Center for Strategic Communication

What We Are Reading…June 10, 2014

MIT at Center of Political Power Play Tracy Jan  / The New York Times The school’s prized fusion reactor was dead; its federal funding axed. Then its political allies went to work. Iraq Militants Control Second City of Mosul BBC Iraq’s prime minister has asked...

TTIP Benefits Go Well Beyond Economics

For decades, the European Union has been the gold standard among transnational organizations, gradually linking sovereign nations together through the free movement of labor and the formation of a currency union. For a European, passing from Germany to France isn’t...

What We Are Reading… May 29, 2014

Obama Outlines Foreign Policy Vision of ‘Might and Right’ Defense Tom Cohen / CNN President Barack Obama on Wednesday outlined a foreign policy vision of “might doing right,” arguing that modern pragmatism requires both a strong military and the diplomatic...

EU Elections: Implications for the US – Event Review

American Security Project hosted Paul Adamson, Phillipe Maze-Sencier, and Geoffrey Harris for a discussion centering on the political, social, and economic implications of last weekend’s European Parliamentary elections. Victories for extremist parties across Europe...

EU Parliament Election Recap

European Union leaders will meet tonight in Brussels to discuss last weekend’s Parliamentary election results in which voters decidedly voiced their discontent with the status quo. Extremist parties on both the right and left boasted strong results in the UK, France,...