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In the News

Feb 23, 2017

Stein Quoted by France 24 on Syrian Conflict in al-Bab

By Aaron Stein

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Syria Turkey

In the News

Feb 23, 2017

Stein Quoted by Wall Street Journal on Turkish Military

By Aaron Stein

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Turkey

In the News

Feb 22, 2017

Benitez Quoted by Newsweek on NSA Adviser McMaster, President Trump, and Russia

By Jorge Benitez

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Russia

In the News

Feb 22, 2017

Bryza Joins Accent to Discuss Georgia’s Strategic Relationship with Russia

By Matthew Bryza

Read the full interview here.

Russia
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NATOSource

Feb 22, 2017

Former NATO Commander Breedlove: Putin Feels Emboldened

By Philip M. Breedlove, Washington Times

[O]ur concerted focus on Russia’s interference in our election, as egregious as it was, puts us at risk of focusing on the wrong things.

NATO Russia

EconoGraphics

Feb 22, 2017

The United States Needs Europe and Vice-Versa

By Lu Ding & Ole Moehr

The United States is the world’s largest recipient of global foreign direct investment (FDI). On a current-cost basis, the US FDI stock was more than three times larger than that of the second largest destination country in 2014, the most recent year from which statistics are available. Despite the current fragile global economy and great political uncertainty, foreign investment in the United States remains strong.

Economy & Business European Union

In the News

Feb 21, 2017

Stein Joins Medyascope TV to Discuss US and Turkish Interests in Northern Syria

By Aaron Stein

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Syria Turkey

UkraineAlert

Feb 21, 2017

Ukraine’s Bitter Struggle: The Prequel

By Diane Francis

Ukraine is a nation interrupted, its identity and promise stolen by predators for centuries. The predation continues today as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s creeping invasion of Ukraine grinds on, resulting in the murder of 10,000 Ukrainians, destruction of two major cities and its industrial base, seizure of nine percent of its land, and flight of […]

Russia Ukraine

UkraineAlert

Feb 21, 2017

The KGB and Me

By Jeffrey Gedmin

We overlapped, Vladimir Putin and me. Putin arrived in Dresden in August 1985 as a 32-year-old KGB major. He was working undercover as a consular officer, recruiting academics, journalists, and business people to spy for the Soviet Union in the West. I was in Dresden and throughout communist East Germany often in those days; I […]

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NATOSource

Feb 21, 2017

Germany’s Self-Imposed Obstacles to Increasing Defense Spending

By Konstantin von Hammerstein and Peter Müller, Spiegel

Even now, the German military is having trouble spending its money sensibly. The structures are simply too complicated…

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