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Echo24 | nder Donald Trump, Wess Mitchell was the top official in Europe at the State Department. Today, he works in a think-tank that profiles itself on the turn to Asia. But now war has broken out in Europe in the terrain he knows........
Sveriges Radio | The defense alliance has been tested, but after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO countries have stood shoulder to shoulder. Wess Mitchell joins Sweden's national public radio........
Foreign Policy | The impending Russian invasion of Ukraine offers an unexpected opportunity for the United States to deal decisively with Russia in a way that also advances U.S. strategic objectives in Asia........
Sky News | Russia-Ukraine tensions have "the potential to escalate into a global security crisis... of the kind we haven't seen in many decades", says Dr. Wess Mitchell, former Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs........
Foreign Policy Research Institute | Wess Mitchell is interviewed by Robert Kaplan about Europe’s past, present, and future........
The Reagan Institute | Roger Zakheim and Wess Mitchell discuss the recent Russian military buildup along Ukraine's border and the Biden Administration's response......
The Wall Street Journal | When the young empress came suddenly to power, European rivals prepared for her quick defeat. They were mistaken......
Foreign Policy | U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate diplomacy with China is rooted in the fantasy that Washington can turn Beijing into a constructive global partner simply by treating it like one.....
The Marathon Initiative | This paper examines how the 19th Century European statesmen Klemens von Metternich and Otto von Bismarck dealt with the problem of multi-front competition in grand strategy.......
The Economist | "But such bilateral deals are bad news for nato," says Wess Mitchell, an American former state department official who co-chaired a reflection group for the alliance last year. The new pact “will be viewed in nato and especially by eastern members of the alliance as implicitly undermining Article Five,” he says.......