{"642481":{"#nid":"642481","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Black Sea: How America can avoid a great-power conflict","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/philip-breedlove\u0022\u003EGeneral Phil Breedlove\u003C\/a\u003E, USAF (ret.), a distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has co-authored, \u0026ldquo;The Black Sea: How America can avoid a great-power conflict,\u0026rdquo; in the \u003Cem\u003ENational Interest\u003C\/em\u003E. The article written with Michael O\u0026rsquo;Hanlon, a senior fellow and director of Research of the Foreign Policy Program at The Brookings Institute, is about how the U.S. can effectively compete in the Black Sea against Chinese and Russian influence during this period of peace.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFind an excerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENone of this is to say that America needs to prepare for war against\u0026nbsp;China, or Russia for that matter, in the Black Sea region. The Black Sea is far from the Chinese coasts; the\u0026nbsp;main\u0026nbsp;military\u0026nbsp;concerns\u0026nbsp;are with China in the western Pacific region. Moreover, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen.\u0026nbsp;Mark Milley, told a group of people at the Brookings Institution on Dec. 2, America is in a period of great-power competition but it is\u0026nbsp;not in a period of conflict\u003Cem\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand the\u0026nbsp;goal should be to keep things\u0026nbsp;that way while competing effectively against\u0026nbsp;Russian and Chinese influence.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/buzz\/black-sea-how-america-can-avoid-great-power-conflict-174513\u0022\u003ERead the article on \u003Cem\u003ENational Interest\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34435","created_gmt":"2021-01-04 20:24:29","changed_gmt":"2021-01-04 20:31:17","author":"jpalacios9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"plate tectonics","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/buzz\/black-sea-how-america-can-avoid-great-power-conflict-174513","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588747":{"id":"588747","type":"image","title":"General Phil Breedlove","body":null,"created":"1489517170","gmt_created":"2017-03-14 18:46:10","changed":"1536674954","gmt_changed":"2018-09-11 14:09:14","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224374","name":"Unknown.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Unknown.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Unknown.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":12769,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Unknown.jpg?itok=CD1i4YzY"}}},"media_ids":["588747"],"groups":[{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"186570","name":"Black Sea"},{"id":"1650","name":"Russia"},{"id":"802","name":"China"},{"id":"3906","name":"foreign policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}