Podcasts January 16, 2025 Trump, Russia, and the Strategic Context Where does the US stand in the world as Trump (re)assumes office? How is his approach towards Ukraine shaping up? Stephen Wertheim, Senior Fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins Aaron... Read more	Analysis January 13, 2025 Pacific Island Affairs and US Diplomatic Relations By: Michael Walsh Under the Biden administration, there have been a number of extraordinary events that have had a significant impact on US diplomatic relations with the Cook Islands, New Zealand, and Niue. Among other things, the Pacific Partnership Strategy changed the... Read more	Analysis December 27, 2024 The Evolution of Baltic Military Divisions By: Lukas Milevski Ten years ago in 2014, Baltic defense was paltry. The defense budgets of the three Baltic states, but especially Latvia and Lithuania, were suffering from the financial crisis of 2008, and their armies were all negligible. Baltic defense was... Read more
Analysis December 23, 2024 45 Days in Ukraine, 1,000 Days in War By: Kaspars Germanis The title of this essay would have been a little bit different if I had spent five more days in Odesa as planned. “50 days in Ukraine, 1,005 days in war.” That would be a neat summary of my... Read more	Analysis December 19, 2024 Women in Baltic Politics and Political Leadership By: Ausra Park Significant and, arguably, profound changes took place in Baltic high politics over the past four years. The peak pandemic years — 2020 and 2021 — proved quite pivotal for both Lithuania and Estonia, as both saw the emergence of... Read more	Conversations December 17, 2024 NATO’s Future: The Philadelphia Perspective with Rep. Brendan Boyle By: Walter Landgraf, Rep. Brendan Boyle (PA-02) This conversation was recorded in late November and has been edited for clarity. Rick Landgraf: This is the Ties That Bind, NATO at 75 and Beyond, a podcast of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Today, I’m speaking with Congressman... Read more
Analysis December 16, 2024 The Impact of Russia Sanctions on Central Asia By: Maximilian Hess Since Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine and invited the largest international sanctions regime against Russia since the Second World War, Central Asia and the Caucasus have been forced into an uncomfortable position at the front of... Read more	Analysis December 13, 2024 The New ‘Baltic Way’: Assessing the Baltic Defensive Line Concept By: Kevin Ryan This article was originally written as a USAWC Fellow Strategy Paper for the United States Army War College under the direction of Dr. (COL Ret.) Robert Hamilton. On August 23rd, 1989, an estimated two million citizens from the countries... Read more	Analysis December 13, 2024 Czech Republic Faces an Uncertain Political Future By: Robert Beck Following underwhelming provincial and senatorial elections in the fall of 2024, the Czech Republic prepares to enter the critical year of 2025 with a divided electorate, an unpopular and shrinking coalition government, and a resurgent populist opposition. Facing an... Read more