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Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Russian President Vladimir Putin, March 22, 2016

NATOSource

Sep 8, 2016

Finland and The Unpredictable Neighbor

By René Nyberg

Great empires do not go away quietly.

NATO NATO Partnerships

UkraineAlert

Sep 7, 2016

The Russian Balance Sheet at Hangzhou

By Stephen Blank

The recent G-20 meetings in Hangzhou, China provide a useful balance sheet for assessing Russia’s status in Europe. While Russian President Vladimir Putin showed that Russia is not as isolated as many in the West think it should be, Putin failed to convince France and Germany to pressure Ukraine to implement the Minsk II ceasefire […]

Russia Ukraine

Trade in Action

Sep 7, 2016

TTIP&TRADE in Action – September 7, 2016

By Global Business & Economics Program

G20 World Leaders, including US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping, in Hangzhou, China September 4-5

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

MENASource

Sep 7, 2016

Regional Priorities for Egypt and the Next US Administration

By Zack Gold and Elissa Miller

In a series of interviews with state media at the end of August, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gave insight into his views toward foreign policy, economics, and domestic politics. Sisi’s remarks on Libya and Syria in particular reflect the threat perceptions to national security driving Egypt’s foreign policy in the region and should be carefully […]

North Africa

SyriaSource

Sep 7, 2016

Education in Idlib: The Kids Aren’t Alright

By Tirwada Abd al-Haqq

There is no effective difference between the Syrian state and some of forces engaged in conflict in Syria, despite the different names which they’ve given themselves: the regime in power, revolutionaries, armed opposition, Islamist factions, and so on. Each is trying to hold the country hostage, and none are blameless when it comes to the […]

Syria
Logo of European BattleGroups

NATOSource

Sep 6, 2016

Post-Brexit, EU Moves Toward Deeper Military Integration

By Bruno Waterfield, The Times (London)

EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini told ambassadors yesterday she would table the “road map” to take advantage of “political space” opened by the Brexit vote.

European Union International Organizations
EU High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini, June 28, 2016

NATOSource

Sep 6, 2016

Mogherini: We Need to Change the ‘Institutional Structure’ of EU Defense and Security

By Federica Mogherini, European External Action Service

I see the focus on implementation on four specific areas.

European Union International Organizations
EU High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini, Sept. 3, 2016

NATOSource

Sep 6, 2016

Mogherini Dismisses Likelihood of European Army, But Seeks Deployment of EU Battlegroups

By Federica Mogherini, European External Action Service

Today there was a general agreement, actually a unanimous agreement, on the fact that not only that the Global Strategy is excellent, but also the plans for implementation are what we need now.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Sep 6, 2016

It’s Too Soon to Write Off Angela Merkel

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Angela Merkel has acknowledged that the setback her party suffered in elections in an eastern state this past weekend was a repudiation of her welcome to Syrian migrants, but the Atlantic Council’s Fran Burwell said backing away from this controversial policy will only hurt the German chancellor further. “The voters would be more skeptical of […]

European Union Germany

UkraineAlert

Sep 6, 2016

The German-Russian Relationship: It’s Complicated

By Andreas Umland

There’s a growing perception in Germany that the Minsk ceasefire agreements may never be implemented and the conflict in Ukraine will continue to grind on. To examine the origins and nature of the conflict as well as its possible solution and the role Bavaria may play in these affairs, the German-Ukrainian NGO Kyiv Dialogue held […]

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