Category: Timely Commentary & Analysis

Stronger Sanctions are Needed to Stop Putin

By Nicholas Burns

VLADIMIR PUTIN has broken all the rules of geopolitics in Ukraine over the last five months. He finally had to pay for his actions this week. The coordinated list of tougher financial, military, and energy sanctions announced by the United States and European Union is a potential turning point. But is it enough to convince […]

Transcript: Wartime Diplomacy

By The Atlantic Council

ATLANTIC COUNCIL Wartime Diplomacy: A Discussion with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Pavlo Klimkin Welcome: Fred Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council Moderator: Damon Wilson, Executive Vice President, Atlantic Council Speaker: H.E. Pavlo Klimkin, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Location: Washington, D.C. Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 Transcript by Federal News Service Washington, D.C.

Beware the Great Clash in Asia: China vs. America Is Getting Dangerous

By Robert A. Manning

Washington has pursued a policy cooperating with Beijing where interests overlapped—but the dynamics in the Asia-Pacific are changing. A little bit of honesty in U.S. policy toward Asia could go a long way in piercing the Chinese “victim narrative”, which entails China’s view that everything it dislikes in Asia is an outgrowth of a U.S. […]

Column: Free Jason Rezaian, Other Iranian American Detainees

By Barbara Slavin

All Iranian Americans who travel to Iran know they face a certain amount of risk. Obliged to use Iranian passports instead of obtaining visas like other Americans, Iranian Americans can easily be barred from leaving the country and become pawns in the three-decade-old U.S.-Iran confrontation as well as in Iran’s complicated domestic political battles. The […]

Impact of Corruption on Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova

On Tuesday, July 29th, the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center hosted an off-the-record private strategy session on the impact of corruption in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, co-organized with the Legatum Institute of London, and the Institute of Modern Russia at the Atlantic Council. The session featured discussants Oliver Bullough, award winning journalist and author; Peter Pomerantsev, […]

Brzezinski Testifies Before House Committee on Downed MH17

By Ian Brzezinski

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski testifies before the House Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats and the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade on the subject of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and the escalating crisis in Ukraine: