Eastern Europe

Global China Newsletter: A flurry of leader-level diplomacy

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Dexter Tiff Roberts</span>

The fourth 2024 edition of the Global China Newsletter

Dispatch from Estonia and Romania: How NATO burden sharing works on the ground

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Léonie Allard</span>, <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Andrew Bernard</span>, <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Rachel Rizzo</span>, <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Lisa Homel</span>

European-led missions on NATO’s eastern flank represent tangible and significant contributions to the Alliance’s security.

NATO must ‘win up front but be ready to win long’ in modern warfare, says General Christopher Cavoli

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Katherine Golden</span>

At an Atlantic Council Front Page event, Cavoli spoke about the war in Ukraine, NATO's modernization efforts, the China challenge, and more.

Georgia’s government uses Kremlin playbook to consolidate grip on power

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland</span>

The Georgian government's efforts to adopt a Kremlin-style law imposing restrictions on civil society has sparked huge protests and led to questions over the country's future geopolitical direction, writes Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland.

Russia’s Georgia strategy offers hints of Kremlin vision for Ukraine

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Nicholas Chkhaidze</span>

Russia's attempts to force Georgia back into the Kremlin orbit via political control offer a hint of Moscow's vision for a future settlement with a defeated Ukraine, writes Nicholas Chkhaidze.

Full transcript: The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize skillful leaders navigating a world of crises

The Atlantic Council honored government, military, and artistic leaders who are bolstering security and advocating for the most vulnerable globally.

Dispatch from Tbilisi: Amid Georgia’s battle for democracy, Russian influence is already here

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Eto Buziashvili</span>

The West has criticized Georgia's “foreign agent” law. Now it must take action to help defend democracy and the rule of law in Georgia.

G7 pledges to end coal—but only inclusive action will make a real climate impact

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Elena Benaim</span>

During the G7 energy ministerial in Turin, Italy, climate, energy, and environment ministers made a historic pledge to phase out coal power plants by 2035 among other agreements. But members ultimately need to turn pledges into action to blunt the impacts of climate change.

Georgia launches new push to adopt Russian-style foreign agent law

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert">Mercedes Sapuppo</span>

Georgia’s ruling party has revived plans to pass legislation tightening restrictions on civil society, despite the fact that the same draft law sparked mass protests just one year ago, writes Mercedes Sapuppo.