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Dec 5, 2016

There’s More to DC Fashion than Gray Suits and More to Ukraine than War

By Melinda Haring

Vogue cannot get enough of Ukraine’s new designers and eye-catching traditional designs. Since the Euromaidan, the magazine has covered the country’s hot fashion scene half a dozen times. On November 30, seven of Ukraine’s designers were on display at a fashion show in Washington, DC, “to celebrate Ukraine’s creative culture,” said Alexa Chopivsky, executive director […]

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UkraineAlert

Dec 5, 2016

“Ukraine Is Approaching the Turning Point: The Choice Is Reform or Chaos,” Saakashvili Warns

By Diane Francis

Former Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili’s opening remarks at the Kyiv Post’s Tiger Conference on November 29 were puzzling. “Thanks for a couple of cameras,” he said. He was referring to the fact that even though he is a national figure with a resonant message in Ukraine, he’s the victim of a news blackout by the […]

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Swedish Foreign Minister Margo Wallstrom, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini, Dec. 1, 2015

NATOSource

Dec 5, 2016

Sweden and Finland Should Lead EU-NATO Cooperation on Hybrid and Resilience

By Anna Wieslander

When the EU’s heads of state meet in Brussels on December 15 & 16, cooperation with NATO will be on the agenda.

European Union International Organizations
Donald Trump, March 15, 2013

NATOSource

Dec 2, 2016

A NATO Agenda for President-Elect Trump

By Ian Brzezinski, Real Clear Defense

The President-elect should adopt the following priorities as part of his agenda as the de facto leader of the NATO Alliance:

NATO Nuclear Nonproliferation
Russian President Vladimir Putin, June 15, 2016

NATOSource

Dec 2, 2016

Beware: The Russian Bear is Getting Bolder

By Editorial Board, Washington Post

In NATO member Hungary, Russian agents have been fingered for training with a neo-Nazi militia; in the tiny Balkan state of Monte­negro, which is on the verge of joining the transatlantic alliance, Moscow is accused of plotting a violent coup….

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New Atlanticist

Dec 2, 2016

Dispatch from Berlin

By Jasmine El-Gamal

An undercurrent of apprehension regarding global affairs and concern in the aftermath of the US presidential elections defined the 6th Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, held on November 29 by the Körber Foundation in Berlin, Germany. In a wide-ranging and deeply contemplative dialogue, Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance, made the case for a strong […]

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SyriaSource

Dec 2, 2016

France Makes Diplomatic Moves as Eastern Aleppo Nears Collapse

By Daniel R. DePetris

During the second presidential debate on October 9, then-GOP nominee Donald Trump made a bold assessment on the war in Syria—one that officials within the US intelligence and diplomatic communities were reticent to make. The Assad regime, Trump argued, has all but defeated the Syrian opposition in East Aleppo after four years of brutal combat. […]

Syria

UkraineAlert

Dec 2, 2016

Ukraine’s Most Overlooked Reform Could Bring in Billions

By Maxim Martynyuk and Alexei Sobchenko

Of the key battles fought in post-Maidan Ukraine, the one over land reform attracts little attention. That’s a shame, too. Parliament’s unwillingness to allow the sale of private farmland “is the biggest source of immediately available economic growth that the government has failed to utilize,” Swedish economist Anders Åslund has noted. The latest clash over […]

Ukraine

SyriaSource

Dec 2, 2016

The Broken Record Club

By Frederic C. Hof

If inaction indicates thought and feeling, the hell that is eastern Aleppo signifies nothing at all in the mind or heart of he who occupies—for 50 more days—the Oval Office. As civilian neighborhoods targeted mercilessly and criminally by the air forces of the Assad regime and Russia become the “one giant graveyard” described by the […]

Syria

New Atlanticist

Dec 2, 2016

The Gambia Votes: A Rare Victory for Democracy in Africa?

By Kelsey Lilley

The results from The Gambia’s presidential election, which pitted opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) candidate Adama Barrow against longtime president, Yahya Jammeh, made history as they trickled in late at night on December 1. The small West African country, bound on three sides by Senegal, has been ruled for more than two decades by the […]

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