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member Samuel Charap (Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation) co-authored a commentary with Jeremy Shapiro for the Atlantic Council, on ‘Why We Must Talk to Russia’. He argues that “[b]efore we condemn ourselves to another Cold War that only China can win, we prefer to explore whether we can have a stable competition with Russia”. Read the full text here.
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Institutionalised and forward-looking security and defence cooperation during the war and interim period are critical security guarantees for Ukraine. Kateryna Anisova writes that the G7-EU-coalition-of-willing nexus can assure a comprehensive and mutually reinforcing approach for bolstering Ukraine’s capabilities and integrating it into the Euro-Atlantic security system before the war ends.
Alisiya Ivanova is a Junior Analyst at the Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations (Belarus). She also holds a position of an Assistant Project Manager at Project Syndicate (Czech Republic). Alisiya is also acting as an Administrative Associate at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue...
Britta Redwood holds a J.D. from Yale Law School a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University. She previously worked at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, a global law firm headquartered in New York. In 2019, she joined the International Crimes and Accountability program at the European...