Elisabeth Braw

Senior Fellow @AtlanticCouncil @foreignpolicy @politicoeurope Globalisation/geopolitics. Greyzone aggression. Goodbye Globalization @yalebooks Own views.

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Articles

Britain can lead the way in making the high seas safer

3 days ago | thetimes.com | Elisabeth Braw
Russia Is Trying to Push River Borders

5 days ago | almendron.com | Elisabeth Braw

Almost a year ago, Russian border guards removed half the buoys that had been placed to mark the border between Russia and Estonia in the Narva River. Estonia’s government has repeatedly (and politely) reminded Russia to return the buoys, without which users of the Narva River have no way of knowing on which side of the border they are. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Russia has failed to do so.
We started checking Russian shadow vessel insurance. Now what?

1 week ago | politico.eu | Elisabeth Braw

Sundry commentators and social-media users have reacted to the shadow fleet’s blatant and extremely regular journeys through the Baltic Sea by suggesting the coastal states ought seize these vessels, or even sink them, and detain their crews, but it’s not as simple as that either. Stopping shadow vessels is actually far more complicated due to global maritime rules — rules that are violated by shadow vessel owners but should nonetheless be observed by Western countries.
Russia Is Trying to Push River Borders

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Elisabeth Braw

Military Russia Elisabeth Braw Almost a year ago, Russian border guards removed half the buoys that had been placed to mark the border between Russia and Estonia in the Narva River.
America Should Recycle Its Own Rare Earths, Not Grab Ukraine’s

2 weeks ago | foreignpolicy.com | Elisabeth Braw

Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event.
Beware Denmark’s quiet power

2 weeks ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Elisabeth Braw

The United States wants Greenland. Indeed, Donald Trump and JD Vance say the United States needs Greenland. Verbally, Danish leaders are gently but firmly pushing back. But Denmark’s real resistance is likely to occur in the world of business.
Subsea sabotage puts European power at risk

4 weeks ago | ft.com | Elisabeth Braw

The writer is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an adviser to Disruptive Industries, a threat intelligence company A spectre is...
We need to pay closer attention to Svalbard

4 weeks ago | politico.eu | Elisabeth Braw

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. What happens in Svalbard doesn’t look like it’ll be saying in Svalbard. The archipelago is located nearly 1,000 kilometers from Norway’s northernmost city, Tromsø, and is home to just 3,000-or-so people. In recent years, however, Russia has repeatedly used it to experiment with different provocations.
Is America Becoming More Corrupt?

1 month ago | foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Adam Tooze |Elisabeth Braw |Cameron Abadi

The United States’ richest billionaires got prime seating at President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Elon Musk attended the administration’s first cabinet meeting. But just how much influence do the wealthy have on U.S. politics? For several years now, key metrics on social mobility and corruption have shown that the United States has been becoming less equal and more corrupt. According to Sen.
With or Without the US, NATO Exercises Are Priceless

1 month ago | cepa.org | Elisabeth Braw |Edward Lucas |Andrii Vdovychenko |Ruth Deyermond

The biennial Exercise Joint Viking, which ended on March 14, is the largest military drill in Norway and the alliance’s most important recurring Arctic war game. Without it, operational cooperation will waste and NATO armies will be less prepared to repel a Russian attack. Will there be another in 2027? And if there is, will US forces join the 10,000-strong drill? Even as Joint Viking was underway, the US military denied reports it planned to pull out of all NATO exercises from this year.