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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 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

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

By Evelyn Farkas

Read the full article here.

NATO Russia

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

Read the full article here.

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

Read the full article here.

Defense Industry Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Mar 11, 2016

Manning Quoted by The National Interest on Beijing Threatening Taiwan

By Robert A. Manning

Read the full article here.

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

In the News

Mar 10, 2016

Burrows in The National Interest: Germany Is a Great Power—It Should Act Like One

By Mathew J. Burrows

Read the full article here.

Germany

In the News

Mar 10, 2016

Barno Quoted by Time on Intersections Between Military Careers and Family Life in the United States

By David Barno

Read the full article here.

Defense Industry Security & Defense

In the News

Mar 10, 2016

Ward in War on the Rocks: Sad Marco Rubio, Bernie Sanders’ Realism, and Aaron Carter

By Alex Ward

Read the full article here.

New Atlanticist

Mar 9, 2016

Wanted: A Changed US Mindset

By Ali Wyne

The Financial Times’ chief foreign affairs columnist, Gideon Rachman, is one of the most trenchant observers of world order and America’s evolving role within it. Writing in the National Interest, he asks a big-picture question that the US presidential candidates should consider and debate this fall: “how long can the United States, a country that […]

National Security Security & Defense

In the News

Mar 9, 2016

Farkas and Hasik Quoted by Bloomberg on US Military Reinforcements to NATO Against Russia

By Evelyn Farkas and Jim Hasik

Read the full article here.

NATO Russia

In the News

Mar 9, 2016

Manning Quoted by Marketplace on Falling Oil Prices and Saudi Arabia’s Economy

By Robert A. Manning

Watch the full interview here.

Energy & Environment Saudi Arabia

In the News

Mar 9, 2016

Ward Quoted by IHS Jane’s on Economic and Political Relationships between the Department of Defense and Silicon Valley

By Alex Ward

Read the full article here.

Defense Industry Security & Defense

In the News

Mar 8, 2016

Metzl Joins Bloomberg Business to Discuss China’s Growth and International Investment

By Jamie Metzl

China

In the News

Mar 8, 2016

Manning Joins Al Jazeera to Discuss Whether or Not Sanctions Against North Korea Worked

By Robert A. Manning

Watch the full interview here.

Korea

In the News

Mar 8, 2016

Barno and Bensahel in War on the Rocks: Three Minutes to Midnight: Closer to Nuclear Conflict than We Think

By David Barno & Nora Bensahel

Read the full article here.

Defense Industry Korea

In the News

Mar 7, 2016

Metzl Joins CNN to Discuss North Korea’s Threats of Preemptive Nuclear Strike

By Jamie Metzl

Watch the full interview here.

Korea Nuclear Nonproliferation

In the News

Mar 7, 2016

Manning in Financial Times: China and the United States Need to Cause North Korea Real Pain

By Robert A. Manning

Read the full article here.

China Korea
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