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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
Director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
Svante E Cornell is Director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
Svante E Cornell is Director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and a co-founder of the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm, as well as a Policy Advisor to JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy.