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Aug 31, 2014

Three Critical Tests for NATO Leaders in Wales

By Nicholas Burns

Ukraine, the Middle East and Afghanistan test alliance’s future, writes Nicholas Burns When allied leaders meet in Wales at the end of this week, they will confront three critical tests for Nato’s future. Given all that has happened in the past half-year alone, these three challenges – Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, the disastrous unravelling […]

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Security & Defense

In the News

Aug 31, 2014

Kramer on What to Expect at the NATO Summit

By Franklin Kramer

Brent Scowcroft Center Distinguished Fellow Franklin Kramer joins Defense News to discuss what issues are likely to top the agenda at this year’s NATO Summit: 

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Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Aug 29, 2014

Ambassador Matthew Bryza on President Obama’s Estonia Visit

By New Atlanticist

Ahead of the NATO Summit next week, President Barack Obama will visit Estonia to reassure Baltic allies of US support amid Russian aggression in Ukraine. In Tallinn, President Obama is to meet the presidents of all three Baltic states: Estonia’s Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Latvia’s Andris Berzins, and Lithuania’s Dalia Grybauskaite.

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Northern Europe
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, March 5, 2014

NATOSource

Aug 29, 2014

NATO Urges Russia to Stop Its ‘Illegal Military Actions’ in Ukraine

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

We have just held an extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission, following the serious escalation of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. The meeting was held at Ukraine’s request.

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Russia

In the News

Aug 29, 2014

Healey on JPMorgan Cyberattack

By Jason Healey

Bloomberg Businessweek quotes Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey on the cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase & Co.:

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In the News

Aug 29, 2014

Brattberg and Volker: NATO Must Stand Up to Putin’s Threat to Invade Ukraine

By Erik Brattberg, Kurt Volker

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Kurt Volker and Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Fellow Erik Brattberg cowrite for the Washington Post on what NATO must do to prove to President Putin that Russia cannot invade Ukraine one week prior to a NATO summit:

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Russia

In the News

Aug 29, 2014

Bunde, Jankowski, and Michelot: Building NATO’s ‘Weimar Triangle’

By Tobias Bunde

NATO Emerging Leaders Working Group Members Tobias Bunde and Martin Michelot cowrite for Project Snydicate with Former Young Atlanticist NATO Working Group Member Dominik Jankowski on why the Weimar countries should match the US European Reassurance Initiative:

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Security & Defense

Issue Brief

Aug 29, 2014

NATO’s Cyber Capabilities: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

By Jason Healey and Klara Tothova Jordan

For over a decade, NATO has greatly improved its cyber capabilities. In a new issue brief, “NATO’s Cyber Capabilities: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” Jason Healey, director, and Klara Tothova Jordan, assistant director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative in the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council, argue that there is still much […]

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RAF Typhoon lifts off for Libya, May 25, 2011

NATOSource

Aug 28, 2014

US and Europe have a Feasible Military Option for Defending Ukraine

By Jorge Benitez, U.S. News & World Report

It is becoming harder and harder to ignore Russia’s growing military intervention in Ukraine.

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France
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and President Barack Obama

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Aug 28, 2014

Special Summit Series: Canada and NATO

By Julie Lindhout and Christian Paas-Lang

Ukraine is, of course, the most pressing issue facing NATO as a whole today.

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