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Eric F. Green

Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Eric Green is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 2023, he completed a thirty-two-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, in which he achieved the rank of minister counselor. From 2021 to 2023, he served as special assistant to Biden and senior director for Russia and Central Asia in the National Security Council, where he helped design and execute U.S. policy before and during the war in Ukraine. During his career in the Foreign Service, Green served in several leadership positions, including as the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassies in Poland and Iceland and principal officer in Adana, Turkey. He served twice in Moscow and once in Kyiv, Ukraine, and worked for five years on the Northern Ireland peace process in both Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Washington, DC. In Washington, his assignments included associate dean at the Foreign Service Institute and senior positions in the bureaus of European Affairs, International Organizations, and International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, as well as on the secretary of state’s policy planning staff. Green holds a BA from Grinnell College and an MA from Yale University.

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    The United States has an unquestionable interest in ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Equally imperative, argue Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Eric Ciaramella and Eric Green, is safeguarding Ukraine’s postwar sovereignty and security while signaling to Russia and other adversaries that attempting to change borders through force will incur a heavy cost.

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