Europe & Eurasia

Lagadec featured in CNN on fact checking claims that NATO members struggled to cover annual funding of the organization

By Erwan Lagadec

On March 5, Transatlantic Security Initiative nonresident senior fellow Erwan Lagadec was quoted in CNN on fact checking claims that NATO members struggled to cover the $3 billion in annual funding of the organization. He further noted that the only NATO member providing any sign of leaving the alliance was the US under the Trump […]

Manza featured in Deutschen Welle on the role of cultural biases in the failed international military operation in Afghanistan

By John Manza

On March 3, Transatlantic Security Initiative nonresident senior fellow John Manza was quoted in Deutschen Welle on the role of cultural biases in the failed international military operation in Afghanistan (text in German).  

Webster in The China-Russia Report: Will China’s emergence from COVID lockdowns send European gas prices soaring?

Lipsky quoted in CNBC about Russia’s missing reserves

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#BalkansDebrief – Is a deal on normalization between Kosovo & Serbia possible? | A debrief with Miroslav Lajčák 

Nonresident Senior Fellow Ilva Tare speaks with Miroslav Lajčák, EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues, on this episode of #BalkansDebrief about the latest meeting in Brussels, details of the EU brokered plan, implementation of any future agreement, and the path forward.

Wieslander cited in New York Times on Ukraine’s European future

“Now there’s more sympathy and the feeling that Ukraine is a part of Europe, but that’s sentimental and not hard-core,” said Anna Wieslander of Sweden, director for Northern Europe for the Atlantic Council organization. “What’s the plan ahead? That’s what I’m missing,” she added. “There’s no discussion of what the membership criteria in a new […]

Webster quoted in China Digital Times on China’s economic support for Belarus