Dimitri Trenin Carnegie Moscow Center The world is probably entering a period of new bipolarity, in which the main players will be the United States and China. The situation will prompt various states to address the question of how they relate to the new central axis of global rivalry, this time ...
News
The NATO leaders summit that ended Wednesday featured many of the debates that have come up before in the alliance's 70-year history, but there was also a newer topic on the agenda: China. "That's a relatively new addition for the alliance, to start thinking about the security challenges th ...
Qassem Suleimani was killed as part of a broader strategy of deterring challenges by US foes that also applies to China and Russia, the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has said, further diluting the assertion that the senior Iranian general was targeted because he was plotting imminent attacks o ...
SUN, JAN 12, 2020 Energy security and geopolitics: Return to the past or a new world? Transcript by Atlantic Council 5,193 Fans 12 Subscribers ...
"A 'geopolitical' commission must demonstrate geopolitical activity." - Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden, 8 January 2020 Background On 10 January 2020, the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union will meet to discuss current affairs, recent developments in Ir ...
Great meeting today in Tirana organized by SESC (Southeastern Security Center) with the presence of Ministers, former Ministers, Members of Parliament, Media, Military personel. The key note Speaker was US Army General Michael Barbero the former Commander of Military Transition in Iraq and NATO Com ...
By James M. Inhofe Jan. 7, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. GMT+1 James M. Inhofe, a Republican, represents Oklahoma in the U.S. Senate and is chairman of the Armed Services Committee. With only about four days’ hindsight, it is fair to say that President Trump’s decision to author ...
New Atlanticist by Atlantic Council In response to the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, Iraqi lawmakers passed a measure on January 5 that calls for the removal of foreign military troops in the country and the cancelling of an agreement that saw US forces stationed in Iraq to help f ...
New Atlanticist by David A. Wemer Related Experts: William F. Wechsler,Barry Pavel, Barbara Slavin, Matthew Kroenig, Frederic C. Hof, Thomas S. Warrick, C. Anthony Pfaff, Borzou Daragahi, Richard LeBaron The assassination of a top Iranian military official in Iraq on January 2 is the most dramatic ...
New Atlanticist by Abbas Kadhim In early 2019, I predicted that US forces would remain in Iraq this past year despite calls in parliament to pass a law mandating their withdrawal. My prediction was right. My prediction for 2020 is that no US forces will remain in Iraq by the end of the year. As s ...
New Atlanticist by Om Arvind and David A. Wemer 2019 was a year full of diplomatic breakthroughs, dramatic elections, and daunting new challenges on the global stage. Here is a look back at the biggest moments of 2019 and what our Atlantic Council experts had to say about them: January 23: ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BALKANS TO THE SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510 JAMES M. INHOFE Chair of Armed Service Committee Mr. President, it is of the utmost importance that we recognize that the Balkan Region is critical to United States' interests in Europe due to the implic ...
Close