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Jul 14, 2014

Column: Religion, Sports Exchanges Bring Iranians and Americans Closer

By Barbara Slavin

While U.S. and Iranian negotiators labor to reach a long-term nuclear agreement, other Americans and Iranians are stepping up contacts in a new wave of people-to-people diplomacy. In recent months, three American religious delegations have visited Iran while the first group of female Iranian seminary students came to the United States. Sports exchanges are also […]

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Jul 10, 2014

Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

By Stephen J. Hadley

The following is the prepared remarks of Atlantic Council Board Director Stephen J. Hadley before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 9 about Russia and the ongoing developments in Ukraine.

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Jul 7, 2014

Don’t Panic: Russia’s Energy Pivot to Asia and European Energy Security

By David Koranyi

Russia’s Energy Pivot to Asia and European Energy Security After almost a decade of haggling, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed an agreement on Russian gas supplies to China in late May. The contracts stipulates Russia’s obligation to supply 38 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas annually for 30 years through […]

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Jul 2, 2014

Here’s How NATO Can Open a Path to Membership for Georgia

By Edward P. Joseph and Mamuka Tsereteli

Amid Ukraine Crisis, US Should Push to Remove an Obstacle Mae West once said that “an ounce of performance is worth a pound of promises.” For Georgians, to whom NATO promised eventual membership in the alliance back in 2008, truer words have never been spoken. NATO’s standard procedure is to require candidate member states to […]

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Jul 2, 2014

Column: Israel Shouldn’t Turn Tragedy into Fiasco

By Barbara Slavin

The murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank has sent shock waves through Israeli and Palestinian society and raised fears that the relatively quiescent Arab-Israeli front will explode into a new war. A stormy Israeli cabinet session considered a variety of retaliatory options for the killings of Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal […]

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Jun 30, 2014

If NATO Delays Path to Georgia’s Membership, What Is the Alternative?

By Tedo Japaridze

Alliance’s September Summit Must Offer ‘Concrete,’ Not ‘Token’ Help as Georgia Faces Russia In the same week that the European Union signed an association agreement with Georgia on June 27, NATO officials meeting in Brussels decided not to offer the country a formal plan this year to achieve membership in the alliance. If ‘no’ is […]

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Jun 27, 2014

EU Leadership Change: What’s at Stake for Europe and the US?

By Marten Van Heuven

Sometime soon, the prospect of the European holiday calendar will force the pace, and the European Union will have a new management team. A new European Commission will alter relations among member states and between them and the European institutions in Brussels. Of course, it will not put an end to the tug and pull […]

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Jun 23, 2014

Russia’s Igor Ivanov and Germany’s Wolfgang Ischinger: A Dialogue on Ukraine

By The Atlantic Council

   Igor Ivanov, the former Russian foreign minister, is president of the Russian International Affairs Council, Russia’s most prominent international relations think tank. Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German deputy foreign minister, has been chairman of the Munich Security Conference since 2008, and recently has been a distinguished scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington. (He also […]

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Jun 19, 2014

Ready for Hillary Clinton?

By Nicholas Burns

The seismic shocks rocking the Middle East this week — renewed war in Iraq, an emerging radical Sunni Caliphate, and a possible independent Kurdistan — remind us anew that, before politicians jump into the race to succeed President Obama, they better have serious foreign policy credentials.

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Jun 18, 2014

Column: Obama has Ample Authority to Relieve Iran Sanctions

By Barbara Slavin

WASHINGTON — As negotiations with Iran enter the home stretch this week in Vienna, the ability of the U.S. government to relieve economic sanctions on Iran is likely to emerge as a major factor in determining whether Tehran will accept significant restrictions on its nuclear program.

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