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Jonathan Paris Discusses Syrian Crisis with France 24
Jonathan Paris, nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, appeared on France 24 to discuss Russia's support for the Assad regime and what it means for a possible UN resolution against Syria.
Damon Wilson US Senate Testimony: Ukraine at a Crossroads
On February 1, Atlantic Council executive vice president Damon Wilson testified at a hearing of the US Senate Committe on Foreign Relations on the topic: "Ukraine at a Crossroads: What's at Stake for the US and Europe?"
Michele Dunne on US-Egypt Relations for NPR's Morning Edition
Relations between the US and Egypt have taken a downturn since Egyptian authorities raided the offices of seventeen nongovernmental organizations in December - three of them US-funded. Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, spoke on NPR's Morning Edition about the situation and what it means for US aid to Egypt.
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The South Asia Center receives guidance and support from many experts throughout the world. Our senior fellows, guest-speakers, Center patrons, and visitors contribute heavily to the Center’s mission to “wage peace,” and engage the international community in the region. The Center asked our contributors the simple, but key question, “What you do expect in 2012?”
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Debate: Is Russia Rational?
James Joyner | September 16, 2008
A question that has been raised repeatedly, both explicitly and implicitly, since Russia's invasion of Georgia is the degree to which Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev are rational actors. Surely, many argue, it makes no sense for Russia to risk isolating itself from the West to make a point? Especially when that point has to do with the limits of the expansion of NATO, which Western observers insist is a benign club that obviously means Russia no harm.
In "Russia a Rational Actor? Da!" Christopher Harness, a visiting fellow at the Council, argues that Russian interests are starkly different from the West and their leaders are willing to risk short-term economic fallout to stop NATO expansion and reassert themselves as a great power.
In, "Russia a Rational Actor? Nyet!" Robert Manning, an Atlantic Council senior advisor, makes the negative case, arguing that Russian actions are driven by emotion rather than logic and represent a serious miscalculation of risk and rewards.
James Joyner is managing editor of the Atlantic Council. Photo credit: Times of London.
