It’s time to stop appeasing Putin—here’s how to deter the emboldened Russian president

MENASource
Nov 8, 2024

Turkey is searching for a way out of Syria’s impasse

By
Ömer Özkizilcik

Turkey has been at a standstill, which, combined with domestic political considerations, led to a reevaluation of its strategy.

Conflict
Europe & Eurasia

It’s time to stop appeasing Putin—here’s how to deter the emboldened Russian president

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.

Conflict
Cybersecurity

It’s time to stop appeasing Putin—here’s how to deter the emboldened Russian president

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

Experts from across the Atlantic Council are assessing the consequences of Russia’s February 2022 invasion, including what it means for Ukraine’s sovereignty, Europe’s security, and the United States’ leadership.


Israel-Hamas war

Experts from across the Atlantic Council are providing insight and analysis at speed and in depth on the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, Israel’s response, and how the emerging conflict is upending the Middle East and the world.

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Inflection Points

Dec 1, 2018

It’s time to stop appeasing Putin—here’s how to deter the emboldened Russian president

By Frederick Kempe

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko this week warned, "The only language [Putin] understands is the solidarity of the Western world. We can't accept Russia's aggressive policies.

Conflict
NATO

In the News

Dec 1, 2018

Biberman in Journal of Strategic Studies: Self-Defense Militias, Death Squads, and State Outsourcing of Violence in India and Turkey

By Atlantic Council

Conflict
India

New Atlanticist

Nov 26, 2018

Beware the lure of sanctions for Russia’s latest aggression

By Brian O'Toole

While sanctions may be useful to threaten Russia to rectify this situation, any imposition of them needs to be more strategically deployed—ideally with the EU—and lifted only for more strategic gains, vice resolution of this specific incident.

Conflict
Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

New Atlanticist

Nov 25, 2018

Russia-Ukraine conflict heats up the Sea of Azov: Echoes of Russia’s war with georgia?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

“For months, Russian forces have been working to make the Azov Sea an internal Russian body of water in order to both cut off Ukraine’s eastern ports and cement Moscow’s hold on Crimea,” said Damon Wilson, executive vice president of the Atlantic Council.

Conflict
Maritime Security

Inflection Points

Nov 25, 2018

Saudi war games

By Frederick Kempe

Without its values as a guide, the United States loses its unique attraction as a global power. Yet values alone would have failed to win the Cold War against the Soviet Union – and will likely fail now in the Middle East as well.  

Conflict
National Security

Inflection Points

Nov 17, 2018

Preventing World War III

By Frederick Kempe

Angell's "Great Illusion" turned out to be tragic delusion. By failing to anticipate the prospect of war between a rising Germany and a declining United Kingdom, the U.S. and others took too few steps to prevent it.

Conflict
International Organizations

Issue Brief

Nov 15, 2018

Ukrainian Election Task Force—exposing foreign interference in Ukraine’s election

By Ukrainian Election Task Force

Western democracies are under threat from outside meddling, and Ukraine is the testing ground for this interference. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s persistent efforts to influence the domestic politics of his neighbors and countries well beyond Russia’s borders have posed enormous challenges in Europe and across the Atlantic.

Conflict
Democratic Transitions

New Atlanticist

Nov 12, 2018

Violence erupts between Gaza and Israel

By David A. Wemer

“This latest escalation, however, may be more difficult to contain. Israel may feel the need to respond with much stronger force given the number of rockets that have already hit Israel, including a bus earlier today," said Rachel Brandenburg, director fo the Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council.

Conflict
Israel

New Atlanticist

Nov 12, 2018

Remembering the Moral Purpose of War

By Paul D. Miller

If the Great War teaches us anything, it is that wars must be fought for a morally-defensible purpose—or not fought at all—and that once a war is won, its moral purpose must continue to animate our postwar efforts to build peace.

Conflict
National Security

New Atlanticist

Nov 11, 2018

The World has come full circle—And taken a turn for the worse

By Nicholas Dungan

Yet the problems of today are also global, climate change first among them, together with the despoiling of the only habitat which humankind has and the destruction of the Earth's biodiversity by the selfish profligacy of modern man.

Conflict
European Union
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Experts

John Watts

Fellow

John T. Watts

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Conflict Crisis Management

Staff

William F. Wechsler

Senior Director, Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

National Security Middle East

Advisory Council member

Andrew Wilson

Member, Freedom and Prosperity Center Advisory Council

Freedom and Prosperity Center

Conflict Corruption

Staff

Samantha Wong

Assistant Director

Global China Hub

China Chinese

Staff

Olivia Yanchik

Assistant Director

Eurasia Center

Conflict Europe & Eurasia

Fellow

David H. Young

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Transatlantic Security Initiative

Afghanistan Conflict
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