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New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2018

Trump Increased Sanctions Pressure on Venezuela

By Eleanor Jackson

This article is part of a series that reflects on one year of the Trump administration. The United States has ramped up sanctions on the Venezuelan regime, including Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2018

Trump Gets Tough on Pakistan

By Ashish Kumar Sen

This article is part of a series that reflects on the first year of the Trump administration. US President Donald J. Trump started off 2018 with a tweet blasting Pakistan for providing safe havens to terrorists. Days later, the Trump administration cut off what is expected to be $1.3 billion in annual security aid to […]

Pakistan

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2018

Fate of Iran Nuclear Deal Hangs in the Balance

By Ashish Kumar Sen

This article is part of a series reflecting on the first year of the Trump administration. US President Donald J. Trump has threatened to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal unless the United States’ European allies and the US Congress fix what he believes to be a “disastrously flawed” agreement.

Iran

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2018

Trump Reversed Obama’s Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan

By Bharath Gopalaswamy

This article is part of a series that reflects on the first year of the Trump administration. US President Donald J. Trump reversed former President Barack Obama’s policy to pull US troops out of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2018

On North Korea, More Continuity than Change

By Todd Rosenblum

This article is part of a series reflecting on the first year of the Trump administration.  North Korea’s march toward a nuclear weapon presented US President Donald J. Trump with his first international crisis. Though difficult to see against the backdrop of missile tests and inflammatory rhetoric, Trump’s approach to the situation has maintained a […]

Korea

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2018

Trump’s Wise Policy on Russia

By John E. Herbst

This article is part of a series that reflects on the first year of the Trump administration. As a candidate and president-elect, Donald Trump spoke constantly about the need to improve relations with Russia.  He also spoke positively about Russian President Vladimir Putin.  During Trump’s first weeks in office, his administration began to look seriously […]

Russia

UkraineAlert

Jan 18, 2018

Ukraine’s Making Real Progress in the Energy Sector

By Olga Bielkova

Energy independence is a question of national security for Ukraine, and one that we worked on assiduously in 2017. Most observers know that Naftogaz emerged victorious in an $80 billion arbitration case in Stockholm, but that’s only part of the story. Here are the big five milestones that really mattered for the energy sector last […]

Russia Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2018

Offshore drilling in an era of energy abundance

By Ellen Scholl

In just under one hundred days in office, Trump signed Executive Order 13795: Implementing an America-First Offshore Energy Strategy.

Oil and Gas United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2018

Trump Recognized Jerusalem. Then What?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

This article is part of a series that reflects on the first year of the Trump administration. Although Trump recognized Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital, he didn’t describe it as the undivided capital of Israel. Why does this matter?

Israel

SyriaSource

Jan 18, 2018

The New Strategy—Good Enough?

By Frederic C. Hof

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s Stanford University “Remarks on the Way Forward for the United States Regarding Syria” depict a major improvement in the American approach to the crisis in Syria, one consistent in many respects with recommendations offered here over the past five years. Officially gone is President Barack Obama’s disastrously erroneous view—opposed by […]

Syria
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