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New Atlanticist

Jun 18, 2018

The DETER Act Will Not Deter Russia. It Will Instead Hurt US, EU Economies

By Daniel Fried and Brian O'Toole

With hints that the DETER Act [the Defending Elections from Threats by Establishing Redlines Act of 2018] may be under some consideration in the National Defense Authorization Act process going on in Congress, we would like to highlight our analysis from earlier this year for consideration by any involved in the negotiations and potentially affected […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 18, 2018

Framing a Trump-Putin Meeting: A Short Guide to US-Russia Summits Past

By Daniel Fried

As we contemplate the promise and peril of the July 16 meeting between US President Donald J. Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, past US-Russia summits can provide a guide to what can go right and what can go very, very wrong when American and Russian leaders meet.

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UkraineAlert

Jun 18, 2018

Five Ways the Kremlin Can Meddle in Ukraine’s Big Election

By Mykola Vorobiov

On June 15, Yulia Tymoshenko launched the start of Ukraine’s presidential election season with a two-and-half hour speech in Kyiv, Ukraine. With twenty-nine percent of voters telling pollsters they haven’t made their minds up for the race slated for March 31, the field is wide open. But it’s not too soon to start worrying about […]

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IranSource

Jun 18, 2018

How Recent Protests Could Revive Ahmadinejad’s Fortunes in Iran

By Giorgia Perletta

Until recently, few observers inside or outside Iran gave much weight to the notion of a comeback for discredited former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The disqualification of Ahmadinejad and his former top aide, Esfandiyar Rahim Mashaei, for the presidency in 2017, followed by the arrests of Mashaei and former vice president Hamid Baghaei on charges of […]

Iran

New Atlanticist

Jun 17, 2018

Avoiding a NATO Train Wreck

By Frederick Kempe

This much is predictable. The world’s most successful and enduring alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is facing a potential transatlantic train wreck of American making when it meets in Brussels July 11-12, its first full-fledged summit of the Trump administration. Unless President Donald Trump shifts his thinking and actions before then, a toxic political […]

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 16, 2018

Beyond the Trump-Kim Summit: A Coalition is Critical for Achieving Denuclearization

By Ashish Kumar Sen

In the wake of US President Donald J. Trump’s June 12 summit with North Korean leader  Kim Jong-un, R. Nicholas Burns, an Atlantic Council board member who served as US undersecretary of state from 2005 to 2008, discussed the tough work that lies ahead and lessons from a not too distant past.

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New Atlanticist

Jun 15, 2018

A Call to Work Together

By Valerie Rouxel-Laxton

Institutions and fora such as the United Nations, the Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Trade Organization, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the G-groups are based on the organizing principle of multilateralism. After World War II, they have helped nation states coexist in a peaceful and relatively prosperous environment. Nowadays, they face criticism […]

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin at Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on June 25, 2012.

IranSource

Jun 15, 2018

The Art of the (Russian-Israeli) Deal

By Ehud Eiran

On June 1, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya told the press that he “believes” that his country and Israel reached an agreement regarding “certain disengagement in the southwest of Syria.” Other sources reported that the agreement will include the withdrawal of Iranian and Iranian-backed forces from the Syrian-Israeli border in return for implicit […]

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New Atlanticist

Jun 15, 2018

FIFA’s Own Goal: Soccer Federation Needs to Do More to Press Russia on LGBTI Rights

By Jonny Gass

From now until July 15, one million soccer fans will descend on Russia for the twenty-first Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup, 3.4 billion people will watch from virtually every country and territory on Earth, and Russia will profit from immense global attention, an economic boon, and the fame that comes from hosting […]

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Heiko Maas, February 4, 2011 (photo: SPD Schleswig-Holstein).

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2018

Germany’s Foreign Minister Calls for ‘A Real European Security and Defense Union’

By Heiko Mass, German Foreign Ministry

That world order that we once knew, had become accustomed to and sometimes felt comfortable in – this world order no longer exists.

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