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In the News

Mar 21, 2016

Pavel Joins NBC Nightly News to Discuss US Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s Position on NATO and United States Foreign Policy

By Barry Pavel

Elections NATO

Issue Brief

Mar 21, 2016

Train, hone, deter

By Matt Brand

NATO exercises play a vital role in ensuring that Alliance forces can respond to any contingency quickly and effectively. Not since the early 1990s has NATO’s exercise program drawn as much attention from NATO’s national leaders as it does now, due in large part to Russia’s increasingly aggressive misbehavior. The NATO exercise program provides the vital functions of keeping the member states’ forces interoperable by integrating new technologies into the force, practicing new doctrine, and validating units for their rotation into contingency roles, like the NATO Response Force.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

In the News

Mar 19, 2016

Farkas Quoted by The Sydney Morning Herald on Russia’s Military Operation in Syria

By Evelyn Farkas

Read the full article here.

Russia

In the News

Mar 18, 2016

Du Mont Featured in Speaker Series at World Policy Institute

By Malia K. Du Mont

Defense Industry Security & Defense

In the News

Mar 17, 2016

Ward in War on the Rocks: Free Trade, Trump’s Brain, and Loose-Lipped Ben Carson

By Alex Ward

Read the full article here.

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Mar 17, 2016

Sloan in The National Interest: Rebuilding Washington’s Transatlantic Alliance

Read the full article here.

In the News

Mar 17, 2016

Joyner in War on the Rocks: Professional Military Education and the Rigor Problem

By James Joyner

Read the full article here.

In the News

Mar 16, 2016

Atlantic Council Report Featured in Democracy Digest

By Atlantic Council

Read the full article here.

In the News

Mar 16, 2016

Burrows Joins hromadske.tv to Discuss the Growing Middle Class in Asia

By Mathew J. Burrows

Watch the full interview here.

China

New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2016

Is Dissent Brewing in ISIS’ Ranks Over Plans to Strike the United States, Europe?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Top commanders ‘disavow’ shift of strategy away from caliphate-building, says journalist A shift from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham’s goals of building a caliphate to attacking Europe and the United States is reportedly causing a rift in the terrorist group’s upper echelons. A lieutenant to ISIS’ self-proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, told Martin […]

Iraq Syria

Event Recap

Mar 15, 2016

Autocracies Failed and Unfailed: Limited Strategies for State Building

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 from 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. the Strategy Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security released its third Atlantic Council Strategy Paper, “Autocracies Failed and Unfailed: Limited Strategies for State Building.”

Report

Mar 15, 2016

Autocracies failed and unfailed: limited strategies for state building

By Stephen D. Krasner

The fundamental challenge for modern wealthy democracies committed to promoting better governance is that their opportunities are hostage to the preferences of national elites in closed-access polities, where political power is exercised in arbitrary ways, and where most of the population lacks access to services, including the rule of law.

Afghanistan Africa

Testimony

Mar 15, 2016

Six Ways the US Can Defeat Putin and Bolster Ukraine

By Ian Brzezinski

The transatlantic community has a significant stake in assuring Ukraine’s trajectory as a modern, democratic, and prosperous European state. A strategy to assist Ukraine in accomplishing that objective must impose greater economic and geopolitical costs on Russia for its aggression, enhance Ukraine’s capacity for self-defense, assist Kyiv’s efforts to reform its political and economic institutions, […]

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Mar 15, 2016

Farkas in Defense One: Putin Got Exactly What He Wanted in Syria

By Evelyn Farkas

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NATO Russia

In the News

Mar 15, 2016

Farkas Joins BBC World Service to Discuss Russia’s Withdrawal from Syria

By Evelyn Farkas

Listen to the full interview here.

Russia Syria

In the News

Mar 15, 2016

Herbst and Brzezinski Testify Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Ukrainian Reforms After Russia’s Invasion

By John Herbst and Ian Brzezinksi

Read testimony from The Hon. John E. Herbst here.

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Mar 14, 2016

Manning in Global Times: Voters’ Paranoia Creates Trump Frenzy

By Robert A. Manning

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China United States and Canada

In the News

Mar 11, 2016

Barno Quoted in Breaking Defense on General Scaparrotti’s Transfer from South Korea to European Command

By David Barno

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Defense Industry Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Mar 11, 2016

Manning Quoted by The National Interest on Beijing Threatening Taiwan

By Robert A. Manning

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China

In the News

Mar 11, 2016

Brzezinski Interviewed by New Eastern Europe on NATO, Poland, and Greece

By Ian Brzensinski

Read the full interview here.

Greece NATO
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