| Quote of the Week:
“The fact that our friend and ally [the U.S.] has come to question the very worth of its mantle of global leadership puts into sharper focus the need for the rest of us to set our own clear and sovereign course. For Canada that course must be the renewal, indeed the strengthening, of the postwar multilateral order.”
— Chrystia Freeland, Foreign Minister of Canada, in a speech on June 6 to her nation’s legislature. |
Retreat of U.S. Leadership?
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| “Trump Pulling Out of the Paris Climate Agreement Is Great News… for China” Zeeshan Aleem — Vox, June 3, 2017
“Trump’s Decision to Ditch the Climate Agreement Will Help America Negotiate Better Deals” Nicolas Loris — The National Interest, June 6, 2017
“Trump’s Catastrophic Climate Decision Imperils the Planet — and Hasten’s American Decline” Stewart M. Patrick — CFR, June 1, 2017
“A Conservative Free Market Approach for Renegotiating the Paris Climate Agreement” Jeffrey Dorfman — Forbes, June 7, 2017
“Climate Change Will Mean More Rain for Some and None for Others” Kendra Pierre-Louis — Popular Science, June 1, 2017 |
| Gulf States Cut Ties with Qatar |
| “Will Qatar’s Diplomatic Exile Spark the Next Great War?” Simon Henderson — Foreign Policy, June 5, 2017
“Squeezing Qatar to Make Hamas Scream” Walter Russell Mead — Hudson Institute, June 6, 2017
“Hacking, Bots, and Information Wars in the Qatar Spat” Marc Jones — The Washington Post, June 7, 2017
“Saudi – Qatar’s True Battleground Is Asia” David Fickling — Bloomberg Gadfly, June 6, 2017 |
| Britain Goes to the Polls |
| 70th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan |
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