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Jun 2, 2017

Woods Joins Council on Foreign Relations Podcast to Discuss Cyber Policy

By Beau Woods

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Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

UkraineAlert

May 31, 2017

NATO’s Double Standards: Why Montenegro but Not Ukraine?

By Taras Kuzio

On June 5, Montenegro will become the twenty-ninth member of NATO. This comes at a time when accession talks with the EU are also occurring; the EU has offered membership to Montenegro and other countries in the western Balkans. To any careful observer, it is obvious that the standards for Montenegro’s inclusion in the alliance […]

NATO
Russia

New Atlanticist

May 31, 2017

America First Also Means Europe First

By Louis Golino

The NATO summit in Brussels on May 25 was an important opportunity for US President Donald J. Trump to turn his recent statement about the Alliance no longer being obsolete in his opinion into real progress in transatlantic relations. However, Trump’s boorish behavior at the summit, his failure to endorse the Alliance’s mutual defense clause, […]

European Union
International Organizations

Report

May 30, 2017

Meeting the Russian hybrid challenge

By Franklin D. Kramer and Lauren M. Speranza

Since its takeover of Crimea in 2014, Russia has become increasingly emboldened, undertaking actions that, rather than propping up a failing regime, strike directly against the functioning of Western democracy. Employing a combination of “hybrid” actions–political, diplomatic, informational, cyber-, economic, covert and low-level force–the Kremlin has targeted countries not only on the fringes of its […]

Europe & Eurasia
NATO

In the News

May 29, 2017

Grundman Joins Defense & Aerospace Report to Discuss US-NATO Relations After Brussels Trip

By Steven Grundman

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NATO
Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

May 27, 2017

Exports and end-use

By James Hasik

We can ask the US Army to arm, advise, and assist its allies in the Iraqi Army, or we can ask the Army to consolidate its spreadsheets. For Iraqis, this fight is existential, and I’d rather they simply crushed ISIS. Wars may be audits themselves, but wars this hot may be no time for audits.

Arms Control
Defense Industry

Event Recap

May 25, 2017

Why Africa matters to US national security

By Africa Center

On May 25, 2017, on the occasion of the fifty-fourth celebration of Africa Day, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center launched its newest report, “Why Africa Matters to US National Security.” The author, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council Grant Harris, argues that a re-assessment […]

Africa
English

New Atlanticist

May 25, 2017

Putin, Not Trump, Has Led NATO Members to Increase Defense Spending

By Kelly Russo

While US President Donald J. Trump admonished the United States’ NATO allies at a meeting in Brussels on May 25 for not spending enough on collective defense, it is the threat posed by Russia that has been a bigger factor in galvanizing the allies’ defense commitments, according to a former deputy secretary general of NATO. […]

NATO
Security & Defense

In the News

May 25, 2017

Benitez Quoted by Foreign Policy on How Trump’s Behavior at NATO Summit Was a Victory for Putin

By Jorge Benitez

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NATO
Security & Defense

In the News

May 25, 2017

Benitez Quoted by Stars and Stripes on Trump’s Controversial Comments at NATO Summit

By Jorge Benitez

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NATO
Security & Defense

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