Insight & Impact

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Describe the kind of content you are highlighting here, why you are highlighting, and what it says about the work your program focuses on and how it makes an impact in the real world. Below, select three top pieces of commentary & analysis to feature from the past days or weeks. Update monthly via board process with Graeme Cranston-Cuebas and Vriddhi Sujan.

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In the News

Mar 1, 2015

Manning: Sino-US Ties Can Be Reinforced From Top Down

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning writes for the Global Times on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming state visit in September:

China

In the News

Feb 26, 2015

Jones on Doing Business in a Dicey Geopolitical Environment

By James L. Jones, Jr.

BRINK News interviews Brent Scowcroft Center Chairman General James L. Jones, Jr. on investing in foreign countries and how businesses can navigate today’s geopolitical environment:

In the News

Feb 26, 2015

Business Insider Cites the Atlantic Council

By Ian Brzezinski and Nicholas Varangis

Business Insider cites an Atlantic Council chart demonstrating the NATO-Russia exercise gap from a NATOSource article by the Scowcroft Center’s Ian Brzezinski and Nicholas Varangis:

NATO Russia

In the News

Feb 26, 2015

Aronsson on NATO’s Spending Inefficiencies

By Lisa Aronsson

Business Insider quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Visiting Fellow Lisa Aronsson on inefficiencies in NATO spending and what that means for the two percent spending target:

NATO Security & Defense

In the News

Feb 26, 2015

Aronsson on NATO’s Defense Spending

By Lisa Aronsson

International Business Times quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Visiting Fellow Lisa Aronsson on NATO’s defense spending and what it means for an increasingly hostile Europe:

NATO Security & Defense

In the News

Feb 25, 2015

Aronsson: Is NATO’s Two Percent Spending Call Realistic?

By Lisa Aronsson

Brent Scowcroft Center Visiting Fellow Lisa Aronsson writes for Carnegie Europe’s blog on why NATO’s two percent spending target is not realistic:

NATO Security & Defense

In the News

Feb 25, 2015

Brzezinski on the “Exercise Gap” Between Russia and NATO

By Ian Brzezinski

BBC News quotes Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski on the “exercise gap” between Russia and NATO from an Atlantic Council report:

NATO Russia

In the News

Feb 24, 2015

Manning: China’s Affair with the ‘Other Korea’

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning writes for the National Interest on China’s relationship with North Korea and South Korea:

China Korea

In the News

Feb 23, 2015

Breitenbauch: A l’Europe de réaffirmer ses valeurs démocratiques contre le terrorisme

By Henrik Breitenbauch

Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Henrik Breitenbauch writes for French-language newspaper Le Monde on the recent terrorist attacks in Europe:

Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Feb 23, 2015

Pavel on the Deadly Terrorist Attacks in Europe

By Barry Pavel

International Business Times quotes VP and Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel on why terrorist attacks in Europe have been deadlier than those in the United States: