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In the News

Jan 7, 2019

Sultoon in The Hill: Don’t prematurely ease the pressure on North Korea

By Samantha Sultoon

Read the full article here.

Korea

In the News

Jan 3, 2019

Manning Quoted in ThinkProgress on North Korea Warning Trump About a New Path Forward

By Robert Manning

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Korea

In the News

Jan 1, 2019

Remes in McKinsey Global Institute: Smarter cities are resilient cities

By Atlantic Council

Economy & Business Entrepreneurship

In the News

Dec 21, 2018

Vershbow quoted in Axios on Russia-Ukraine tensions

By Alexander Vershbow

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Russia Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Dec 21, 2018

Mattis out. What now?

By Todd Rosenblum

Mattis deserves profound praise and appreciation for leaving when he could no longer support a commander in chief bent on uprooting vital national interests. 

Defense Policy National Security

Report

Dec 20, 2018

Prospects for US-South Korean-Japanese trilateral security cooperation

By Chung Min Lee

Although assessing the intensity and depth of trilateral security cooperation or a lack thereof is hardly a new issue, the stakes are arguably the highest since the outbreak of the North Korean nuclear crisis in the early 1990s.

Defense Policy Japan

New Atlanticist

Dec 20, 2018

Top 10 risks of 2019

By Robert A. Manning and Mathew J. Burrows

Unfortunately, 2018 will not go down as a very memorable year in turning the page on the big issues of our time.  Trump is right to claim credit for starting a dialogue with North Korean leader Kim Jung-un, but even that faces tests—as we outline—in the coming year. 

Conflict European Union

IranSource

Dec 20, 2018

Here’s How Protests and Strikes Are Leading Change in Iran

By Arash Azizi

What do farmers in Esfahan, unemployed youth in Rafsanjan, teachers and students in Hamadan, and fraud victims in Kerman all have in common? On the face of it, not much other than being Iranian. But there is another commonality: They all staged protests on the same day, December 12.   Reporting on Iran tends to focus on the […]

Iran

In the News

Dec 19, 2018

Vershbow for Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review: European Defense: Time for a Higher Level of Ambition

By Alexander Vershbow

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European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Dec 17, 2018

The United States and its allies need to understand China’s North Korea policy

By Taisuke Mibae

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on October 26 marked the first time in seven years that a serving Japanese prime minister has traveled to China for official bilateral meetings with his counterparts. Lost in the headlines of this historic summit was the fact that the two leaders […]

China Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

IranSource

Dec 17, 2018

Thanks to US Sanctions, Iranians Are Turning to Bitcoin Mining

By Maziar Motamedi

Ali Hosseini is a 26-year-old with a normal nine-to-five job in Tehran. He has a bachelor’s degree in information technology and mostly works in social media and public relations. Two months ago, he bought a Bitcoin mining device with his cousin and has been mining since. Hosseini had no prior knowledge of blockchains and distributed […]

Iran

IranSource

Dec 14, 2018

Q&A: Nader Uskowi on the IRGC’s ‘Temperature Rising’

By Holly Dagres

Nonresident senior fellow Nader Uskowi talks about his new book, Temperature Rising: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East. Uskowi discusses with IranSource the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) inside Iran and the Middle East, what the West is getting wrong about the elite force, and the challenges the IRGC is […]

Iran

Issue Brief

Dec 13, 2018

Permanent deterrence: Enhancements to the US military presence in north central Europe

By General Philip Breedlove, Ambassador Alexander Vershbow

The United States and NATO have taken significant steps since 2014 to enhance their force posture and respond to provocative Russian behavior. But more needs to be done.

Central Europe Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Dec 12, 2018

Metzl Joins CNN to Discuss US-China Trade

By Jamie Metzl

Watch the full discussion here

China Economy & Business

In the News

Dec 10, 2018

Bell and Manning in The National Interest: Is US Confrontation with China Threatening US Nuclear Competitiveness?

Read the full article here

China Nuclear Nonproliferation

In the News

Dec 10, 2018

Rosenblum in The Hill: Limited Senate Access to CIA Intelligence is Not Conspiracy

By Todd Rosenblum

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Intelligence Security & Defense

In the News

Dec 6, 2018

Metzl joins CNN to discuss Huawei CFO arrest and the US-China Trade war

By Jamie Metzl

Watch the full discussion here.

China

IranSource

Dec 3, 2018

Iran’s Ballistic Missile Inventory

By Clara Belk

The Trump administration had major qualms with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) prompting the US withdrawal in May. These included the sunset provisions, which provide expiration dates for certain restrictions, and its narrow targeting of Iran’s nuclear program without addressing the continued enhancement of its ballistic missile arsenal, which enables the regime’s “malign […]

Iran
TrumpXiDinnerFeature

New Atlanticist

Dec 2, 2018

Trump, Xi reach trade war truce… for now

By Ashish Kumar Sen

“China is extremely focused on building its economy of the future and will certainly try to take advantage of President Trump’s obsession with rebuilding the industries of the past,” said Atlantic Council nonresident senior fellow Jamie Metzl.

China Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2018

Remembering George H.W. Bush

By David A. Wemer

Although we are only a quarter century removed from his time in office, I believe history’s verdict to be clear: he was one of the finest international statesmen to ever to serve our country as Commander in Chief," said Madeleine Albright, advisor to the Atlantic Council's International Advisory Board and former US secretary of state.

Politics & Diplomacy
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