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Jun 20, 2018

Francis in The American Interest: Three Glimpses of the Future

By Diane Francis

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China
Cybersecurity

In the News

Jun 19, 2018

Vershbow in RealClearWorld: NATO Can Help Itself by Pulling Ukraine Closer Now

By Alexander Vershbow

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NATO
Security & Defense
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and President Donald Trump, May 17, 2018 (photo: NATO)

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2018

Winning on NATO: Trump Won’t Take Yes for an Answer

By Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal

European governments are finally getting serious about their militaries….

Germany
NATO
Major General Ci Guowei, Deputy Chief of the Office for International Military Cooperation led the Chinese delegation, June 11, 2018 (photo: NATO)

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2018

NATO and China Resume Military Staff to Staff Talks

By NATO

After a three year pause NATO and China have reconvened military to military staff talks.

China
NATO

In the News

Jun 17, 2018

Geers Quoted in The Hill on the Russian Threat to Undersea Cables

By Kenneth Geers

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Cybersecurity
Russia

New Atlanticist

Jun 17, 2018

Avoiding a NATO Train Wreck

By Frederick Kempe

This much is predictable. The world’s most successful and enduring alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is facing a potential transatlantic train wreck of American making when it meets in Brussels July 11-12, its first full-fledged summit of the Trump administration. Unless President Donald Trump shifts his thinking and actions before then, a toxic political […]

NATO
Security & Defense

In the News

Jun 15, 2018

Nordenman Quoted in Defense News on Macedonia and NATO

By Magnus Nordenman

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NATO
Security & Defense

Issue Brief

Jun 15, 2018

How to increase pressure if diplomacy with North Korea fails

By Daleep Singh and Peter E. Harrell

The uncertain results of President Trump’s June 12 summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un underscore the fact that the United States needs to keep developing tools to intensify the “maximum pressure” campaign that helped bring North Korea to the negotiating table. If North Korea proves unwilling to denuclearize and diplomacy breaks down once […]

China
Korea

Issue Brief

Jun 15, 2018

How to increase pressure if diplomacy with North Korea fails

By Daleep Singh and Peter E. Harrell

Peter E. Harrell, adjunct senior fellow at CNAS, explain that a truly “maximum pressure” campaign on North Korea would require the credible threat of targeted sanctions against China.

China
Korea

UkraineAlert

Jun 15, 2018

They speak Russian in Crimea, but that doesn’t make it part of Russia

By Peter Dickinson

Away from the frontlines of the conflict, the myth of Ukraine’s pro-Kremlin Russian-speakers never really needed debunking.

Conflict
Nationalism

Experts