ORIENTING EUROPEAN SECURITY: THE EU STRATEGIC COMPASS AND EU-US DEFENSE COOPERATION - Putin’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine is upending the European security order and leading to a re-evaluation within the European Union as to its role as a security provider. The EU Strategic Com...

A CONVERSATION WITH MINISTER OF DEFENCE OF GERMANY CHRISTINE LAMBRECHT - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has catalyzed what German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called a Zeitenwende, a sea change in Germany’s strategic outlook, culminating in a historic shift of Germany’s foreign and defense policy. Within...

A CONVERSATION WITH THE BALTIC PRESIDENTS - Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine will have momentous consequences for the transatlantic community and security and defense architecture in Europe for years to come. Eighteen years after the accession of the Baltic states to NATO, Estonian President Al...

BALTIC PERSPECTIVES ON RUSSIA - Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine marked a turning point in the post-Cold War world order, forcing Europe and the West to urgently reflect and reassess our shared security posture. While NATO allies have reinforced the Alliance’s Eastern flank over the past e...

2022 CHRISTOPHER J. MAKINS LECTURE: A CONVERSATION WITH UK FOREIGN SECRETARY LIZ TUSS - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked a defining moment of transatlantic unity, and the United Kingdom has played a leading role in the transatlantic response, from implementing sanctions and reinforcing NA...

CONVERSATION WITH ADMIRAL CRAIG FALLER: GLOBAL AND LATIN AMERICAN IMPLICATIONS OF RUSSIA’S INVASION - On February 24, Russia launched an unjustified and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. In a show of Western unity unseen in decades, the United States and NATO coordinated behind a multi-pronged resp...

SOS UKRAINE: A CONVERSATION WITH BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY - Bernard-Henri Lévy, philosopher, filmmaker, and author, has spent more than 50 years extensively reporting on human rights abuses around the world. His latest book, The will to see: Dispatches from a world of misery and hope, and accompanying ...

A CONVERSATION WITH HEAD OF THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE ANDRIY YERMAK - Russia has massed over 100,000 troops on or near Ukraine’s borders for months. At the same time, it has demanded negotiations with the United States and European powers with a view towards receiving legal guarantee...

WHAT’S NEXT FOR UKRAINE? A CONVERSATION WITH ARSENIY YATSENYUK - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rose to power by promising to cut through Kyiv’s political hurdles and finally bring about much-needed reform. His presidency has been far from easy, and experts have cautioned that some moves take the ...

REIMAGINING UKRAINE: A DISCUSSION WITH YEVHEN HLIBOVYTSKY - Civil society in Ukraine continues to drive the country’s Euro-Atlantic trajectory from the ground up. Dynamic leaders and organizations are dismantling the old Soviet-era institutions and replacing them with modern, uniquely Ukrainian e...

UNDERMINING UKRAINE: HOW RUSSIA WIDENED GLOBAL INFORMATION OPERATIONS IN 2023 - On the morning of February 24, 2022, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine changed the fragile balance of power in Europe. The largest armed conflict on the continent since World War II, Russia’s assault on Ukraine ...

WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE UKRAINIAN CHILDREN KIDNAPPED BY RUSSIA? - Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, international watchdogs and human rights organizations have tracked more than nineteen thousand Ukrainian children illegally abducted by Russia and relocated to Russia, Be...

US-LATVIA RESILIENCE CONFERENCE - Join the Atlantic Council and Center for East European Policy Studies for the US-Latvia Resilience Conference at Atlantic Council headquarters.

The current period of heightened geopolitical uncertainty has been defined by shifting power dynamics, ongoing conflic...

EXAMINING RUSSIA’S ASSAULT ON UKRAINE’S CULTURAL HERITAGE - Join the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and the Antiquities Coalition for an event announcing the Antiquities Coalition’s newest Ten Most Wanted Antiquities object: a Ukrainian artifact from Mariupol that disappeared during Russia’s f...