Category: In the News

Kroenig quoted in Fox News on US embassy evacuation

By Atlantic Council

On February 28, Scowcroft Center deputy director Matthew Kroenig was quoted in Fox News arguing that the decision to shut down the US embassy in Kiev was the “correct and prudent move.”

Nia quoted in The Guardian on Syrian and Iranian officials human rights violations and their potential war crime cases to ICC

By Atlantic Council

Friendlander interviewed by Lawfare on how the scope and effectiveness of sanctions against Russia

Listen to the podcast here.

Manning and Burrows in Foreign Policy: The US can’t afford a double Cold War

By Atlantic Council

On March 28, Mathew Burrows and Robert Manning published an article in Foreign Policy making the case that the United States cannot afford to have a double Cold War with China and Russia. “Fighting a two-front new cold war would mean far higher military expenditures, great uncertainty weighing down the global economy, and a diversion […]

Kroenig in the Irish Times on Russia’s nuclear threat

By Atlantic Council

Scowcroft Center deputy director Matthew Kroenig explains that Putin's heightened nuclear alert is textbook Russian strategy and likely a bluff.

Friendlander interviewed by Yahoo Finance on the West blocking Russia from SWIFT and Russia’s economic outlook

Watch the full interview here.

Shaffer for Foreign Policy: Putin Just Pushed the World Into an Even Bigger Energy Crisis

Friendlander quoted in Wall Street Journal how Western sanctions on Russia will impact global monetary and macro stability

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Polymeropoulos in Washington Monthly on US covert assistance to Ukraine

By Atlantic Council

Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Marc Polymeropoulos recommends to the Washington Monthly that the US covertly provide assistance to the Ukrainian resistance.

Mezran quoted in The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington on Libya’s presidential crisis and democratic backsliding

By Atlantic Council