The “Blink-and-You’ll-Miss-It” Intervention in Kazakhstan
Last week’s Russian intervention in Kazakhstan came together so quickly that you might have been forgiven for assuming that a brigade or two of Russian troops simply got lost on their way…
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Emma Ashford
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Emma Ashford is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s New American Engagement Initiative, where she focuses on U.S.-Russian relations, Middle Eastern affairs, energy politics, and US grand strategy. She holds a doctorate from the University of Virginia.
Is Congress Seeking Accountability For The War In Afghanistan?
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The Cautionary Tale of the Pipeline
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A Promise to End America’s War in Afghanistan
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It's Time to Leave Afghanistan
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Foreign Policy Post-Election: A (Biden) Primer
It’s getting to be crunch time. In any normal election, this is the point at which candidates would be crisscrossing the country, shaking hands, kissing babies, and frantically trying to…
Foreign Policy Post-Election: A (Trump) Primer
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Stay Home, Save the World
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Cookies, Crystal Balls, and COVID-19
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been starting to worry I might be losing touch with reality. When I turn on the news, I see that the President has suggested our national goal is…
Oil in the Time of Corona
Yesterday, in the time it took me to discover that my local Target was completely out of hand sanitizer, the price of oil dropped by over 30%. For those playing the home game, that’s the…