May 29, 2020

The U.S. Withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty, with Steven Pifer and Anna Wieslander

By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend and Anna Wieslander

Steven Pifer and Anna Wieslander join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend on the latest episode of Brussels Sprouts to discuss the U.S. decision to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty. Pifer is a nonresident senior fellow in the Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, and the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. Wieslander is the Director for Northern Europe at the Atlantic Council.

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