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Testimony

Mar 15, 2016

Six Ways the US Can Defeat Putin and Bolster Ukraine

By Ian Brzezinski

The transatlantic community has a significant stake in assuring Ukraine’s trajectory as a modern, democratic, and prosperous European state. A strategy to assist Ukraine in accomplishing that objective must impose greater economic and geopolitical costs on Russia for its aggression, enhance Ukraine’s capacity for self-defense, assist Kyiv’s efforts to reform its political and economic institutions, […]

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Mar 15, 2016

Herbst and Brzezinski Testify Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Ukrainian Reforms After Russia’s Invasion

By John Herbst and Ian Brzezinksi

Read testimony from The Hon. John E. Herbst here.

Russia Ukraine

Event Recap

Mar 11, 2016

Japan’s Energy Priorities and Policies in the MENA Region

By Atlantic Council

On March 10, 2016 the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and Global Energy Center hosted a panel of distinguished Japan- and Washington-based experts for a discussion on “Japan’s Energy Priorities and Policies in the MENA Region.”

Japan Middle East

Event Recap

Mar 10, 2016

Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire

By Eurasia Center

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal of restoring his country’s role in shaping the politics and policies of its near-neighbors—nations that were once part of the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire—is rooted in Tsarist “Russification policies,” according to Agnia Grigas, the author of a new book that takes a systematic look at the Kremlin’s policies […]

Russia Ukraine

Event Recap

Mar 9, 2016

Lula’s Detention: Implications for President Rousseff and the Brazilian Economy Conference Call

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Hours before Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was charged in the midst of a corruption investigation, the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center held a conference call on March 9 to discuss the increasing polarization in the country. The call featured Brazilian analysts Pedro Dias Leite, Politics Editor of Veja magazine; Gabriel […]

Event Recap

Mar 8, 2016

Finding Traction for TTIP: Perspectives on the US-UK Trade Relationship feat. UK Trade Minister Lord Francis Maude

By Future Europe Initiative

On March 8, the Atlantic Council hosted a private lunch discussion with UK Minister of State for Trade and Investment, the Rt. Hon. Lord Maude of Horsham. Lord Maude was accompanied by his appointed successor, Lord Price, who will take up the duties of trade minister in April.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series

Mar 4, 2016

A US strategy for sustainable energy security

By Scowcroft Center

On Friday, March 4, 2016 from 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. the Strategy Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security released its second Atlantic Council Strategy Paper, “A US Strategy for Sustainable Energy Security.” The paper, written by the Atlantic Council’s Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative Director David Koranyi and which features a […]

Event Recap

Mar 4, 2016

RSA Conference

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter visited a cyber wargame run by Nonresident Senior Fellows from the Atlantic Council at this year’s RSA conference, the largest global cybersecurity conference.

Event Recap

Mar 3, 2016

Human Rights Abuses in Putin’s Russia

By Eurasia Center

Boris Nemtsov’s legacy and his final project—exposing the Kremlin’s role in the war in Ukraine—were remembered at an event in Washington to mark the first anniversary of his assassination. “He was a man of great values,” said Paula J. Dobriansky, a Senior Fellow at Harvard University and an Atlantic Council board director. Nemtsov was shot […]

Russia Ukraine

Event Recap

Feb 26, 2016

Strategy Session with Latvian Foreign Minister H.E. Edgars Rinkēvičs

By Future Europe Initiative

The Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative held an invitation-only, single-table strategy session on NATO strategy and the Warsaw Summit with H.E. Edgars Rinkēvičs, Foreign Minister of Latvia, on Friday, February 26, 2016. As we approach the 2016 NATO Warsaw Summit, a robust Nordic-Baltic security strategy is key to transatlantic security in the face of the […]

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