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Feb 17, 2017

Grigas in Al Jazeera: The Baltic States: No Easy Target

By Agnia Grigas

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Northern Europe

Event Recap

Feb 15, 2017

Private dinner with Latvian Ambassador Andris Teikmanis

By Amelie Rausing

On February 15, 2017, the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative hosted a private dinner with H.E. Andris Teikmanis, ambassador of Latvia to the United States, for an invitation-only discussion that was attended by transatlantic leaders from both the public and private sector. As US President Trump takes office and European unity is challenged both within […]

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UkraineAlert

Feb 8, 2017

Six Outrageous Lies Russian Disinformation Peddled about Europe in 2016

By Jakub Janda and Ilyas Sharibzhanov

Russian disinformation is working overtime to undermine European democracies. Much of the disinformation in 2016 came from original Russian sources that presented poorly digested information designed to provoke and to push an agenda that the Kremlin finds favorable. It aims to disconnect ordinary European citizens from supranational EU institutions and national politicians. With key elections in […]

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Danish Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen

NATOSource

Feb 2, 2017

Danish Intelligence Report Warns NATO Members of New Russian Cyberattacks

By Gerard O’Dwyer, Defense News

Russia has the willingness and capacity to launch serial cyberattacks against Denmark and any neighboring Nordic or Baltic state

Cybersecurity Intelligence

Event Recap

Feb 2, 2017

Strategy session with Dr. Krzysztof Szczerski, secretary of state, Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland

By Mary Rouse

On Thursday, February 2, the Future Europe Initiative hosted a strategy session for Dr. Krzysztof Szczerski, secretary of state, Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. The session focused on the Three Seas initiative, a joint strategic undertaking by the governments of Poland and Croatia to drive forward the connectivity and integration of […]

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UkraineAlert

Feb 1, 2017

Are the Baltic States Really Indefensible?

By Stephen Blank

One of the great canards of our time is that the Baltic states are indefensible. Although the reasons for making this argument are rarely spelled out, they revolve around the presumption that Russia not only enjoys local conventional superiority, but also that NATO cannot and often implicitly should not defend them and thereby make a […]

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In the News

Jan 21, 2017

Braw in Politico: Bring Back the Draft. No, Really.

By Elisabeth Braw

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Northern Europe

In the News

Jan 19, 2017

Braw in Foreign Affairs: Norway’s Radical Military Experiment

By Elisabeth Braw

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Northern Europe

UkraineAlert

Jan 18, 2017

How Far Will Putin Dare to Go in 2017?

By Peter Dickinson

From Brexit to Trump, 2016 was the year fake news became headline news. In Ukraine, however, it was old news. Ukrainians are living through the third winter of an ongoing hybrid war with Russia, a conflict driven to a remarkable degree by fake news. But fake news is only one of the many hybrid war […]

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In the News

Jan 8, 2017

Nordenman Quoted by Defense News on the Emerging Alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway

By Magnus Nordenman

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