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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 […]

NATO
Northern Europe

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 […]

Central Europe
Germany

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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NATO
Northern Europe

In the News

Jan 5, 2017

Nimmo Joins Public Radio International to Discuss the Baltic States, Trump, and Putin

By Ben Nimmo

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NATO
Northern Europe
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at Warsaw Summit, July 6, 2016

NATOSource

Jan 5, 2017

10 Most Popular NATO Stories of 2016

By Jorge Benitez, Director of NATOSource

2016 was full of major developments in European security. Moscow’s campaign against the Western democracies went beyond the DNC hack and interference in the US elections.

Cybersecurity
Germany

New Atlanticist

Jan 4, 2017

Latvia Heads Into 2017 Relying On Its Own Mettle—And NATO Metal

By Teri Schultz

‘Channeling Brussels’ with Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs While the entire world carefully watches how 2017 unfolds, especially developments between the White House and the Kremlin, the Baltics are among those with the most finely-tuned binoculars.  Worst-case scenarios may be simply hypotheses for debate in other countries, but in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania they are […]

NATO
Northern Europe

In the News

Jan 4, 2017

Hellyer in The National: The Separation of Church and State Isn’t Always Clean

By H.A. Hellyer

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Northern Europe
United Kingdom
Norwegian exercise Viking Ymer, Nov. 21, 2016

NATOSource

Jan 3, 2017

Norway, an Exemplar of NATO Burden-Sharing

By Sigurd Neubauer, Foreign Affairs

Norway has certainly benefitted from U.S. security guarantees and has, in the process, transformed itself from an impoverished nation, at the end of World War II, to one of the world’s richest today.

NATO
Northern Europe

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