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Jan 19, 2024 | 
targetednews.com | Kimberly Marten |Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Carisa Nietsche |Nicholas Lokker
New Center for a New American Security Report: 'Potential Russian Uses of Paramilitaries in Eurasia' January 19, 2024WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (TNSres) -- The Center for a New American Security issued the following news release on Jan.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Kimberly Marten |Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Carisa Nietsche |Nicholas Lokker
Washington, January 17, 2024 — Today, the Center for a New American Security released a new report, Potential Russian Uses of Paramilitaries in Eurasia by Dr. Kimberly Marten, Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Carisa Nietsche, Nicholas Lokker, and Kristen Taylor. The report argues that while much remains uncertain following the June 2023 mutiny of Russia’s Wagner Group and the death of its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in August 2023, Russia will likely continue to work with semi-state armed formations.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Stacie L. Pettyjohn |Kimberly Marten |Carisa Nietsche
Executive SummaryWhile much remains uncertain following the June 2023 mutiny of Russia’s Wagner Group and the August death of its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russia will likely continue to work with semi-state armed formations.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Nicholas Lokker |Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Carisa Nietsche |Jim Townsend
Heading into the January 2024 Finish presidential elections, the spotlight remains on foreign policy, an area where the Finnish head of state wields considerable influence. At the forefront of Finland’s foreign policy, however, is Russia and the nature of Helsinki’s future relationship with its neighbor. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Helsinki broke from its decades-long policy of formal military non-alignment by applying for and receiving membership in NATO.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Carisa Nietsche
In his speech before the UN General Assembly, President Joe Biden highlighted the importance of forging partnerships and building inclusive coalitions of countries to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Yet, the war in Ukraine has revealed the absence of such a global coalition condemning Russia, highlighting the disconnect between the United States and those countries not formally aligned with or against a major power.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Carisa Nietsche |Nicholas Lokker
Although these defects may seem unrelated, they are in fact inextricably linked. Until the European Union’s representation problems are fixed, the bloc is unlikely to succeed in bolstering its sovereignty—as citizens will push back against Brussels’s perceived illegitimate power grabs. With European Parliament elections around the corner in 2024 and a more treacherous geopolitical environment highlighted by the war in Ukraine, waiting for this inevitable backlash is not an option.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
thediplomat.com | Carisa Nietsche
Coordinating with allies and partners is a critical pillar of the United States’ semiconductor strategy. To date, the United States has engaged with allies and partners through a constellation of bilateral and plurilateral coalitions, including Chip 4, the Quad, the U.S.-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET), the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, and the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council, among others.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Carisa Nietsche
This measure represents a first step in laying the transatlantic foundations for global AI governance. The AI Code of Conduct was presented as a joint U.S.-EU initiative to produce a draft set of voluntary commitments for businesses to adopt. It aims to bridge the gap between different jurisdictions by developing a set of non-binding international standards for companies developing AI systems ahead of legislation being passed in any country. Read the full article from Euractiv.
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Jul 12, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Richard Fontaine |Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Lisa Curtis |Carisa Nietsche
Image credit: NATO July 12, 2023 By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Lisa Curtis, and Carisa Nietsche From July 11-12th, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) met in Vilnius, Lithuania to address pressing challenges faced by the alliance, enhance NATO's deterrence and defense capabilities, and foster closer ties between Ukraine and the alliance. Following the summit, CNAS experts analyzed the potential impact of the summit and the strength of the alliance generally.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
cnas.org | Carisa Nietsche |Robert Kaplan |Jim Townsend
Ukraine knows it isn’t in their interests to strike the Kremlin, which makes the allegations of a drone strike ‘mysterious,’ says Jim Townsend, Former Deputy Secretary of Defence for Europe and NATO. Watch the full interview with Times Radio.
