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New Atlanticist

Aug 31, 2022

Without Gorbachev, Reagan wouldn’t have won the Cold War

By Thom Shanker

Victory and success, the late Soviet leader once said, can only be found when all parties feel they have won something.

Democratic Transitions Politics & Diplomacy

EnergySource

Aug 31, 2022

Closing nuclear generation amounts to running in place on climate

By Stephen S. Greene

Retiring nuclear plants is the wrong climate move. It jeopardizes energy security, makes grids less reliable, and forces clean energy that could be better used displacing fossil fuel generation to make up for the shortfall.

Energy & Environment Energy Transitions

Experts react

Aug 30, 2022

What legacy does Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, leave behind?

By Atlantic Council experts

Our experts examine Gorbachev's complicated legacy and wonder: What could have been?

Eastern Europe Europe & Eurasia

MENASource

Aug 30, 2022

Experts react: Muqtada al-Sadr withdraws from politics. What’s next for Iraq amid a deep political rupture?

By Abbas Kadhim, C. Anthony Pfaff, Barbara Slavin, Andrew L. Peek, Masoud Mostajabi

Atlantic Council experts react to the news of Muqtada aSadr’s resignation and offer their thoughts on how the international community will deal with the conflict moving forward.

Iraq Middle East

AfricaSource

Aug 30, 2022

Inaction to reform the international development system is not an option anymore

By Rama Yade

Africans are looking at the United States’ focus on the war in Ukraine and on tensions in the Indo-Pacific, and they’re wondering: Will the United States truly consider African countries as strategic partners as China and Russia claim to do?

Africa International Financial Institutions

New Atlanticist

Aug 30, 2022

Deal or no deal, Chinese firms will still ditch Wall Street

By Jeremy Mark

Despite a recent US-China agreement designed to end a decade-long auditing dispute, the era of Chinese firms' unfettered access to US equity markets is ending.

China Economy & Business

UkraineAlert

Aug 30, 2022

The Ukrainian military must reorganize to defeat Russia

By Richard D. Hooker, Jr.

Ukraine has achieved military miracles to derail Russia's invasion plans but reorganization of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is necessary if the country is to be fully liberated from Russian occupation, writes Richard D. Hooker, Jr.

Conflict Defense Industry

UkraineAlert

Aug 30, 2022

Decolonizing Crimean history

By Oleksandra Gaidai

A new online educational initiative is aiming to decolonize Crimean history and challenge the problematic international tendency to view the lands of the former Soviet Union through a Russian prism.

Civil Society Conflict

EnergySource

Aug 30, 2022

The Just Energy Transition Partnership with South Africa will hinge on domestic reform

By Christopher Cassidy

The JETP's impact lies not in its financial heft, but in its stipulations for domestic reform. The agreement could prime South Africa to take advantage of future investment in its energy sector and eventually decarbonize at speed.

Africa Energy & Environment
A woman pushes a bicycle past residential buildings destroyed in a Russian missile attack on Chaplyne urban-type settlement, Dnipropetrovsk Region, central Ukraine, August 24, 2022. The strike on the residential sector and the railway station carried out by Russian occupiers on Ukraine's 31st Independence Day claimed the lives of 25 people, including an 11-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl, while 31 people got injured. Photo by Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use Russia.

New Atlanticist

Aug 26, 2022

Russian War Report: Russian missile strike targets railway station

By Digital Forensic Research Lab

During Ukraine's Independence Day celebrations, a Russian missile struck a railway station, killing fifteen and wounding another fifty.

Conflict Disinformation