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New Atlanticist

Sep 21, 2017

With a Little Help from My Friends: How Sweden is Balancing its Security in the Baltics

By Anna Wieslander

Sweden is currently conducting its largest military exercises in over twenty years. Almost 20,000 Swedish troops are participating in Aurora17, which will run until September 29. They are joined by military units from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Lithuania, Norway, and the United States, which has sent more than 1,000 troops, including a Patriot missile battery, […]

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In the News

Sep 10, 2017

Braw in the Financial Times: The Benefits of Conscription are Economic as Well as Military

By Elisabeth Braw

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In the News

Aug 30, 2017

Grigas in Reuters: A Win for Trump’s Gas Diplomacy

By Agnia Grigas

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Defense Industrialist

Aug 30, 2017

An EU navy is impossible; Fortunately, it’s not necessary.

By James Hasik

To rebuild robust naval forces, Europeans should think less like Americans, and more like Russians. As I noted yesterday, Brexit has opened all sorts of talk about the future of British and European military activities. To continue the argument today, let’s tack towards naval matters. In “All the Queen’s Ships” (Proceedings of the US Naval Institute, January […]

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In the News

Aug 21, 2017

Grigas Quoted in Financial Times on Lithuania Buying US Natural Gas

By Agnia Grigas

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In the News

Aug 21, 2017

Grigas in Financial Times: Lithuania Becomes First Ex-Soviet State to Buy US Natural Gas

By Agnia Grigas

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In the News

Jul 29, 2017

Farkas Quoted by POLITICO on Pence’s Visit to Estonia

By Evelyn Farkas

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In the News

Jul 29, 2017

Brzezinski Quoted by POLITICO on Pence’s Visit to Estonia

By Ian Brzezinski

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UkraineAlert

Jul 17, 2017

Twelve Myths about Change in Ukraine

By Alexander J. Motyl

Most Ukrainians will tell you that “nothing has changed” since the Euromaidan Revolution. Meanwhile, most Ukrainian analysts bemoan that Ukraine’s elites are resisting change and that, unless Ukraine changes more quickly, the country will backtrack and be lost. And everyone seems to agree that no change is possible unless corruption is fully eliminated. These views […]

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New Atlanticist

Jul 7, 2017

Private Sector Support Sought for Three Seas Initiative

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald J. Trump has provided “valuable” support to the Three Seas Initiative, but he can go further by encouraging US businesses to participate in the plan that seeks to improve trade, infrastructure, and energy links among the twelve nations between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović said at the […]

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