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Friday, August 14, 2015

Republican Candidates Outsource Their Foreign Policy

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-14/republican-candidates-outsource-their-foreign-policy

Republican Candidates Outsource Their Foreign Policy

9 Aug 14, 2015 
There's a good reason so many GOP candidates seem to be well-prepared yet uncannily in sync when it comes to foreign policy: Most of them have tapped the same group of experts for guidance, a shadow foreign policy campaign infrastructure just waiting for a nominee to emerge.
Ever since Mitt Romney lost the race in 2012, his foreign policy team has been working to remain intact, become a resource for as many primary candidates as possible, and position itself to influence the next president, if he or she is a Republican. For candidates who haven't the time or resources to build their own foreign policy staffs at this stage, the project, called the John Hay Initiative, is a handy tool to get smart fast on complicated subjects and even hand off some heavy lifting on national security issues.
For the party itself, the group's omnipresence behind the scenes is shaping a hawkish, right-of-Hillary-Clinton foreign policy agenda that is quickly becoming the established position of the party hopefuls going into 2016.http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-14/republican-candidates-outsource-their-foreign-policy

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