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Demystifying Putin: Dr. Angela Stent on What Putin Wants
Podcast
Dr. Angela Stent, Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University, provides an answer to the oft-asked question: what does Puti...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Rachel Rizzo & Dr. Angela Stent
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Challenge Accepted: Why America Needs to Confront Its Adversaries in the Gray Zone
Commentary
The return of great-power competition has dominated the national-security discussion in the United States since the release of the 2018 National Defense Strategy. However, lit...
By CDR Bob Jones
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Russia and China are outwitting America
Commentary
With U.S. politics as polarized as at any point in modern history, it would seem an unlikely moment for a new bipartisan consensus about U.S. foreign policy to emerge. Yet tha...
By Vance Serchuk
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Minister Jüri Luik on Baltic security, NATO, and Russia
Podcast
Minister Jüri Luik, the Estonian Minister of Defense, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Rachel Rizzo to discuss Baltic security, NATO, and Russia....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Rachel Rizzo & Jüri Luik
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The Building of Russia's Geopolitical Momentum
Commentary
Since returning to office in 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pursued a course of action that has enabled him to significantly enhance Russia’s position on the globa...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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An Emerging China-Russia Axis?: Implications for the United States in an Era of Strategic Competition
Prepared Statement Thank you to the Commissioners for the opportunity to testify today. The Commission has asked me to focus on assessing Russian and Chinese goals in the Midd...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Podcast: The Autocrat’s New Tool Kit
A new set of technological tools—some of them now maturing, others poised to emerge over the coming decade—seem destined to wind up in the hands of autocrats around the world....
By Richard Fontaine, Kara Frederick & Paul Scharre
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The Autocrat’s New Tool Kit
Commentary
Chinese authorities are now using the tools of big data to detect departures from “normal” behavior among Muslims in the country’s Xinjiang region—and then to identify each su...
By Richard Fontaine & Kara Frederick
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Andrew Weiss on Russia
Podcast
Andrew Weiss, James Family Chair and Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Andrew Weiss
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Autocracy’s Advance and Democracy’s Decline: National Security Implications of the Rise of Authoritarianism Around the World
Congressional Testimony
Submitted Written Testimony Chairman Schiff, Ranking Member Nunes, distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to be here. I served for almost a dec...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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U.S. Russia Policy: Moving Beyond Sanctions
Commentary
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor: As long as he is in power, Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to substantively change his strategic calculus, despite Western economic pre...
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Europe and the United States: A Diverging Approach Toward Russia?
Commentary
By Rachel Rizzo: Over the course of the past two years, the U.S.-European relationship has gone from bad to worse. President Trump has repeatedly derided NATO allies, called ...
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Transatlanticism, Interrupted
Commentary
Of all the smears that US President Donald Trump has made, his mendacious claims about the European Union are perhaps the most egregious. “Nobody treats us much worse than the...
By Julianne Smith
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A Question of Statecraft
Commentary
Any Western policymaker working in the field of national security over the past decade has had to grapple with the same disheartening reality: the structures and processes tha...
By Julianne Smith
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Congress must face reality in exposing Russian aggression
The shakeup of members of the new Congress provides an opportunity for changing United States foreign policy. After two years of criticizing much of what the Trump administrat...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Neil Bhatiya
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Alina Polyakova on the Russian Provocation in the Sea of Azov
Podcast
Dr. Alina Polyakova, the David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend for...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Alina Polyakova
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High stakes on the high seas
Video
President Donald Trump said he was "not happy at all" about a dangerous new crisis involving Russia and Ukraine. CNN's Brian Todd reports with the latest from the White House....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The United States' Greatest Strength Over Russia and China is Its Alliance with Europe
Commentary
President Donald Trump has rightly recognized that America must do more to stand up to Chinese and Russian threats to U.S. interests. While most agree that having a national s...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Julianne Smith
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Trump Should Urge Europe to Resist Putin’s Pipeline Politics
President Donald Trump may not have an agenda to guide his huddle with Russian President Putin on the margins of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, but the G20 does. Unfortun...
By Jim Townsend
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Phil Carter on why Russia is Still the Real Scandal
Confronted by the glare of Thursday’s dazzling Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, we all focused on the bright shiny object that was and is former FBI Director J...
By Phillip Carter
