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Jain quoted in the Hill on Biden’s Summit for Democracy

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Jain quoted in the Hill on Biden’s Summit for Democracy

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Dec 14, 2021

Jain quoted in the Hill on Biden’s Summit for Democracy

On December 8, Scowcroft Center director for democratic order Ash Jain was quoted in The Hill discussing criteria for country selection and participation in the Biden administration’s Summit for Democracy. He argued that the summit should include democracies with shared values and exclude backsliding democracies and authoritarian countries.

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Dec 14, 2021

What happens if Iran nuclear talks collapse?

By Masoud Mostajabi

On December 9, the Atlantic Council’s Future of Iran Initiative (FOII) held a virtual public event on whether a ‘Plan B’ exists in the event the nuclear talks fail.

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Dec 14, 2021

Amb. Omar Samad with Sputnik International, Former Afghan Ambassador Reveals What Has to be Done by Taliban to Gain International Recognition

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Dec 14, 2021

Dr Ali Riaz with Tritiyo Matra: Summit for democracy and Bangladesh

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Dec 14, 2021

Nia quoted in The New Arab on France’s arrest of Khaled al-Otaibi, an accomplice to the Khashoggi murder

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Dec 14, 2021

Schuman in The Atlantic: China’s big new idea

By Atlantic Council

On December 14, 2021, Michael Schuman published a story in The Atlantic, “China’s Big New Idea.” The piece explores “why Xi Jinping won’t stop talking about ‘common prosperity’ and how the phrase is becoming “a central node in the ever-expanding lexicon of language Xi is trying to use to increase Beijing’s influence in international affairs […]

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Dec 14, 2021

Will Afghanistan become another Somalia, Yugoslavia, or Medellin?

By Javid Ahmad

With no regional consensus on the way forward, the mixed dangers of Afghanistan morphing into another Somalia, or breaking into a loose confederacy of statelets like the former Yugoslavia, or becoming the next drug-replete Medellin is not a distant possibility.  

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Dec 13, 2021

Manning in The Hill: The truths and fallacies of Biden’s Summit for Democracy

By Atlantic Council

On December 13, Manning published his biweekly op-ed in The Hill, writing about the Summit for Democracy and the need for democracies to look internally at the factors causing rising authoritarianism. “Mobilizing allies and like-minded partners into coalitions to influence updated rules and norms on specific issues is the prerequisite of any viable U.S. strategy. […]

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Dec 13, 2021

Ashford in Inkstick: Debating the efficacy of US sanctions on Venezuela and Ethiopia

By Atlantic Council

On December 13, Emma Ashford was featured in Inkstick’s Adults in a Room column, writing on the Biden administration’s review of sanctions policy. “The Biden administration’s recently released sanctions review was emblematic of a core problem faced by advocates of sanctions reform. To the surprise of many, the review laid out extremely clearly some of […]

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Dec 13, 2021

Azodi quoted in The New Arab on the implication of the UAE’s top national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s recent visit to Tehran

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