D’Anieri, Fried, and Herbst quoted in the Toronto Star: What does Prigozhin’s death mean for Russia — and Ukraine?

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Turkey has been at a standstill, which, combined with domestic political considerations, led to a reevaluation of its strategy.
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D’Anieri, Fried, and Herbst quoted in the Toronto Star: What does Prigozhin’s death mean for Russia — and Ukraine?

UkraineAlert Nov 7, 2024

The West must respond to Russia’s rapidly escalating hybrid warfare

By Doug Livermore

Russia’s hybrid war against the West is escalating rapidly and requires a far firmer collective response, writes Doug Livermore.
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D’Anieri, Fried, and Herbst quoted in the Toronto Star: What does Prigozhin’s death mean for Russia — and Ukraine?

New Atlanticist Nov 1, 2024

How to reform UNRWA to improve Palestinian lives and Israeli security

By Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky and Jonathan Panikoff

A three-step plan offers a pathway to reforming the United Nations agency to truly service Palestinians and to no longer pose a threat to Israel and an obstacle to Palestinian statehood negotiations.
Conflict Israel

War in Ukraine

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In the News

Aug 24, 2023

D’Anieri, Fried, and Herbst quoted in the Toronto Star: What does Prigozhin’s death mean for Russia — and Ukraine?

By Atlantic Council

Conflict Russia

In the News

Aug 24, 2023

Davidzon in Tablet: The war comes to Odessa

By Atlantic Council

Conflict Ukraine
A masked Wagner fighter visits a makeshift memorial to Yevgeny Prigozhin in Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 24, 2023. (Source: Reuters/Anastasia Barashkova)

New Atlanticist

Aug 24, 2023

Russian War Report: Russian media pins Prigozhin crash on all except Putin

By Digital Forensic Research Lab

On Wednesday, August 23, Wagner Group PMC founder Yevgeny Prighozhin and many of his top brass were reported to be killed in a plane crash. Rumors swirled shortly thereafter as to the nature of the crash.

Conflict Media

Podcast

Aug 24, 2023

Semtex teddy bear: The mercenary build-up in Libya

By Alia Brahimi

Host and Nonresident Senior Fellow Alia Brahimi speaks with Libya expert Emadeddin Badi about tthe surge of African, Syrian and Russian mercenaries in Libya since 2019.

Conflict Crisis Management

UkraineAlert

Aug 23, 2023

Putin’s Russia is trapped in genocidal denial over Ukrainian independence

By Mercedes Sapuppo

Russia’s longstanding denial of Ukrainian national identity and refusal to accept the reality of Ukrainian independence are now fueling an invasion that many view as genocidal in nature, writes Mercedes Sapuppo.

Conflict Disinformation

UkraineAlert

Aug 23, 2023

Ukraine’s fight against Russian imperialism is Europe’s longest independence struggle

By Peter Dickinson

The war unleashed by Vladimir Putin eighteen months ago is best understood as the latest chapter in a dark saga of Russian imperial aggression against Ukraine that stretches back centuries, writes Peter Dickinson.

Conflict Democratic Transitions

Fast Thinking

Aug 23, 2023

What Prigozhin’s plane crash tells us about Putin’s Russia

By Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council experts share their insights on the apparent death of Wagner Group founder Yevgeniy Prigozhin.

Conflict Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

Aug 23, 2023

Experts react: What the Prigozhin plane crash reveals about Putin, the Wagner Group’s future, and the war in Ukraine

By Atlantic Council experts

Experts weigh in on what the mercenary leader's apparent death will mean for the Russian state and Wagner's operations abroad.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 23, 2023

Dispatches from Taiwan: Expert perspectives from an Atlantic Council visit to Taipei

By Atlantic Council experts

A timely delegation delivers on-the-ground insights and analysis on the island democracy's challenges and role in the Indo-Pacific.

China Conflict

In the News

Aug 22, 2023

Brzezinski in The Washington Post on a potential NATO exercise at the Suwalki Gap

By Ian Brzezinski

On August 22, Transatlantic Security Initiative senior fellow Ian Brzezinski and his recent article for the New Atlanticist regarding a potential NATO exercise at the Suwalki Gap were mentioned in The New York Times.

Conflict Europe & Eurasia
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Priya Pillai

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