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NATO 20/2020

Twenty bold ideas to reimagine the Alliance after the 2020 US election

More than two decades after NATO’s inspired decision to invite former adversaries to join its ranks, the Alliance is in need of equally captivating ideas. The essays in this volume are intended to push the Alliance to think boldly and creatively in the service of recapturing the public’s imagination.

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Aug 4, 2022

Svetlova quoted in Jewish Insider about Jordan-Israel talks

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Israel Middle East

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Aug 4, 2022

Sadat and Siegel in the Hill on space traffic management

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Mir Sadat and Julia Siegel on "Space Traffic Management: Time for Action."

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Aug 4, 2022

Svetlova in Times of Israel: Exiled oligarch in Israel – Putin doesn’t want to annex Ukraine, but to destroy it

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Israel Politics & Diplomacy

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Aug 4, 2022

Ahmad published in The Hill: After al-Zawahiri, what’s next for America’s Taliban policy?

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Afghanistan Politics & Diplomacy

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Aug 3, 2022

Sadat and Siegel in SpaceNews on space traffic management

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Mir Sadat and Julia Siegel advance the discussion on space traffic management.

Defense Policy Defense Technologies

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Aug 3, 2022

Pfaff in United States Army War College Press: Coercing Fluently-The Grammar of Coercion in the Twenty-first Century

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Lipner in The National News: Is Israel warming up for a nuclear showdown with Iran?

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Iran Israel

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Aug 3, 2022

Svetlova in The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune: The lost opportunity of Mahmoud Abbas

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Israel Middle East

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Sales quoted in The Los Angeles Times on the state of terrorism in Afghanistan

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Afghanistan Security & Defense

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Panikoff joins TRT World to discuss Biden’s visit to the Middle East

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Middle East Politics & Diplomacy