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Sep 25, 2015

Aslund on Putin at the United Nations

By Anders Aslund

Radio Free Europe quotes Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Resident Senior Fellow Anders Aslund on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech to the UN General Assembly:

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Sep 16, 2015

New Vision Highlights Africa Center Event

By Atlantic Council

New Vision highlights a discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, moderated by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sam Kuetesa, on the United Nations and Uganda’s role in Africa: 

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Event Recap

Jul 8, 2015

The United Nations Moving Forward

The Atlantic Council, in partnership with the Government of Sweden for the Transatlantic Partnership for the Global Future project, hosted a private roundtable discussion on July 8, 2015, that considered how reform measures could help assuage the various challenges facing the United Nations (UN) today and in the future. The discussion centered around two topics, […]

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Jul 1, 2015

Pavel on ‘Westphalian-Plus’ World

By Barry Pavel

The Atlantic quotes Vice President and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel on how seventy years after its founding, the United Nations faces a world that looks nothing like it did in 1945:

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David Cameron, Angela Merkel, and Barack Obama, June 4, 2014

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May 22, 2015

The Leadership Gap in the West

By Julianne Smith, Berlin Policy Journal

The West seems to have forgotten, though, that it did not come to be the architect of the global system in the 1940s and 1950s by avoiding risk and relying on conventional approaches.

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Italian helicopter participating in NATO exercise, June 24, 2009

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Mar 13, 2015

Defending Italy from the Islamic State

By James Stavridis, Washington Post

Following the decapitation of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by radical Islamists professing an allegiance to the Islamic State, the Italian government has begun ramping up efforts to defend its territory from attack. How realistic is this threat? And what should Italy do?

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British Prime Minister David Cameron and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Oct. 29, 2011

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Jan 12, 2015

Canada Rebuffs Call To Join British-Led NATO-UN Force

By Murray Brewster, Canadian Press

Canada has quietly rebuffed a call from Britain to join a multi-national expeditionary force that Prime Minister David Cameron’s government was promoting in light of heightened tensions with Russia.

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Arctic Sea Ice

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Dec 15, 2014

Denmark Claims North Pole

By Jan M. Olsen, AP

Scientific data shows Greenland’s continental shelf is connected to a ridge beneath the Arctic Ocean, giving Danes a claim to the North Pole and any potential energy resources beneath it, Denmark’s foreign minister said.

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Dec 15, 2014

Column: US Falls Short on Human Rights

By Barbara Slavin

On the same day that the Senate Intelligence Committee released its blockbuster report on CIA interrogation practices after 9-11, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation declaring December 10 “Human Rights Day.”

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Prime Minister Stefan Löfven

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Oct 9, 2014

New Prime Minister: Sweden Expects Help from the EU and Nordic Neighbors if Attacked

By Swedish Government

The Government is entering office at a time of great uncertainty. Major conflicts are ongoing in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.

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