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This week we ask Emma Ashford to reveal the mysteries of Trump\'s Middle East policy. Then Loren, Radha, and Erin dive into the recent trade dramas before pondering whether the summit with North Korea is best understood as a Rom-Com or Telenovela. Colombian elections, change of command in Afghanistan, and the toxic culture within ICE round out the conversation before we escape to the wonders of pop-culture.\\xa0

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• Emma Ashford and John Glaser, \\u201cUnforced Error: The Risks of Confrontation with Iran,\\u201d\\xa0CATO Institute
• Emma Ashford, \\u201cUnbalanced Rethinking America\\u2019s Commitment to the Middle East,\\u201d\\xa0Strategy Studies Quarterly
• Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford, \\u201cPower Problems,\\u201d\\xa0CATO Institute\\xa0
• Runrig,\\xa0Loch Lomond
• \\u201cColombians vote for new president with peace deal, economy at stake,\\u201d\\xa0Reuters
• Camila Zuluaga, \\u201cColombia, trapped between extremes,\\u201d\\xa0Washington Post
• Ana Swanson, \\u201cTrump Administration Plans to Revive ZTE, Prompting Backlash,\\u201d\\xa0New York Times
• Shawn Donnan, \\u201cTrump car tariffs highlight threat of retaliatory trade war,\\u201d\\xa0Financial Times
• Jonathan Landay and Rupam Jain, \\u201cU.S. sanctions on Iran threaten vital Afghanistan trade project,\\u201d\\xa0Reuters
• Jeremy Diamond, \\u201cPeter Navarro and Steven Mnuchin feuded at Beijing trade talks,\\u201d\\xa0CNN
• Daniel W. Drezner, \\u201cTargeted Sanctions in a World of Global Finance,\\u201d\\xa0Research on Economic Sanctions
• Kanga Kong, \\u201cBudding Moon-Kim Bromance Poses Risk to Trump Pressure Campaign,\\u201d\\xa0Bloomberg
• Laura Rosenberger, \\u201cKim Jong Un is better off now than he was before Trump agreed to a summit,\\u201d\\xa0Washington Post
• Ilan Goldenberg, \\u201cTrump Has No Idea How Diplomatic Deals Work,\\u201d\\xa0Foreign Policy
• Patrick M. Cronin and Abigail Grace, \\u201cTrump Leaves the Door Open for Another North Korea Summit,\\u201d\\xa0CNAS
• Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman, and David D. Kirkpatrick, \\u201cTrump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election,\\u201d\\xa0New York Times
• Dara Lind, \\u201cTrump\\u2019s DHS is using an extremely dubious statistic to justify splitting up families at the border,\\u201d\\xa0Vox
• Dara Lind,\\xa0Tweet\\xa0(25 May 2018)

Lizzie Plaugic, \\u201cAmazon is adapting William Gibson\\u2019s The Peripheral into a TV series,\\u201d\\xa0Verge