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Turkey’s Role in NATO and Regional Security Challenges

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Turkey’s Role in NATO and Regional Security Challenges

New Atlanticist
Mar 17, 2025

Enough carrots for Putin. For better negotiations, serve ‘maximum pressure’ instead.

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Since Russia appears content for negotiations to move slowly, the Trump administration should turn up the pressure with new sanctions.

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Turkey’s Role in NATO and Regional Security Challenges

Issue Brief
Mar 5, 2025

The EU must become a strategic player in defense—alongside NATO

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Justina Budginaite-Froehly

The European Union and NATO need renewed alignment on defense to meet the new geopolitical moment. Refocused cooperation would provide a critically needed burden sharing to eliminate vulnerabilities and prepare Europe to withstand new realities.

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The Eurasia Center discusses how the confluence of Russia’s war of attrition, economic decline, and energy damage impact the Russian Federation and its global standing.

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The reluctant consensus: War and Russia’s public opinion

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Turkey’s Role in NATO and Regional Security Challenges

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Mar 3, 2025

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Turkey’s Role in NATO and Regional Security Challenges

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Rebuilding the Ukrainian economy after Russia’s full-scale invasion will be a monumental task. Reconstruction can’t wait for peace and must be a well-coordinated, inclusive process.

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Apr 3, 2019

Turkey’s Role in NATO and Regional Security Challenges

By Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council NATO Engages 2019 “Conversation: Turkey’s Role in NATO and Regional Security Challenges”    Speaker: Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey   Moderator: Margaret Brennan, Moderator, “Face the Nation,” CBS News    Location:  Washington, D.C.   Time:  9:30 a.m. EDT Date:  Wednesday, April 3, 2019  

NATO Security & Defense

NATOat70

Apr 3, 2019

Turkish foreign minister says Ankara’s plan to buy Russian missile defense system is a ‘done deal’

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Çavuşoğlu argues Turkey should not be penalized with sanctions or dismissal from the F-35 program.

Defense Policy Defense Technologies

NATOat70

Apr 2, 2019

How NATO can succeed in the next seventy years

By David A. Wemer

“NATO is undergoing a transformation that needs to continue from being a reactive defensive alliance into a more proactive engaged alliance, to actually prevent future conflict," Gen. James L. Jones, Jr. says.

Defense Technologies NATO

New Atlanticist

Apr 2, 2019

Theresa May’s poisoned chalice

By John M. Roberts

The prime minister’s appeal to Jeremy Corbyn constituted a last-ditch attempt to try to wrest at least a degree of control of the Brexit process back into her own hands.

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UkraineAlert

Apr 2, 2019

What the business community wants from Ukraine’s next president

By Andy Hunder

Sending law enforcement officers in balaclavas armed with Kalashnikovs kicking down a company’s office door in a frantic search for financial records or tax documents is quite possibly the worst message a government can send to business owners, shareholders or executives. This is what I told President Petro Poroshenko a couple of years ago in […]

Elections Fiscal and Structural Reform

New Atlanticist

Apr 2, 2019

Reinvigorating NATO’s nuclear deterrence posture through transparency

By Aaron Richards

It is important for NATO to revive the role of its nuclear deterrence posture through clear messaging and effective confidence-building measures that will strengthen its security in future threat environments.

NATO Nuclear Deterrence

UkraineAlert

Apr 2, 2019

What does comedian’s big win mean for Ukraine?

By Volodymyr Yermolenko

Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy won the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election on March 31 and has a strong chance of winning the run-off on April 21. Zelenskiy will face incumbent Petro Poroshenko, who won just under 16 percent. Zelenskiy’s strong performance caught some off-guard, but the results of the election says at least seven important […]

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Issue Brief

Apr 2, 2019

Transatlantic air power and what to do now

By General Frank Gorenc, USAF (Ret.)

While the United States and its NATO Allies and partners have enjoyed three decades of air supremacy, the pendulum is now swinging in the other direction. As a great power competition with Russia plays out in Europe, the United States and its Allies in NATO must reassess the role and importance of the air domain to transatlantic security.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

Issue Brief

Apr 2, 2019

Transatlantic air power and what to do now

By General Frank Gorenc, USAF (Ret.)

While the United States and its NATO Allies and partners have enjoyed three decades of air supremacy, the pendulum is now swinging in the other direction. As a great power competition with Russia plays out in Europe, the United States and its Allies in NATO must reassess the role and importance of the air domain to transatlantic security.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

Report

Apr 2, 2019

Dealing with the offshore economy

By Alan Riley

The West, with its rule of law and creation of the Western-governed offshore economy, has given corrupt elites in developing countries the tools and capacity to avoid ever establishing the rule of law in their own countries.

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