Tag: Atlantic Council

(USA/ROK) Report release: The future of the US-ROK alliance (Atlantic Council)

Barry Pavel, Miyeon Oh, Robert Dohner, Alexander Vershbow, Markus Garlauskas, Todd Rosenblum As the 2020s open with a global pandemic, an enduring North Korean threat, and the continued rise of...

(USA/ROK) Advancing US-ROK cooperation on nuclear energy (Atlantic Council)

Stephen S. Greene The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) are longstanding civil nuclear partners. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/advancing-us-rok-cooperation-on-nuclear-energy/

(USA) The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election (Atlantic Council)

On January 6, 2021, an armed mob stormed the US Capitol to prevent the certification of what they claimed was a “fraudulent election.” Many...

(USA/Russia) Three big takeaways from Biden’s first Russia sanctions (Atlantic Council)

Brian O’Toole, Daniel Fried After weeks of speculation, we now know how the Biden administration will sanction Russia in direct response to the poisoning, sentencing, and detention of...

(Ukraine/Russia) Why Ukraine sanctioned Putin’s ally Medvedchuk (Atlantic Council)

Andriy Yermak On the morning of February 20, one of Ukraine’s most powerful men awoke to find himself on a sanctions list issued by his...

(USA/Syria/Iran) Experts React: US airstrike in Syria targets Iran-backed militias (Atlantic Council)

William F. Wechsler, Kirsten Fontenrose, Barry Pavel, Barbara Slavin, Thomas S. Warrick, Borzou Daragahi, Abdulrahman al-Masri, C. Anthony Pfaff, Nader Uskowi, Mark N. Katz, Karim Mezran, Masoud Mostajabi On February 25, the US military carried out airstrikes in...

(USA/Russia) How to deploy economic tools against Putin’s aggression (Atlantic Council)

Brian O’Toole, Daniel Fried On February 22, the Biden administration took its first actions in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s long list of aggressive and repressive actions:...

(USA/Saudi Arabia) After the Khashoggi report: How the US can respond and avoid blowback (Atlantic Council)

Kirsten Fontenrose The new US administration has been carefully timing three major movements on Saudi Arabia this week: the release of a declassified intelligence report...

(Russia) Russia’s collective punishment of the Crimean Tatars is a war crime (Atlantic Council)

Wayne Jordash and Anna Mykytenko According to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), 26 February, 2014, is the date that marks the beginning of...

(USA/Iran) With Iran, nuclear diplomacy comes first (Atlantic Council)

Mehran Haghirian Since Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, the new administration’s top foreign policy and national security figures have said repeatedly that the United...

(USA/Russia/Europe) Biden must freeze Putin’s pipeline and prevent this “bad deal for Europe” (Atlantic Council)

Benjamin Schmitt In August 2016, then US Vice President Joe Biden stood in Stockholm and declared the Kremlin-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline project to be a “bad...

(Afghanistan/USA) Afghans’ views on the Doha peace process and the Biden administration’s review of the US-Taliban peace agreement

Makhfi Azizi After briefly resuming on January 5, the intra-Afghan peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban have been slow to progress, and the two sides have not met since the...

(USA/China) Delist or not delist: A $2.2 trillion US-China auditing dispute (Atlantic Council)

Jeremy Mark The economic and financial forces set in motion by the COVID-19 pandemic—global recession and ultra-loose monetary policies that have driven a cross-border search...

(Russia) Russia after Putin: How to rebuild the state (Atlantic Council)

Anders Åslund and Leonid Gozman We do not know when and how Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime will end, but there are signs that it...

(Europe) Josep Borrell outlines the EU’s priorities in a multipolar world (Atlantic Council)

Larry Luxner Now that there’s a new administration in Washington, six urgent topics dominate the European Union’s international agenda: rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, counteracting climate...

(Global Governance) The world’s wealthy countries are at risk of a moral default (Atlantic Council)

Vasuki Shastry and Jeremy Mark After a four-year hiatus, multilateralism and global cooperation have made a decisive return to the American president’s agenda. The Biden administration’s...