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Mar 24, 2016

Healey Quoted in Vocativ on Cyber Warfare Between Iran and the United States

By Jason Healey

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Cybersecurity
Iran

In the News

Mar 24, 2016

Hellyer in The National: Why ISIS Chose to Strike at the Heart of Europe

By H. A. Hellyer

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NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Mar 23, 2016

On Brussels Bombings: ‘The Moment Has Come When We Need to Act,’ says Kosovo’s President Atifete Jahjaga

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Kosovo’s President, Atifete Jahjaga, has called on governments in countries facing the threat of Islamic terrorism to set aside political differences and ramp up intelligence sharing and cooperation with their neighbors. “The moment has come when we need to act,” Jahjaga said in an interview on March 23. Jahjaga spoke on a visit to the […]

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Mar 23, 2016

Why Donald Trump is Wrong about NATO

By Robbie Gramer

In an interview with the Washington Post a day before the terrorist attacks in Brussels, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump unveiled an “unabashedly noninterventionist approach” to America’s role in the world. High on his list of targets was NATO. Trump alleged that the United States’ “allies do nothing,” meaning the United States “can’t afford” to […]

NATO
Security & Defense

In the News

Mar 23, 2016

Alliance at Risk Report Highlighted in Defense One

By Atlantic Council

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Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Mar 23, 2016

Ospreys across the no-man’s sea

By James Hasik

A new “island strategy” for reaction forces could make carrier and amphibious groups less essential. On Monday, the American Hellenic Institute hosted a luncheon with Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on the occasion of the rollout of a paper by Dan Gouré’s of the Lexington Institute on “Souda Bay: NATO’s Military Gem in the Eastern Mediterranean.” I […]

China
Defense Technologies
B61 nuclear bomb exhibit at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Feb. 24, 2012

NATOSource

Mar 23, 2016

Adjusting NATO’s Nuclear Policies: A Five Step Program

By Franklin C. Miller

As the Wales Summit recognized, NATO faces a potential threat of attack by conventional force elements, both in traditional formations and in the form of “little green men.”

NATO
Nuclear Nonproliferation

In the News

Mar 23, 2016

Gramer Quoted by Milwaukee Public Radio on the Brussels Terrorist Attacks and the Future of NATO

By Robbie Gramer

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NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Mar 23, 2016

ISIS Strikes Brussels: Is This The ‘New Normal’?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The terrorist attacks in Brussels represent a collective failure of Western intelligence, underscore the challenges radicalized young Muslims pose to Europe and the United States, but most of all are emblematic of what the Atlantic Council’s Barry Pavel describes as a “new normal.” The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the […]

Cybersecurity
European Union

Issue Brief

Mar 22, 2016

What’s left of Europe if the far right has its way?

By Alina Polyakova and Anton Shekhovtsov

Far-right parties are on the rise in Europe, particularly in the post-soviet space. The 2008 financial crisis provided these parties with an electoral boost, and the refugee crisis threatening the continent has inflamed nationalist and xenophobic populism. In this new issue brief, “What’s Left of Europe if the Far Right Has Its Way?”, Dr. Alina […]

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