Security & Defense

Slavin Joins BBC to Discuss John Bolton as New National Security Adviser

By Barbara Slavin

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Farkas Quoted in Financial Times on Ouster of HR McMaster as National Security Adviser

By Evelyn Farkas

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Alfoneh Quoted in Reuters on Nomination of John Bolton as National Security Adviser

By Ali Alfoneh

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Kroenig joins PBS to discuss Trump’s new national security advisor

By Matthew Kroenig

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Pavel Quoted in CIRCA on Trump’s New National Security Adviser Amb. John Bolton

By Barry Pavel

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Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative Sixth Annual Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge Concludes in Washington, DC

The Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge is a one-of-a-kind competition designed to provide students across academic disciplines with a deeper understanding of the policy challenges associated with cyber crisis and conflict. Part interactive learning experience and part competitive scenario exercise, it challenges teams to respond to a realistic, evolving cyberattack and analyze the threat it poses to national, international, and private sector interests.

Kremlin aggression in Ukraine: the price tag

By Anders Åslund

“Since the annexation, Russia has carried out extensive confiscation of public and private property, which it has referred to as ‘nationalization’ under Russian Federation legislation,” writes Dr. Anders Åslund, in Kremlin Aggression in Ukraine: The Price Tag, a new report by the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. If Kyiv loses the occupied Crimea and Donbas forever, […]

Khourt in The Cairo Review of Global Affairs: The Meaning of Eastern Ghouta and Assad’s “Victory”

By Nabeel Khoury

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Toward effective air defense in northern Europe

By Gen. Philip M. Breedlove

Northern Europe, particularly the Baltic Sea region, is at the forefront of a new competition between NATO and a revanchist Russia capable and willing to use military force to alter the European security order. Since 2014, both the United States and NATO have responded to the changing security environment in northern Europe with a bolstered […]