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Aug 18, 2014

Wilson and Brzezinski on Ukraine Crisis

By Damon Wilson

Executive Vice President Damon Wilson and Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski are quoted by USA Today on the latest fighting in Ukraine. 

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In the News

Aug 18, 2014

Karatnycky: Cease-fire Not Viable for Ukraine

By Adrian Karatnykcy

Transatlantic Relations Program Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky is quoted by Dow Jones Newswires on the latest fighting in Ukraine: 

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In the News

Aug 18, 2014

Damon Wilson on Putin’s Endgame

By Damon Wilson

Executive Vice President Damon Wilson speaks with Bloomberg TV about Putin’s endgame in Ukraine. 

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, June 25, 2014

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Aug 15, 2014

NATO Chief Confirms ‘Russian Incursion’ into Ukraine

By Reuters

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday a “Russian incursion” into Ukraine had occurred overnight, but stopped short of characterizing it as an invasion.

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In the News

Aug 15, 2014

Menon on the West’s Sanctions Against Russia

By Rajan Menon

South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Rajan Menon writes for The National Interest on the West’s sanctions policy toward Russia:

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Issue Brief

Aug 14, 2014

Why nuclear deterrence still matters to NATO

By Matthew Kroenig and Walter B. Slocombe

Over the past two decades, nuclear weapons have been deemphasized in NATO planning, but this should not be interpreted to mean that the Alliance has abandoned the core principle that a nuclear attack will meet a nuclear response, or that NATO will not retain the necessary means to deliver such a response. In the latest […]

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, March 2, 2014

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Aug 14, 2014

NATO’s Crucial Summit

By F. Stephen Larrabee and Ian J. Brzezinski, CNN GPS

Just weeks before its scheduled September 4 summit in Wales, NATO is bogged down in bureaucratic wrangling and losing important momentum.

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"Disengagement is misguided and dangerous"

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Aug 14, 2014

US Disengagement from International Leadership is ‘Misguided and Dangerous’

By Richard Fontaine and Michèle Flournoy, National Interest

The United States has sought to disengage from Iraq and Afghanistan, placing more emphasis on when our troops would come home than on how we would protect our national interests as those wars end.

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, August 14, 2014

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Aug 14, 2014

Special Summit Series: Norway and NATO

By Magnus Nordenman

Norway is in many ways a unique NATO member that currently finds itself in an advantageous position in comparison to its fellow European allies.

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UkraineAlert

Aug 14, 2014

New Ukraine Orthodox Leader Signals Continued Church Divide

By Irena Chalupa

Ukrainians’ Traditional Loyalty to Moscow Patriarch is Strained by His Close Tie to Kremlin  The longstanding divide between Ukraine’s two main Orthodox churches will continue with little change following the election yesterday of a new leader, or metropolitan, by the Moscow-aligned faction. Metropolitan Onufriy is a religious conservative loyal to his church’s formal subordination to […]

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