EU defense: Because EDIP and EDIDP are not the same thing and it can get confusing, jacopo barigazzi and I cooked a cheat-sheet on EU defense acronyms. politico.eu/article/europe…

Such a pleasure to discuss NATO burden-sharing with Camille Grand & Barry Posen at GU Security Studies #NATO75 conference, expertly moderated by Brian Blankenship. Congrats to Sara Bjerg Moller for putting together such an excellent day-long programme!

Navalny wrote a memoir before Putin killed him and it’s coming out this fall. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/boo…

In L'Express, an interview with 'le grand spécialiste' of the #UnitedNations .

C'est moi.

lexpress.fr/monde/richard-…

Cette semaine dans Cultures Monde nous avons parlé 🔎 :
1.En #Russie 🇷🇺, les services secrets sur le pied de guerre
2. #Chine 🇨🇳 : les réseaux tentaculaires de l’espionnage
3. La #CIA au 🤍 du jeu politique 🇺🇸
4. #Israel 🇮🇱: Mossad &Tech main dans la main
➡️ radiofrance.fr/franceculture/…

On the last episode of the Brussels Sprouts podcast CNAS , we discussed Macron, Ukraine and Russia with Bruno Tertrais Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend - have a listen here 👇

Ravi d’être intervenu ce matin aux côtés de Paul Charon et Antoine Izambard pour discuter avec Julie Gacon des services de renseignement chinois

FRS

'The fallacy of the ‘West versus the rest’ worldview' brilliant piece by Ishaan Tharoor washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/… based on the formidable lecture given by Matias Spektor at The Brookings Institution last week: brookings.edu/events/the-10t…

Solar eclipse and stellar panels today at Georgetown University🌌!
An enlightening event altogether, exploring the past and future of #NATO , 4 days after the Alliance's 75th anniversary, and 3 months ahead of the Washington summit.

Greatest Tweet of All Time?

Ce qu’on a notamment vu depuis Washington DC. Superbe photo de l’éclipse par 📸 Élise Morcos. #eclipsetotale

German Defense Minister bringing up - probably with backing of Chancellery - to pause the debt brake for defense Max Bergmann - there might be real thinking behind this

Wonderful to celebrate #NATO and its strategic evolution over the past 75 years, including by looking at how its preparing for a world of growing strategic competition. 🙏 Sara Bjerg Moller Georgetown University Georgetown UniversityCSS 🙏 great to share a panel with Tara_Varma Luis Simón Ivo Daalder

Julianne Smith About NATO partnership with the IP 🌏: ‘the two theaters are inter-linked’, the focus is on ‘NATO with (not IN) the IP’, and ‘you have allies because their security matter to you, not for burden-sharing’. A great panel! with Luis Simón Dr Benedetta Berti Ivo Daalder Tara_Varma.

On April 4th, NATO turned 75. We're celebrating with a conference today at GU Security Studies - all info here: css.georgetown.edu/natoat75/
I'll be moderating a session on NATO and the Indo-Pacific at 2PM EST with Dr Benedetta Berti Ivo Daalder & Luis Simón

Happy to be back in DC to speak at a great event at ⁦Georgetown University⁩: “NATO at 75: Charting a New Course” with so many good friends and colleagues css.georgetown.edu/natoat75/

The latest CNAS episode of Brussels Sprouts tackles France’s approach to Moscow, w/ Andrea Kendall-Taylor Jim Townsend and Tara_Varma

Why apply Cold war criteria here? I've argued that British and French proximity, more immediate interests can make extended deterrence *more* credible than the US one. Size, diversity are much less critical. We should not judge deterrence requirements with 1970s lenses.

On Brussels Sprouts, Tara_Varma noted: “This is a big and concrete change in terms of Macron seeing Eastern European priorities as true European priorities.” Listen to this conversation with Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend. cnas.org/publications/p…

My Election24 explainer for Brookings Foreign Policy: Why do Europe’s strongmen love Trump?
(Strategic, personal, and economic reasons that make illiberal regime and autocracies love the MAGA president)
brookings.edu/articles/why-d…