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New Atlanticist

Sep 1, 2016

What Does Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment Mean for Brazil?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Brazil’s Senate on August 31 impeached President Dilma Rousseff, the country’s first female president, on the grounds that she had manipulated the budget to conceal growing economic problems. Jason Marczak, director of the Latin America Economic Growth Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, discussed the implications of the impeachment for Brazil’s […]

Brazil

SyriaSource

Sep 1, 2016

Where Does It End?

By Frederic C. Hof

At least one senior US government official strongly disagrees with the view expressed by this writer that it is the Iran factor—the desire to achieve and protect the nuclear deal—that has stayed the hand of President Obama from using limited military means to protect Syrian civilians from Assad regime atrocities: mass homicide that has had […]

Syria

New Atlanticist

Sep 1, 2016

The UN Goes to South Sudan. Here’s What to Expect.

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Divided Security Council diplomats will likely deliver mixed messages on a rare visit to Juba, said Atlantic Council’s J. Peter Pham A sharply divided United Nations Security Council will likely end up delivering mixed messages this week on a rare visit to South Sudan—a nation that is once more on the brink of full-blown civil […]

East Africa International Organizations
Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow, Feb. 2, 2015

NATOSource

Sep 1, 2016

Vershbow: NATO and Finland Consult ‘at the Highest Levels’

By Alexander Vershbow, NATO

Following our Wales Summit in 2014, Finland became one of NATO’s Enhanced Opportunities Partners (or EOPs), which means more co-ownership, more dialogue on cooperative security, and more interaction together.

NATO NATO Partnerships
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, May 28, 2010

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Sep 1, 2016

Erdogan Government Fueling ‘Unprecedented’ Anti-Americanism in Turkey

By Henri J. Barkey, New York Times

Turkish society has long been steeped in conspiracy theories, but the widespread stoking of anti-Americanism today is unprecedented.

NATO Security & Defense

SyriaSource

Sep 1, 2016

The Art of Burial During War

By Hikmat al-Habbal

In Syria, another tragedy begins after death. People who went out on the streets to change the status quo are surprised at how burial methods have changed and Syrians’ rituals around death are disappearing.

Syria

UkraineAlert

Sep 1, 2016

Paul Manafort’s Ukrainian Legacy

By Sergii Leshchenko

I have seen Paul Manafort twice in my life. The first time was in 2007 during a Ukrainian lunch at Morosani Hotel in Davos, Switzerland, where Viktor Yanukovych came to speak. The second time was at a solemn reception in honor of Yanukovych’s 2010 inauguration at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv; Manfort arrived with oligarch […]

Ukraine

SyriaSource

Sep 1, 2016

Sanctions as a Viable Action in a Complicated Environment

By Susan Waltz & Hossam Abouzahr

When the US Congress returns from its summer recess, the House of Representatives is slated to consider the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2016. The legislation—intended to expand the existing Syrian sanctions regime—is named after “Caesar,” the pseudonym of a military defector who smuggled some 53,000 photographs out of Syria in 2013 documenting the […]

Syria
US soldiers of the 91st Cavalry Regiment, May 11, 2015

NATOSource

Aug 31, 2016

Members of Congress: US Must Stand Strong for Allies and Principles

By Chris Coons and Charlie Dent, Philadelphia Inquirer

As a Republican representative from Pennsylvania and a Democratic senator from Delaware, we disagree on our fair share of issues.

NATO Northern Europe

UkraineAlert

Aug 31, 2016

Anti-Corruption Cases Are Finally Moving Forward in Ukraine

By Adrian Karatnycky

Something is stirring in Ukraine’s war on corruption. Since the Maidan protests of 2013-14 toppled the regime of former President Viktor Yanukovych and revealed the details of the criminality and venality of his inner circle, attacking corruption has been a focal point of public expectations. Important progress has been made on key reforms. Under the […]

Ukraine
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