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Daniel Fried

Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council

Ambassador Dan Fried is a retired US Diplomat and a Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council. During his forty-year Foreign Service career, Ambassador Fried played a key role in designing and implementing American policy in Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. As Special Assistant and United States National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Presidents Clinton and Bush, Ambassador to Poland, and Assistant Secretary of State for Europe (2005-09), Ambassador Fried helped craft the policy of NATO enlargement to Central European nations and NATO-Russia relations. Ambassador Fried helped lead the west’s response to Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine starting in 2014. As State Department Coordinator for Sanctions Policy, he crafted US sanctions against Russia, the largest US sanctions programme to date, and negotiated the imposition of similar sanctions by Europe, Canada, Japan, and Australia. As Polish Desk Officer in the late 1980s, he was one of the first in Washington to recognise the impending collapse of Communism in Poland and helped develop the immediate response of the George HW Bush Administration. 
Subjects:
Authoritarianism, China, Democracy, Economy, Europe, European Union, Future, History, NATO, Russia, Security, Transatlantic relations, Ukraine, United States, USA, West
Updated: April 16, 2025

Agenda

Russia’s Well-Oiled War Machine 
LMC 2025
The Wonderful World of Sanctions and Export Controls
LMC 2024
A Time to Build: Principles for a New Security Architecture
LMC 2023
The Sinews of War: Sanctions and Sanctions Busting
LMC 2023
China, Economy, European Union, Russia, Transatlantic relations, Ukraine, United States, West
Economic Pressure, Hard Foreign Policy Tool?
LMC 2022
Lennart Meri Lecture
LMC 2022
2 more

Articles

Authoritarianism, Democracy, Europe, History, Russia, USA, West
Lennart Meri Lecture 2022 by Ambassador Daniel Fried

Time Flies, as this conference observes. Tempus fugit - time marches on, as the saying goes. So what? Does the march of time have meaning? Does the passage of time tend to bring progress? Are human beings, over time, on an ascendent track, morally and…

Daniel Fried
LMC 2022
China, Democracy, Europe, Russia, Security, Ukraine, USA
Options for Rules-Based Players in a Changing Global Order

The future should be built on the right lessons from the past rather than the wrong ones. It is crucial to reach out to Russian people. China is not attempting to trash the international order the way Vladimir Putin is. Longtime Ambassadors Daniel Fried and…

Jüri Luik ,  Daniel Fried
LMC 2021

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