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Jun 20, 2025

NATO Defense Spending Tracker

By Kristen Taylor

The Transatlantic Security Initiative’s NATO defense spending tracker delves into data and figures to analyze current defense spending trends.

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The Transatlantic Security Initiative, in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, shapes and influences the debate on the greatest security challenges facing the North Atlantic Alliance and its key partners.

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Aug 13, 2025

Taylor in Breaking Defense on how NATO allies should communicate defense spending hikes

By Kristen Taylor

On August 13, Transatlantic Security Initiative assistant director Kristen Taylor published an op-ed in Breaking Defense on how NATO allies should message defense spending increases to their publics.

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UkraineAlert

Aug 12, 2025

Sacrificing Ukraine will only increase the cost of stopping Putin’s Russia

By Pavlo Zhovnirenko

Pressuring Ukraine to accept a Kremlin-friendly settlement may succeed in pausing the current war, but it will not bring peace. On the contrary, it will set the stage for international instability on a far larger scale, writes Pavlo Zhovnirenko.

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TURKEYSource

Aug 11, 2025

How Turkey’s strategic ambiguity became an advantage in a multipolar world

By Ali Mammadov

In a unpredictable international system, Turkey’s ability to maintain ties across divides and rivalries has become its greatest asset.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 6, 2025

Dispatch from the Russian border: The Curonian Spit and the contest of the Baltic Sea

By Justina Budginaite-Froehly

A recent visit to Lithuania’s border with Kaliningrad reveals how the Baltic Sea has become one of Europe’s most contested maritime zones.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 6, 2025

Europe’s play to keep Trump happy cannot come at the expense of a longer-term strategy

By Torrey Taussig, Josh Lipsky

Even as the EU prioritizes defense and security interests with the US, it could come at the cost of economic and political cohesion in the bloc.

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In the News

Aug 6, 2025

Taussig in Foreign Policy on Trump’s Secondary Tariffs on India over Russian Oil Purchases

By Torrey Taussig

On August 6, Transatlantic Security Initiative director and senior fellow Torrey Taussig was quoted in Foreign Policy on Trump’s Secondary Tariffs on India over Russian Oil Purchases.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

In the News

Aug 6, 2025

Taussig quoted in Politico on US-Russian dynamics

By Torrey Taussig

On August 6, Transatlantic Security Initiative director and senior fellow Torrey Taussig was quoted in Politico on US-Russian ceasefire negotiations ahead of a meeting in Alaska between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin

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In the News

Aug 4, 2025

Michta published in RealClearDefense and featured in RealClearWorld on NATO and European security

On August 1, 2025, Andrew Michta, senior fellow in the GeoStrategy Initiative, was published in RealClearDefense on what Europe’s “rapidly shifting internal power dynamic” may mean for Germany’s role in the continent’s security architecture. The piece was featured in RealClearWorld.

Europe & Eurasia Germany

In the News

Aug 1, 2025

Michta in RealClearDefense on NATO and the future of European security

On August 1, Andrew Michta, nonresident senior fellow of the GeoStrategy Initiative, published an article in RealClearDefense titled “NATO and the Future of European Security: The German Question.” He argues that the Trump administration lacks a clear strategy in Europe and that the national interests of the United States are diverging from Europe’s interests.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

Inflection Points

Jul 28, 2025

Europe is ‘not ready’ for the Russian threat. At least it now has a plan.

By Frederick Kempe

The European Union is waking up to the threat posed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his battle-hardened army. Will it be enough?

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