Julianne Smith is a senior fellow and director of the strategy and statecraft program at the Center for a New American Security. From 2012-2013 she served as deputy national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden. Before that, she was director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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