United States and Canada

The United States has enjoyed an unparalleled period of peace and prosperity since the end of the Second World War, due to its construction of a rules-based international order and maintenance of close alliances and partnerships. Canada has been a key partner for the United States, both due to their close economic links and their shared border, the world’s longest at 5,525 miles. Canada is also a key NATO ally for the United States and is active in international diplomacy around the world.

Missile Defence in Europe: The Next Salvo

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Twenty questions (and expert answers) about the Iran war

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Atlantic Council experts

As the US-Israeli war against Iran reverberates across the Middle East and the globe, Atlantic Council experts bring clarity to the fast-moving events.

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Missile Defence in Europe: The Next Salvo

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Mar 6, 2026

Inside Trump’s long-term economic strategy, with EXIM Bank’s John Jovanovic

By
Katherine Golden

At an Atlantic Council Front Page event, Jovanovic talked about the supply chains he is working to reshape, from critical minerals to energy.

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United States and Canada

Missile Defence in Europe: The Next Salvo

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Feb 25, 2026

Why the Arctic matters to the United States

By
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The region is rapidly becoming a geopolitical arena where Russia and China’s deepening cooperation challenges Western dominance.

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NATOSource

Feb 19, 2010

Missile Defence in Europe: The Next Salvo

By the Economist

From the Economist: If American technology develops as expected, by 2018 the new shield would cover almost all of NATO’s European members against an Iranian attack—only a small part of Turkey would be exposed. That is a big change from the previous scheme, which was intended mainly to protect America from an intercontinental threat, leaving chunks […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 18, 2010

Large NATO Exercise Starts in Northern Norway

By the Barents Observer

From the Barents Observer: Near 9.000 soldiers from 14 countries participates when the exercise Cold Response 2010 started in Northern Norway this week. This year is the first time such NATO exercise also includes Swedish territory. The exercise involves land forces, air forces and naval forces. The portal of the Norwegian Armed Forces reports that […]

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 17, 2010

Stage Set for New Fight Over Missile Defense

By the Cable

From the Cable: A new gambit by Russia to link missile defense to a still-pending nuclear arms agreement is threatening to throw another wrench into plans to quickly sign and pass the deal in Congress. Russian officials including Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have explicitly linked U.S. missile defense plans to the treaty. Now, two sources […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 17, 2010

Russia says U.S. Anti-Missile Shield Plans Could Affect Talks on Arms Cuts Pact

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: "Taking into account the present circumstances, this [the expansion of the U.S. anti-missile shield in Eastern Europe] has caused concern in the Russian government and Russian armed forces," General Nikolai Makarov, chief of Russia’s General Staff, said. "We look at this negatively…" Makarov said the new arms deal was 97% complete, with […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 17, 2010

Russia to Put Military Base in Georgia’s Abkhazia

By the AP

From the AP: President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia is to station a permanent military base in Georgia’s breakaway republic of Abkhazia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia, another separatist-held part of Georgia, declared independence after the 2008 Russia-Georgia war. Thousands of Russian troops are thought to have remained in the Moscow-sponsored republics, which Georgia and the West […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Alexander Dugin: Not even the USA will return South Ossetia and Abkhazia to Georgia

By the Georgian Times

From the Georgian Times: [excerpts of interview with Alexander Dugin, head of the Geopolitical Research Centre of Russia] The present Russian Government is absolutely pragmatic in geopolitical matters. It understands that there is a war going on between Russia and the USA over the post-Soviet countries. Rusia will support countries which reject closer ties with […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

NATO secretary general not sure of success in Afghanistan

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: “Victory in Afghanistan is not guaranteed, and NATO needs to change its strategy in the country, the alliance’s secretary general said Monday at a Washington-based think tank. “Despite everything that we have already done, reaching our goal in Afghanistan is not guaranteed,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen told an audience at the Atlantic Council. […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Unilateralism Thrust Upon Us?

Anne Applebaum presents a provocative question in the Washington Post: Europe might have a new phone number, but when Obama calls, the person on the other end of the line will still be unable to act. “Europe” will not be a unified entity capable of coordinating a unified policy in Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, the […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

NATO and the Nuclear Umbrella

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: As early as 1987, NATO foreign ministers proposed significant reductions of short-range nuclear weapons in their Reykjavik declaration. And 15 years ago, when U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry developed the formula that there is no need and no plan to deploy nuclear weapons to new NATO member states, he correctly […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 16, 2010

Russian NATO Envoy Pours Cold Water on Transdnestr’s Missile Proposal

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: Russia’s envoy to NATO has poured cold water on an offer by Moldova’s unrecognized republic of Transdnestr to deploy Russian missile defense elements… Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said Transdnestr’s move to deploy Russian Iskander missiles could lead to a serious regional conflict, and added that there could be no talk […]

United States and Canada
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Nonresident Senior Fellow

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Lize de Kruijf

Program Assistant, Economic Statecraft Initiative

Economic Statecraft Initiative GeoEconomics Center

Dutch Economy & Business

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Peter J. Dean

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Indo-Pacific Security Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Australia Conflict

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Tess deBlanc-Knowles

Senior Director, Atlantic Council Technology Programs

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Samuel Denney

Nonresident Fellow

Transatlantic Security Initiative

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