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In the News

Feb 15, 2018

Eristavi in Foreign Affairs: Can Ukraine Win Its War on Corruption?

By Maxim Eristavi

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Ukraine

In the News

Feb 15, 2018

Haring in Foreign Affairs: Can Ukraine Win Its War on Corruption?

By Melinda Haring

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NATO
Security & Defense

In the News

Feb 15, 2018

Fried in Politico Magazine: How Trump Can Hit the Reset Button on Russia Sanctions

By Daniel Fried

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Russia

In the News

Feb 15, 2018

Galante Joins BBC to Discuss Russian Strategic Intent

By Laura Galante

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Russia

UkraineAlert

Feb 15, 2018

We’re All In! Ukraine Moving Forward on Women’s Participation

By Lauren Van Metre

Women’s rights have made major strides in Ukraine since 2014. In particular, elevating the coordination of the government’s gender equality policies to the office of the Vice Prime Minister for EU and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, has led to real breakthroughs.

Ukraine

Event Recap

Feb 14, 2018

Reforming the European Union: The Franco-German Tandem and the Future of Economic Governance

By Global Business & Economics Program

On Wednesday, February 14, 2018, the Atlantic Council's EuroGrowth Initiative hosted a breakfast discussion on the changing Franco-German attitudes towards European Union (EU) economic governance.

Economy & Business
European Union

New Atlanticist

Feb 14, 2018

The United States and Turkey: NATO Allies at an Impasse

By Rachel Ansley

The US military continues to support a Kurdish militia in Syria that Turkey considers a terrorist organization, and Ankara has had enough. Now, as the Turkish military threatens to advance on Manbij, a town in northeastern Syria held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces that includes the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), Ankara is “going […]

Turkey
United States and Canada

SyriaSource

Feb 14, 2018

What Turkey’s Afrin Operation Says about Options for the United States

By Aaron Stein

The recent downturn in US-Turkish relations following the Turkish military’s cross-border military operation in Kurdish-held Afrin, dubbed Operation Olive Branch, should prompt a re-evaluation of American interests in Syria. Afrin is an enclave under the control of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its militia, the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG). The PYD is the Syrian […]

Turkey

MENASource

Feb 14, 2018

Russia: Is Syria’s fate Libya’s future?

By Erin A. Neale

On February 17th, Libyans will celebrate the anniversary of a revolt that ultimately toppled and killed Muammar Qaddafi, ending his forty-two-year oppressive rule. This anniversary and others in the region are regrettable reminders of how the expectations in the immediate aftermath of the Arab Spring compare to the reality on the ground seven years later. […]

Libya
Russia

In the News

Feb 14, 2018

Wilson Quoted in DW on Secretary Tillerson’s Visit to Turkey

By Ross Wilson

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Turkey

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