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Future Development

Tracking emissions by country and sector

Homi Kharas, Wolfgang Fengler, Reshma Sheoraj, Lukas Vashold, and Teodor Yankov

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

The Kremlin tones down the nuclear rhetoric

Steven Pifer

Monday, November 28, 2022

A view shows destroyed military vehicles after Russia's retreat from Kherson, in Kherson, Ukraine November 14, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Time for the West to think about how to engage with defeated Russia

Pavel K. Baev

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

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Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

US national interests are best served by stopping Vladimir Putin in Ukraine

Steven Pifer

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Reports

U.S. President Joe Biden descends from Air Force One at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York, U.S., October 6, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner REFILE- CORRECTING TOWN

Essay

Two cheers for Biden’s national security record

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Thursday, October 6, 2022

A ruined elevator near the railway on the way to the liberated Balakliya, Kharkiv region, on September 14, 2022. (Photo by Oleksandr Khomenko/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Essay

Putin’s war in Ukraine: A conversation with Fiona Hill and Angela Stent

Fiona Hill, Angela Stent, and Agneska Bloch

Monday, September 19, 2022

China's President Xi Jinping is shown on a screen through digitally decorated glass during the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, November 23, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

Report

Winning the web: How Beijing exploits search results to shape views of Xinjiang and COVID-19

Jessica Brandt, Bret Schafer, Elen Aghekyan, Valerie Wirtschafter, and Adya Danaditya

May 2022

Container terminal and city landscape in port of Dar es Salaam on February 21, 2018 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Report

How currency sanctions on Russia could disrupt trade with Africa

Chris Heitzig, Aloysius Uche Ordu, and Leo Holtz

Monday, May 23, 2022

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — April 2022

Friday, April 22, 2022

Blog Posts

people are seen seeking for train information as information board showing no trains information at cologne central railway station, in Cologne, Germany on September 9, 2022 as second days of defective signal box causing station into standstill (Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Order from Chaos

Russia may prefer sabotage of critical infrastructure over nuclear weapons

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Residents carry Ukrainian national flag as they gather in the Olympic Stadium to mark the Unity Day, the day Western intelligence agencies allegedly said they'd be invaded by Russia, in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 16, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Up Front

History reveals how to get Ukraine reconstruction right: anti-corruption

Lilly Blumenthal, Caleb Seamon, Norman Eisen, and Robin J. Lewis

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Africa in Focus

Russian disinformation in Africa: What’s sticking and what’s not

Mary Blankenship and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Monday, October 17, 2022

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Events

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Terminator on the battlefield: Emerging and evolving tech in the Russia-Ukraine war

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT

The 2022 Knight Forum on Geopolitics

9:00 AM - 12:15 PM EDT

Russia, France, and global disorder

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

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Related Books

Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest

By Angela Stent

2019

The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age

By James Kirchick

2017

Imperial Gamble

By Marvin Kalb

2015

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Experts

Steven Pifer

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative

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Pavel K. Baev

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Angela Stent

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

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Multimedia

A sign with the words "Nord Stream" stands in front of the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL long-distance gas pipeline (Ostsee-Pipeline-Anbindungsleitung - Baltic Sea Pipeline Link). The Nord Stream1 Baltic Sea pipeline, through which Russian natural gas has been flowing to Germany since 2011, ends in Lubmin near Greifswald. After the start of the war against Ukraine, Russia openly threatened for the first time to stop gas supplies through the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline.

Podcast Episode

Oil, gas, Russia, OPEC—What’s happening in world energy markets?

Samantha Gross and David Dollar

Monday, October 31, 2022

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, looks at a map with Ukraine Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 19, 2022. On a visit to Kyiv to show support for Ukraine, the top U.S. diplomat said Ukrainians should prepare for difficult days. He said Washington would keep providing defence assistance to Ukraine and renewed a promise of severe sanctions against Russia in the event of a new invasion.

Podcast Episode

Ukraine in the age of unpeace

Mark Leonard, Fiona Hill, and Jason Cowley

European Power

Friday, July 15, 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) speaks at a press conference at the end of the G-7 summit at Schloss Elmau.

Podcast Episode

Post-G7 summit, a time of great uncertainty in the global economy

Douglas A. Rediker and David Dollar

Monday, July 11, 2022

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