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International Centre for Defence and Security

Kurt Volker

Distinguished Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis

Kurt Volker has served as the US Ambassador to NATO and as executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership. Ambassador Volker is a leading expert in US foreign and national security policy with over 30 years’ experience in a variety of government, academic and private sector capacities. He served as US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations from 2017 to 2019, and as US Ambassador to NATO in 2008–2009. He has been a senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies since September 2009, and a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council since October 2009. Currently, Ambassador Volker is a distinguished fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. In 2006, the President of Estonia awarded Ambassador Volker the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class, for supporting Estonia’s accession to NATO.
Subjects:
5G, Asia, Authoritarianism, China, COVID-19, Cybersecurity, Defence, Democracy, Eastern Partnership, Elections, Europe, Globalisation, History, Mali, Middle East, Multilateralism, NATO, Russia, Security, Terrorism, Transatlantic relations, Ukraine, United States
Updated: August 25, 2021

Agenda

Middle East
Will the Arab Spring Wither or Bloom?
LMC 2011
Making Values Count
LMC 2011
Elections, United States
Foreign Policy of the US Elections
LMC 2012
Middle East, Security, Terrorism
Sliding Fast: Can Syria Be Saved?
LMC 2012
NATO, Transatlantic relations
Transatlanticism after the “Pivot”: Alliance, Partnership or Divergence?
LMC 2013
Mali, NATO
Mali: Can We Intervene, Can We Afford Not To?
LMC 2013
3 more

Articles

Authoritarianism, China, COVID-19, Democracy, Globalisation, History, Multilateralism, Russia
Building the Post-pandemic World

The West should pull itself together in order to compete with China and Russia.

Kurt Volker
LMC 2020

Talks

Toomas Hendtik Ilves and Kurt Volker
5G, Authoritarianism, China, Cybersecurity, Democracy, Eastern Partnership, Europe, Russia, Transatlantic relations, United States
A Glimmer of Hope at the End of 2020?

2020 has shaken the world, but is there a glimmer of hope at the end of the year? In the transatlantic community expectations are high for some sort of renaissance in relations between Europe and the US when Joe Biden takes over the White House…

Kurt Volker ,  Toomas Hendrik Ilves
December 28, 2020

In the news

Курт Волкер: нас ждёт нестабильное будущее, в котором по-прежнему можно зарабатывать деньги

Деловые Ведомости, September 23, 2021