--- description: Green is a former Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia in the National Security Council and a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Eric Green ## Eric Green Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Green is a former Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia in the National Security Council and a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ## Eric Green Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Apr 30, 2025 ### [How Trump is Making Peace in Ukraine Even Harder](https://time.com/7281341/how-trump-squandered-a-diplomatic-opening-in-ukraine/) Trump correctly saw there was a chance to change the course of the war, but ended up giving Putin al... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/eric-green/","name":"Eric Green"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/eric-green/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/eric-green/"},"name":"Eric Green","jobTitle":"Contributor","description":"Green is a former Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia in the National Security Council and a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.","url":"https://time.com/author/eric-green/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```