Rimland Strategies: Russia’s Strategic Perspective on the Southwestern Flank of the Black Sea

Alexander Alden is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is a national security and international affairs professional with senior experience in government service, as well as private consulting, and a record of assembling high-performance teams.
Previously Alden served as deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs. He was also director for defense policy and the founding senior director for emerging technologies at the National Security Council. He also served as special assistant for policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he worked on the 2018 NDS, 2018 NPR, and 2019 MDR.
Alden has an MA in political science from the Johns Hopkins University where he pursued doctoral research and taught courses on international security. His BA is in political science and philosophy from Southern Illinois University.

Dr. Nicholas Myers is a senior fellow at the Warsaw-based Strategy & Future think tank and is also the founder of “War vs Peace” an influential website featuring open-source analysis of Russian military affairs. He has been studying Russian policy and statecraft for over a decade and has written several reports on the operational capabilities of the Russian military.
Previously he was the research fellow for Russian affairs at the Potomac Foundation where he was the manager for a wide variety of wargames of potential conflicts in the European and Asia-Pacific regions. He also worked on US-Russia relations at the Center for the National Interest and in the office of Sen. Richard Lugar.
Myers hold a BS in foreign service from Georgetown University and an MA and PhD in war studies from Glasgow University. He is proficient in Russian.