced himself to the world
as a multilateralist who aimed to solve the thorny problems of the
21st century collaboratively. "True partnership and true
progress .?.?. require allies who will listen to each
other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each
other," Obama told adoring crowds in Berlin in 2008. He followed
up that speech one year later in Cairo by quoting verses from the
Koran, acknowledging America's mistakes and calling for a new
partnership with the Muslim world "based upon mutual interest
and mutual respect." Seven years later, the soaring, optimistic
language of those early speeches has long since been subsumed by the
messy reality of war and diplomacy. Obama has not been able to forge a
close rapport with many world leaders.


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