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In the News

Oct 17, 2016

Shaffer Quoted by POLITICO Pro’s Morning Energy on the Twenty-Third World Energy Congress in Istanbul

By Brenda Shaffer

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Turkey

In the News

Oct 17, 2016

Linderman Interviewed by Democracy & Freedom Watch on Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections and Its Future

By Laura Linderman

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The Caucasus

In the News

Oct 16, 2016

Bedenbaugh Quoted by VOA News on Kosovo’s Progress Against Radicalism

By Sarah Bedenbaugh

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The Balkans

EUSource

Oct 14, 2016

EU Source: Mixed signals for EU-Canada trade deal

By Future Europe Initiative

THIS WEEK’S KEY TAKE-AWAYS EU to fast track adoption of new derivative rules Mixed signals for EU-Canada trade deal ratification  EU privacy concerns loom over global services trade deal

European Union International Organizations

In the News

Oct 14, 2016

Grigas in The Hill: Trump Underestimates The Russian Cyber Threat

By Agnia Grigas

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Russia

In the News

Oct 14, 2016

Kroenig in the Weekly Standard: Nuclear Trash Talk

By Matthew Kroenig

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Russia

Event Recap

Oct 13, 2016

Enhancing security and defense in the Baltic States

By Lauren Speranza and Marija Vaicekauskaite

On October 13, the Transatlantic Security Initiative hosted a private roundtable on “Enhancing Security and Defense in the Baltic States”. The session featured a keynote address by LTG Jonas Vytautas Žukas, Chief of Defense of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, and a moderated discussion led by James Hasik, Nonresident Senior Fellow for Defense with the Brent […]

NATO Northern Europe

New Atlanticist

Oct 13, 2016

The Rise of the Strongman

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US official cites challenges to making the case for internationalism, free trade, open borders In the prevailing atmosphere of growing nativism and xenophobia, the phenomenon of the strongman is on the rise across the globe, said a senior US official, and this will be the case as long as people believe that the world will […]

European Union International Organizations

Event Recap

Oct 13, 2016

The illiberal turn: Reasserting democratic values in Central and Eastern Europe

By Susan Haigh, Amelie Rausing

On October 13, 2016, the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative and Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center hosted a public conference “The Illiberal Turn?: Reasserting Democratic Values in Central and Eastern Europe.” This conference was organized in partnership with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), the International Republican Institute (IRI), and the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), […]

Central Europe Civil Society

In the News

Oct 13, 2016

Farkas Quoted by Bloomberg on US-Russia Relations

By Evelyn Farkas

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