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Is DOD Ready for the Defense Challenges of 2024?

By Barry Pavel

Chuck Hagel’s Press Conference Will Be a Hint With the FY2015 defense budget and the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) both due out next month along within a range of upcoming congressional hearings, how should we assess whether our defense establishment is preparing strategically to meet the key security challenges looming in our future?

Ukraine’s Amb. Shamshur: Risk Remains for Turmoil, Violence

By New Atlanticist

Policy Advisor Warns of Secession Danger As Ukraine establishes a transitional government to replace the fallen President Viktor Yanukovych, the country still risks turmoil and violence in the south and east, Yanukovych’s ethnic Russian base of support. There, local political groups demand closer ties to Russia, and even separation from Ukraine, noted Oleh Shamshur, a […]

Five Lessons from Ukraine’s Revolution

By Rajan Menon

Just when it seemed that Ukraine was lurching toward an all-out civil war that could have spilt the country between a Russophone east and south and a Europe-oriented center and west, feverish mediation by the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland has led to a deal between the embattled regime of President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition. With Yanukovych removed […]

To Avoid Ukraine Catastrophe, Get Tough on Russia

By James Rupert

Brzezinski: US Should Avert Effort by Moscow to Promote Secession With Ukrainian protesters struggling to pull their country toward greater democracy and engagement with Europe, the US and EU governments should set policies to avert any effort by Russia to divide the country by backing the secession of Ukraine’s Russian-speaking regions, says Atlantic Council senior […]

Accord Reached In Ukraine

After the bloodiest week of the crisis in Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders signed a deal to bring resolve the political crisis that has plagued the country since late November.DOWNLOAD

Morocco’s Struggle Against Jihad in Africa

By Atlantic Council

By most accounts, French president Francois Hollande had a successful visit to Washington last week. From my perspective, one of the most promising public outcomes was an op-ed piece, signed by Hollande and President Obama in Washington Post, in which they conveyed together their hopes as well as their fears about the future of Africa.

Venezuela Must Avoid More Violence Over Protests

By New Atlanticist

The United States and its allies should press Venezuela’s government to avoid further violence following the street protests in which five people have been reported killed, the Atlantic Council’s Jason Marczak says. President Nicolas Maduro has seen three weeks of demonstrations intensify following his government’s arrest Tuesday of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. “The protests in […]

How to Avoid All-Out War in Ukraine

By Sabine Freizer

Ukraine is on fire. Though it is part of the same Black Sea region as Turkey and a solid economic partner, Kiev is far from many minds in Turkey. The few that are paying attention are making comparisons between the violence during the Gezi protests and what is happening today in Ukraine’s squares. Some comparisons […]

Ukraine Nears Civil War

By New Atlanticist

US, EU Must Sanction Kyiv Authorities, Wilson Says The newly violent confrontation in Kyiv between the government and protesters has shoved Ukraine’s three-month-old crisis into a new, more dangerous phase that poses increased risk of a civil war, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky says. The attack by police on Tuesday against demonstrators demanding a […]

To Disarm Iran’s Threat, Offer It a Nuclear Future Like Japan’s

By James Rupert

As the international community resumes negotiations February 18 on a way to avert the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, former State Department policy planner Robert Manning says the two sides might work toward a solution that lets Iran build nuclear “fuel cycle” capabilities similar to those of Japan. Manning, an Atlantic Council senior fellow, calls […]