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Apr 6, 2020

Real Leaders Podcast: The Impact of Pandemics with Dr. David Bray

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Dr. David Bray, inaugural director for the Atlantic Council’s new GeoTech Center and former IT Chief for the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, joins the Real Leaders Podcast to talk about the response, nature, and impact of pandemics. He lead the program’s technology response during 9/11, the […]

Resilience & Society Security & Defense

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Apr 6, 2020

Bryza joins Azerbaijan’s CBC TV to discuss coronavirus in the Caspian region

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Coronavirus Europe & Eurasia

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Apr 6, 2020

Blakemore quoted in Energy Wire on Trump’s oil meeting

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Energy & Environment Oil and Gas

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Apr 6, 2020

Cohen in Newsweek: The Covid-19 Disaster Has Been Decades in the Making—and Both Republicans and Democrats are to Blame

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Human history is replete with unanticipated catastrophic events that come like a bolt from the blue. During World War II, both Nazi Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor came as strategic surprises. Then as now, intelligence warnings were ignored. Other shockers include the Egyptian and Syrian attack on […]

Coronavirus Politics & Diplomacy

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Apr 6, 2020

Shaffer joins Bloomberg to discuss international oil markets

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Coronavirus Energy & Environment

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Apr 6, 2020

Livingston quoted in NBC News on the impact of a potential oil deal between Saudi Arabia and Russia on the United States

Energy & Environment Middle East

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Apr 6, 2020

Bel in Euronews: Coronavirus is a real test for Europe. Don’t bury the EU yet.

"Let's see the EU for what it is. A unique political project, successful in bringing peace and prosperity to Europe, incomplete, notably in terms of fiscal solidarity or geopolitical clout, fragile and to be defended, but also able to adapt and muddle through," writes Visiting Fellow Olivier-Rémy Bel for Euronews opinions.

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Apr 6, 2020

Yade in Le Monde: « Seule l’Afrique, avec sa jeunesse en perpétuel mouvement, apparaît en capacité de penser la destinée collective de l’humanité »

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In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, African countries have an opening to revive multilateralism. Read Senior Fellow Rama Yade's latest in Le Monde (en français) for her five-point program on how Africa can embrace this opportunity.

Africa Coronavirus

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Apr 6, 2020

Herbst joins Ambassadors Pifer and Taylor in NPR op-ed with ideas on ending war in Ukraine

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Eurasia Center Director John Herbst joined Ambassadors Steven Pifer and William Taylor, all former US ambassadors to Ukraine, to write an op-ed, published by NPR, outlining how the coronavirus crisis may be an opportunity to end the war in Ukraine

Conflict Coronavirus

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Apr 6, 2020

Younus in his podcast “Pakistonomy,” episode 12: Real Estate in Pakistan

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Coronavirus Economy & Business