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Kurt Volker

Kurt Volker

Leading expert in US foreign and national security policy

Ambassador Kurt 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 2008–9. In 2006, the President of Estonia awarded Volker the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class, for supporting Estonia’s accession to NATO.
Subjects:
5G, Authoritarianism, China, Covid-19, Cybersecurity, Democracy, Eastern Partnership, Europe, Globalisation, History, Multilateralism, Russia, Transatlantic relations, United States
Updated: December 28, 2020

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