With the world distracted by pandemic, Putin is seeking to circumvent U.S. sanctions and give Nord Stream 2 a new lease on life. We should sanction those enabling him—starting with Gerhard Schröder. While the world has been preoccupied with the global coronavirus pandemic and the ravaged economi ...
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The Trump administration’s decision to unilaterally withdraw additional military forces from Germany is short-sighted and unsettling. Why now? And why during these so unsteady times? We’ve already drawn down so much in Europe and serious, unresolved threats clearly remain. Is this a carefully ...
Major crises have major consequences, usually unforeseen. The Great Depression spurred isolationism, nationalism, fascism, and World War II—but also led to the New Deal, the rise of the United States as a global superpower, and eventually decolonization. The 9/11 attacks produced two failed Americ ...
Foreigners aren’t laughing at us. They pity and discount us. by William J. Burns Contributing writer at The Atlantic and President of the Carnegie Endowment Moments of national crisis ought to bring Americans together. Instead, led by a divisive president, our society is being ripped ap ...
In the space of a year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has gone from marking its 70th anniversary to focusing on building an alliance for the future. On June 8, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg laid out his plans for a new period of reflection on the Alliance’s mission and structure over ...
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BY HAL BRANDS AND JAKE SULLIVANMAY 22, 2020 Xi Jinping’s China is displaying a superpower’s ambition. Only a few years ago, many American observers still hoped that China would reconcile itself to a supporting role in the liberal international order or would pose—at most—a challenge to U. ...
TV report: Security officials warn Netanyahu that China could abuse project to spy; Pompeo, on recent visit, cautioned against Beijing gaining ‘access to Israeli infrastructure’ Israel is reportedly set to reject Chinese bids for the deployment of fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, both b ...
Several businesses are attempting to restore the United States' rare earth minerals and metals industry, as the federal government seeks to reduce its dependence on China, the world's leading miner, processor and exporter of the materials. Why it matters: Rare earth minerals and metals are us ...
Mr. David Philips, Head of the Peacebuilding and Human Rights Program at Columbia University, in collaboration with the Southeast European Security Center, led by Republican Party Chairman Fatmir Mediu, organized a forum on the status and Future of Kosovo. The conference was atten ...
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COVID-19 is the biggest global threat in existence, infecting large swathes of the global population, killing hundreds of thousands, and forcing billions into lockdown. The transatlantic community should have been able to deal efficiently with a pandemic, at least theoretically – not just as a m ...
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