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About the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
The Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center fosters dialogue among regional leaders, as well with counterparts from key neighbors and global leaders. Combining in-depth understanding of Eurasia’s history with expertise on politics, economics and energy, the Center provides distinctive research and advice to governments and businesses worldwide. It seeks to promote an agenda of regional cooperation and integration based on shared values and common interest in a free, prosperous, and peaceful future. The Center’s collaborative approach aims to catalyze local, regional, and global strategies to address economic growth, deal more effectively with political issues, and bring about energy development and trade in ways that reinforce economic and political well-being. (emphasis added)
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/dinu-patriciu-eurasia-center/about-the-center
The Atlantic Council of the United States and Burisma Group, an independent gas producer in Ukraine, have announced a cooperative agreement. Atlantic Council will develop programs with Burisma’s support to strengthen transatlantic relations, including a focus on energy security and related issues.
The cooperative agreement will be led by the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, whose mission is to enhance transatlantic cooperation in promoting stability, democratic values, and prosperity in Eurasia, from Eastern Europe and Turkey in the West to the Caucasus, Russia, and Central Asia in the East. The Center’s Ukraine in Europe Initiative is designed to galvanize international support for an independent Ukraine within secure borders whose people will determine their own future.
The Atlantic Council’s work to date in Ukraine aims to strengthen the country’s security, preserve its territorial integrity, and advance transformational democratic, economic, and governance reforms.
Hunter Biden
Director
Appointed: April 2014
Coordinating on Ukraine: Strategy Session with USG Interagency
The Atlantic Council on August 26 gathered experts, policymakers, and US government officials as part of its ongoing "Coordinating on Ukraine: Strategy Session with USG Interagency." The off-the-record event, chaired by Council Executive Vice President Damon Wilson, covered topics such as how to deal with Russian aggression in the Ukraine context and more broadly; what diplomatic tools are being used – and how could the US use them more strategically; and whether or not the US should be supplying military assistance to Ukraine and the potential consequences of doing so.
Other Council participants included Barry Pavel, vice president and director of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security; Hon. Julie Finley, Atlantic Council Board Member; Ambassador John Herbst, director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center; John Herbst, vice president and director of the Transatlantic Relations Program; Irene Chalupa, editor of the Council's UkraineAlert; Liz Harper, managing editor; and James Rupert, editor. Evelyn Farkas, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia and Eric S. Rubin, deputy assistant secretary of state for the bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, also participated in the discussion and provided background briefings.