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In the News

Feb 12, 2018

Braw in POLITICO: Europe Isn’t Ready to Face Modern Threats

By Elisabeth Braw

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Europe & Eurasia
NATO

In the News

Feb 12, 2018

Haid in Middle East Eye: Why Did Russia Abandon Afrin?

By Haid Haid

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Russia
Turkey

In the News

Feb 12, 2018

Fairbank Quoted in BuzzFeed on Vlad Lupan Being Removed From His Post

By Timothy Fairbank

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Russia

In the News

Feb 12, 2018

Bryza Quoted in Haber Turk Newspaper on U.S.-Turkey Relations

By Matthew Bryza

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Turkey

New Atlanticist

Feb 12, 2018

Talking Turkey

By Carmen Gentile

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s trip to the Middle East this week comes amid escalating tensions between NATO allies Turkey and the United States as their forces stare down one another in war-ravaged northern Syria. While Tillerson’s agenda is notably missing a stop in Israel, the secretary will meet with leaders in Turkey, as […]

Syria
Turkey

UkraineAlert

Feb 12, 2018

Is This the End of Mikheil Saakashvili in Ukraine?

By Melinda Haring

Today opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili was deported to Poland. For months he has been leading protests outside of Ukraine’s parliament, urging President Petro Poroshenko to resign. The Saakashvili drama has been ongoing; last year he was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship and then reentered the country illegally. In December, he was arrested and then broke […]

The Caucasus
Ukraine

In the News

Feb 12, 2018

Karatnycky in POLITICO: The Rise and Fall of Mikheil Saakashvili

By Adrian Karatnycky

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The Caucasus

In the News

Feb 10, 2018

Dungan Quoted in NBC News on Trump and Macron Relationship

By Nicholas Dungan

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France

UkraineAlert

Feb 9, 2018

What Do Ukraine, Congo, Cuba, North Korea, Tajikistan, and Venezuela Have in Common?

By Maxim Martynyuk

Since 2014, when a democratic revolution triumphed in Ukraine, there have been two kinds of reports coming from my country: those about Ukrainians’ heroic resistance against Russian aggression, and those about the corruption that is destroying the country. The truth, of course, is more nuanced and mundane: Ukraine is gradually advancing, sometimes with two steps […]

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Feb 8, 2018

What’s the Deal?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Atlantic Council analysts discuss agreement that could end political uncertainty in Germany German Chancellor Angela Merkel on February 7 moved a step closer to forming a coalition government that would include her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD). But first, more than 460,000 members of the SPD will need to approve […]

Germany

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