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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

Read the full article here (Page 5)

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

Read the full article here

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

Art of Future Warfare

Dec 1, 2018

Diverse perspectives are Key to innovative thinking

By John Watts

The outcomes of this design workshop were used to help military designers think about the different ways technology will change our society, and how that will impact the way that capabilities will be employed and how we humans will expect to interact with both them and with each other.

Security & Defense Technology & Innovation

IranSource

Nov 30, 2018

After Iraq, Iran Chemical Weapons Allegation Met With Skepticism

By Borzou Daragahi

If there were any doubts that the United States under President Donald Trump was trying to pick a fight with Iran over anything—that Washington had no real agenda with its belligerent anti-Iran rhetoric and moves other than just flicking mud at the country and its rulers in hopes that something would stick—they were dispelled on […]

Iran

Report

Nov 29, 2018

NATO priorities after the Brussels summit

By Franklin D. Kramer, Hans Binnendijk, Lauren M. Speranza

In Brussels, allies committed not only to increased spending to meet the NATO 2-percent pledge, but to important improvements in readiness and reinforcement for air, land, and naval forces. They also agreed to adopt an increased focus on the challenges of cyber and hybrid conflict. The commitments are comprehensive, but the results of these decisions will depend on effective implementation. This paper sets forth a policy and programmatic framework for that implementation, proposing four sets of actions that NATO should undertake.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

IranSource

Nov 29, 2018

Impeaching the Foreign Minister Won’t Solve Iran’s Woes

By Holly Dagres

Iran’s US-educated Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has always had enemies within the Iranian establishment. When Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was imprisoned during the 2009 post-election protests known as the Green Movement, his interrogators demanded not only that he admit to being a CIA agent but that Zarif—who had been sidelined by then hardline President […]

Iran

New Atlanticist

Nov 29, 2018

Trump-Xi meeting at the G20: An opportunity to calm a trade war

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The worst case is if Trump insists on more tariffs. The US trade deficit is higher than ever and the reason is the dollar is stronger than it has been in a long time. That is one of the fundamentals determining trade deficits. Trump thinks it is all bad trade deals.

China G20

In the News

Nov 27, 2018

Manning Quoted in VOA on US Granting Sanctions Exemption Request by South Korea

By Robert A. Manning

Read the full article here.

In the News

Nov 27, 2018

Metzl Joins Bloomberg Radio to Discuss G20

By Jamie Metzl

Listen to the full discussion here.

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