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UkraineAlert

Jul 24, 2018

Drones, Video Cameras, and Online Searches: How One Team Catches Ukraine’s Crooks

By Josh Cohen

Exposing corrupt Ukrainian judges and prosecutors might sound dangerous, but for Kate Butko, it’s nothing compared to what she’s previously dealt with. Butko runs PROSUD, an eleven-person project founded in 2016 by activists from the Automaidan, an anticorruption nongovernmental organization that organized car owners during the Euromaidan. Funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and […]

SyriaSource

Jul 24, 2018

The fractured relationship of the Alawite community and Assad regime

By Saleem al-Omar

The Alawite community, a Muslim sect from which the Assad family originates, has long been a major support base for both Hafez and Bashar al-Assad. Current estimates of the Alawite population place the group around 10 percent of the 22 million population. The regime historically favored Alawites giving them military and security positions within the […]

Syria

IranSource

Jul 24, 2018

Trump’s Twitter War Unites Iranian Factions and Bolsters Rouhani

By Holly Dagres

As is so often the case with the current occupant of the White House, a presidential tweet muddied the message of the rest of the Trump administration. Iranians had been focusing on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “Supporting Iranian Voices” event at the California-based Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library. But shortly after Pompeo finished […]

Iran

UkraineAlert

Jul 24, 2018

Ukrainians Want New Leaders. Here’s How They Can Bring in Fresh Faces

By Brian Mefford

It’s no surprise that public opinion polls show that Ukrainians are largely disappointed with the same old faces and choices in politics. The candidates expected to run in the 2019 presidential election aren’t new. Out of frustration with the unaccountability of the current parliament, there was a big push this spring to switch to an […]

Ukraine

FutureSource

Jul 24, 2018

Tech Revolt: Why Are Silicon Valley Employees Fighting Government Contracts?

By Giulia Neaher

We live in an increasingly technological world—Fitbits monitor our health, Alexa organizes our homes, and social media guide our social lives. Global efforts to develop and implement artificial intelligence (AI) are escalating into what some call an arms race, and cybersecurity is becoming a central security concern as hacking of governments and tech companies occurs […]

UkraineAlert

Jul 24, 2018

What Do the Brussels and Helsinki Summits Mean for Ukraine?

By Stephen Blank

Before the NATO summit in Brussels and the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, many observers were apprehensive about Ukraine’s prospects at these events. As it turned out, in Brussels, NATO strongly supported Ukraine’s sovereignty and integrity. The alliance committed to further development of the bilateral partnership, encouraged Ukraine to make the best use of its opportunities […]

NATO Russia

New Atlanticist

Jul 24, 2018

Will Trump-Juncker Meeting Defuse a Trade War?

By David Wemer

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will meet with US President Donald J. Trump at the White House on July 25 in an attempt to calm fears of a trade war between Europe and the United States. Juncker will arrive in Washington amidst considerable tension between the United States and the European Union (EU), which has […]

Economy & Business European Union

New Atlanticist

Jul 23, 2018

Trade in Services Agreement: A Way Out of the Trade War?

By Barbara C. Matthews, Earl Anthony Wayne and Cecilia Pan

US President Donald J. Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker are expected to discuss ways to defuse the trade war between the United States and the European Union (EU) when they meet at the White House on July 25. This escalating situation, which also involves China, has brought increased attention to trade in goods, […]

Economy & Business

UkraineAlert

Jul 23, 2018

Russia has no place in the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine

By Paul Niland

It will be difficult to get some other OSCE member countries, allies of Russia, to accept that unanimity minus one should now be applied in Ukraine. But at the very least, this conversation should be opened.

OSCE Russia

IranSource

Jul 23, 2018

Trump’s Angry Iran Tweet

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald J. Trump, in a late-night, all-caps tweet on July 22, threatened Iran with “consequences the likes of which few throughout history have suffered before” if Iranian leaders continued to threaten the United States with war. Trump’s tweet was an apparent response to a comment by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to Iranian diplomats […]

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