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Luke Coffey on Brexit and the Future of the Special Relationship
Podcast
Luke Coffey, Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, sits down with Jim Townsend to talk about the future of UK defense...
By Jim Townsend & Luke Coffey
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Trump Gets NATO Backwards
Commentary
Returning from the World War I armistice commemoration in Paris, President Trump reemphasized his view of America’s European allies. “We pay for large portions of other countr...
By Richard Fontaine
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LtGen Jan Broeks and LtGen Esa Pulkkinen on EU/NATO Cooperation
Podcast
LtGen Jan Broeks, DG of the NATO International Military Staff, and LtGen Esa Pulkkinen, DG of the EU Military Staff, sat down with Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend t...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Jan Broeks & Esa Pulkkinen
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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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Elisabeth Braw on Modern Deterrence
Podcast
Elisabeth Braw, an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), sits down with Jim Townsend and Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor to discuss what modern deterrence ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Elisabeth Braw
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Special Episode: Ulrike Franke on the State of German Politics
Podcast
Ulrike Franke, a Policy Fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations, speaks with Jim Townsend and Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor about the rapidly shifting nature of Germ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Ulrike Franke
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The United States Should Rally Behind European Strategic Autonomy
Commentary
It was May 2017 and it was the comment heard around the world. In the wake of a disastrous G7 Summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a campaign stop at a packed beer ten...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Anna Wieslander on Swedish Elections and the Nordic View of European Defense
Podcast
Anna Wieslander, the Director of Northern Europe with the Future Europe Initiative at the Atlantic Council, speaks to Jim Townsend about this year's elections in Sweden, as we...
By Jim Townsend & Anna Wieslander
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Has the Transatlantic Alliance Been Irreparably Damaged?
Commentary
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces dealing with the transatlantic relationship. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of e...
By Jim Townsend, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Richard Fontaine & Julianne Smith
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Combatting Disinformation in Lithuania
Podcast
Viktoras Daukšas, the Director of the Demaskuok.lt (DeBunk) Initiative, and Giedrius, one of the many “elves” fighting Russian trolls online throughout the Baltic region, sit ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Rachel Rizzo, Viktoras Daukšas & Giedrius
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Idaho is not immune to Russian meddling and disinformation
Commentary
On Jan. 6, 2017, the United States intelligence community released a report documenting Russia’s interference in our elections. One of us, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, was a senior ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Rachel Rizzo
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Angela Merkel Could Save Europe. Why Won’t She?
Commentary
Campaigning in the spring of 2017, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany declared at a packed beer hall in Bavaria that it was time for Europe to “take its destiny into its own ...
By Julianne Smith
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UK Director of International Security Policy on the US-UK Relationship and a Changing NATO
Podcast
Nick Gurr, the Director of International Security Policy at the UK Ministry of Defense, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the deep connections betwee...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Nick Gurr
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Fort Trump Is a Farce
Commentary
Last month, Polish President Andrzej Duda asked U.S. President Donald Trump to build a military base in Poland and even offered to pay $2 billion for it. Savvy to the workings...
By Jim Townsend
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Christian Mölling on German Defense Spending, Burden-Sharing, and Strategic Autonomy
Podcast
Christian Mölling, the deputy director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), sits down with Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the conversation...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Christian Mölling
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How Russia and China Undermine Democracy
Commentary
Russian and Chinese actions are converging to challenge the U.S.-led global order. Last month, China joined Russia in conducting the latter’s largest military exercises since ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & David Shullman
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GZERO World S2E5: Victoria Nuland and a Lonely Europe
Video
On the show, Ian Bremmer heads to DC to talk with former NATO ambassador and the Center for a New American Security CEO Victoria Nuland about why she thinks our European allie...
By Victoria Nuland
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Julie Smith and Jim Townsend Reflect on the Podcast and Julie’s Upcoming Transition to Berlin
Podcast
Julie Smith and Jim Townsend sit down for a bookend episode of Brussels Sprouts to look back on previous episodes and what they’ve learned from them. They also take the time t...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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The Trump mystery: Pathology or kompromat
Podcast
Skullduggery is on the road at the Aspen Security Forum at the Aspen Institute in Colorado. Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman sit down with Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Ca...
By Victoria Nuland & Rep. Adam Schiff
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Cold War Redux
Video
CNAS CEO Victoria Nuland participates in the Aspen Security Forum panel on the "Cold War Redux". Relations between the US and Russia, and Russia and the West as a whole, ...
By Victoria Nuland
