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The Power Vertical is a blog and podcast for Russia wonks and Kremlin watchers by Brian Whitmore. It covers emerging and developing trends in Russian politics, shining a spotlight on the high-stakes power struggles, machinations, and clashing interests that shape Kremlin policy today.

Host and Eurasia Center Senior Fellow Brian Whitmore invites guest experts to deliver their insights and analysis in this weekly podcast. The Atlantic Council and the Charles T. McDowell Center for Global Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington co-sponsor this production.

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UkraineAlert

Mar 29, 2016

Sick of the Ukraine Crisis? Then Arm Ukraine

By Alexander J. Motyl

Building Up Ukraine’s Military is the Counterintuitive Solution to Peace Western policymakers who believe the Minsk accords would work if only Ukraine made the requisite constitutional and electoral concessions are missing a key point: that they, and Russia, forced Ukraine to make security its priority by violating the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances. Russia […]

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Mar 29, 2016

Ward Quoted by Reuters on NATO and the Baltic States

By Alex Ward

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Russia
Donald Trump, Feb. 10, 2011

NATOSource

Mar 29, 2016

Trumping NATO: Candidate Would Accelerate a US Retreat Begun Under Obama

By Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal

Mr. [Donald] Trump has a stream-of-unconsciousness way of speaking, so it isn’t clear whether he knows that NATO spent a decade fighting terrorism in Afghanistan, before President Obama pulled up stakes on the mission.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

In the News

Mar 29, 2016

Cole’s “Ghost Fleet” Reviewed by CIA’s “Intelligence in Public Media”

By August Cole

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China Russia

In the News

Mar 28, 2016

Polyakova Quoted by Svoboda On What to Expect From Russian Foreign Policy and US Elections

By Alina Polyakova

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Elections Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Mar 28, 2016

Grigas in Newsweek: Brussels Attacks – Europe’s Turmoil is Putin’s Gain

By Agnia Grigas

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Russia Western Europe

In the News

Mar 28, 2016

Herbst Interviewed by The Day (Ukraine) on the Results of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Talks with Russian Leadership

By John E. Herbst

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Russia Ukraine

In the News

Mar 27, 2016

Manning in The National: Nuclear Security is an Important Consideration for Gulf Countries

By Robert A. Manning

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China Middle East
Russian ballistic missile submarine

NATOSource

Mar 25, 2016

Russia’s Growing Threat to Norway and the North Atlantic

By Jacob Bojesson, Daily Caller

While much of Russia’s aggression has been targeted at Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, Norway’s geopolitical location, and border to Russia, continues to define its defense planning.

NATO Northern Europe

In the News

Mar 25, 2016

Vajdich in The American Interest: Why Putin’s Turkey Sanctions Will Boomerang

By Daniel P. Vajdich

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Russia Turkey

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