Europe
A hydrocarbon pipeline directed westward is cut off by the Kremlin for political purposes.
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April 23, 2018
Diluting Disinfo
The answer to these questions is clear. The Kremlin is unfit to run a tea party, let alone a broadcaster. Russia is now a tier-one national security threat. It is by far the most plausible perpetrator of the frightening chemical weapons attack in Salisbury, which put three people in the hospital. It makes mischief wherever […]
April 16, 2018
Improving Sanctions
Hit the Russian elite’s assets abroad, increasing the pressure on Vladimir Putin, who will then stop menacing Russia’s neighbors and abusing his subjects’ human rights. That is the theory behind the West’s policy towards the Kremlin—which I support. But beware of wishful thinking.
March 27, 2018
The Strategic Balancing Act
Deterrence and resilience are the two tasks facing the West as the threat from the Kremlin becomes ever clearer. Striking the balance between the two is the strategic challenge for the coming years.
March 26, 2018
The Suwalki Corridor
NATO’s choke point Any effective political and military alliance must understand its weakest links and take urgent remedial action. The Suwalki Corridor, a 65-kilometer-wide strip of territory linking Poland with Lithuania, is NATO’s most vulnerable choke point along its eastern flank. In the event of conflict between Russia and NATO, Russia’s military—operating from the Kaliningrad […]
March 12, 2018
Catalonia awakens questions
In the second report of a two part series, CEPA’s Edward Lucas re-examines independence movements from the Baltics to Crimea in order to find lessons learned amidst the self-determination process.
March 12, 2018
Putin’s New Weapons
Small boys often dream of magic weapons—a death ray or a knockout spray—that will confer stardom, obliterate enemies, or at least enliven a boring lesson.
March 5, 2018
The View From Moscow
Sound and Fury. The Kremlin’s overall goal remains the same: to retain power for as long as possible and, apparently, at almost any price.
March 1, 2018
Russia After Putin
Russia’s Alternative Futures
February 7, 2018
Why Moscow Fears NATO
Moscow has manufactured a thick mist of disinformation about NATO in order to disguise its expansionist policies in Eastern Europe.