BY JAMIE SHEA, Atlantic Council
Back in the spring of 2008, I was enjoying a quiet moment in my office at NATO headquarters when the phone rang. My assistant told me that the new Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT), Gen. James Mattis, was making his courtesy calls to NATO in Brussels and would drop by in ten minutes to talk to me. (more…)
Steven Pifer, Brookings Institute
On December 21, the United Nations General Assembly voted down a Russian-proposed resolution calling for support for the INF Treaty. That Moscow gambit failed, in large part because Russia is violating the treaty by deploying prohibited missiles. (more…)
After Pushing Back the Islamic State and Losing Kirkuk, What Comes Next for Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.
By Daniel Benaim, Center for American Progress (more…)
ΤHe senior analyst -specialized in Turkey- of American Enterprise Institute in Washington explains why Turley should leave NATO and the U.S. should change its strategy against Turkey, analyzing also Russian-Turkish relations, the situation at Eastern Mediterranean region, as well as the situation in Syria. (more…)
The senior analyst of American Enterprise Institute expains why he is not optimistic about the future of Greek Economy. From the very beginning of the Greek fiscal crisis, Desmond Lachman supported the view that IMF’s program for Greece would not solve the problems and that austerity would devastate the social fabric. (more…)