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In the News

Jul 12, 2016

Brzezinski in CNN: NATO Faces Up to Russian Challenge

By Ian Brzezinski

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NATO Heads of State at Warsaw Summit, July 8, 2016 (photo: NATO)

NATOSource

Jul 12, 2016

NATO’s Warsaw Summit: A Refreshed Alliance for Troubled Times

By the Editors of the Guardian

[L]ast week in Warsaw, the alliance held a gathering for a new era – one in which Europe’s collective security and territorial defence are once again Nato’s core mission, and with new resources to fulfil it.

NATO Security & Defense

UkraineAlert

Jul 12, 2016

Ukraine’s Art Arsenal: Where Culture and Politics Crossed Swords

By Kateryna Smagliy

During his July 7 visit to Kyiv, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the United States will pour an additional $23 million in aid into Ukraine. Radiating sincerity, President Petro Poroshenko said this decision was a “vivid reflection of a deep trust that the United States has for Ukraine” as well as Ukraine’s […]

Ukraine

UkraineAlert

Jul 12, 2016

At Warsaw, NATO Agrees to Thwart Putin’s Revisionist Dreams

By John E. Herbst

NATO leaders finally demonstrated at the Warsaw Summit on July 8 and 9 that they understand the dangers of a revisionist Kremlin, and they approved significant measures to resist it. Unlike the Wales Summit in 2014, which noted that ISIS was an “existential threat to NATO” but made no similar claims about the marauding nuclear […]

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In the News

Jul 12, 2016

Hof Quoted by Washington Post on Potential US Partnership with Russia on Syria

By Frederic Hof

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In the News

Jul 12, 2016

Stein in Middle East Eye on Party Split in Far Right Turkish Politics

By Aaron Stein

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Bremain vs Brexit

Jul 12, 2016

Wilson Joins Radio Poland to Discuss Washington’s Growing Role in European Politics After Brexit

By Damon Wilson

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New Atlanticist

Jul 11, 2016

Turning Brexit into Reality

By Ashish Kumar Sen

UK’s incoming prime minister, Theresa May, faces task of negotiating with the EU Incoming British Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged to move ahead with taking the United Kingdom out of the European Union, and this is the most likely future course, said the Atlantic Council’s Fran Burwell. However, a Brexit is not inevitable. “There […]

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Event Recap

Jul 11, 2016

Unwrapping the NATO Warsaw Summit

By Lauren Speranza & Marija Vaicekauskaite

On July 11, 2016 the Atlantic Council hosted a private roundtable with General Denis Mercier, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation on “Unwrapping the NATO Warsaw Summit.” Gen. Mercier briefed out the key deliberations and conclusions of the Alliance’s July 8-9 Warsaw Summit. A select group of experts, including Julie Smith of the Center for a […]

European Union International Organizations

UkraineAlert

Jul 11, 2016

Euromaidan Leaders Launch New Party in Ukraine. Can It Succeed?

By Adrian Karatnycky

As Europe lurches in the direction of populism, xenophobic anti-immigrant attitudes, and anti-EU posturing, Ukraine appears to be tilting the other way. Located largely outside European discourse for the last twenty-five years, Ukraine is now odd man out, with pro-EU sentiments running high, xenophobic attitudes largely absent, and not one but two initiatives under way […]

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