Experts in the News

The decision to bring troops home from Afghanistan was difficult, but “sometimes in foreign policy ... there are no good solutions,” said fellow Joe Barnes. Barnes, a former U.S. diplomat, is the Baker Institute’s Bonner Means Baker Fellow.

Fellow Joe Barnes commented on outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s engagement in efforts to reform Ukraine’s energy sector.

Fellow Joe Barnes comments in a Houston Chronicle story about a conspiracy theory involving a “covert anti-fracking campaign to foster global dependence on Russian gas.”  

Fellow Joe Barnes discusses U.S.-Russia relations in an interview with the Houston Chronicle and comments on Rex Tillerson's potential confirmation as head of the State Department: "He is an unusual, but not necessarily bad choice for secretary of state."