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In the News

May 27, 2016

Bryza Quoted by Trend on Prospects for Nagorno-Karabakh Settlement Following Azerbaijan-Armenian Presidential Meeting

By Matthew Bryza

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The Caucasus

In the News

May 27, 2016

Herbst Quoted by CNN on Russia’s Potential Reactions to NATO

By John Herbst

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NATO Russia

In the News

May 27, 2016

European Energy Security Conference Quoted by Daily News on US Energy Development

By Atlantic Council

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Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

Emerging Defense Challenges

May 27, 2016

Daily Sabah Features Turkey Defense-Industrial Policy

By James Hasik

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Defense Industry Security & Defense

In the News

May 26, 2016

Ian Brzezinski Quoted by USA Today on European Perception of Trump’s Foreign Policy

By Ian Brzezinski:

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Europe & Eurasia

UkraineAlert

May 26, 2016

Europe’s Humanitarian Fatigue Threatens to Engulf Ukraine

By Andrew Kornbluth

Earlier this month, Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz, presidents of the European Commission and Parliament, respectively, published an appeal for continental solidarity in which they criticized “anyone who believes that the time of the nation-state has come” as “out of touch with reality.” The inaccuracy of Juncker and Schulz’s statement is reflected in the comparative […]

Europe & Eurasia European Union

Issue Brief

May 26, 2016

Cyber, extended deterrence, and NATO

By Franklin D. Kramer, Robert J. Butler, and Catherine Lotrionte

Cyber is relevant in conflict as well as in lesser circumstances such as espionage and crime. This paper focuses on a conflict, both conventional and hybrid, with an adversary, such as Russia, that has advanced cyber capabilities (Tier V/VI as designated by the Defense Science Board) and includes a conflict with an improving, but less capable nation-state such as Iran.

Cybersecurity Europe & Eurasia
Dutch Patriot battery deployed in Turkey, Jan. 25, 2013

NATOSource

May 26, 2016

Estonia Calls for Patriot Shield to Deter Russia in Baltic Region

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

Patriot missiles are needed in the Baltic states to deter a Russian invasion, Estonia’s defence chief has warned.

Missile Defense NATO

Event Recap

May 26, 2016

The Changing Face of Kremlin Propaganda

By Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center

On May 23, 2016, the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, along with IREX and the Free Russia Foundation, hosted a paneled event discussing the nature of modern Russian propaganda.

Europe & Eurasia Russia

UkraineAlert

May 26, 2016

The Many Hopes of Nadiya Savchenko

By Irena Chalupa

“I’ve been in a prison cell for two years, I’m not used to people, so I am sorry if I sound harsh,” said Nadiya Savchenko as throngs of journalists and well-wishers crowded around her at Kyiv’s Boryspil airport on May 25. Captured in Ukraine, transferred secretly to Russia where she was tried and sentenced to […]

Ukraine

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