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Michele Dunne Featured at CFR on Egypt's Presidential Election
Michele Dunne, director of the Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, participated in a Council on Foreign Relations discussion on Egypt's presidential elections with Steven A. Cook, moderated by James J. Zogby.
Ian Brzezinski Senate Testimony on NATO: Chicago and Beyond
Ian Brzezinski, Atlantic Council senior fellow with the International Security Program, testified before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the upcoming NATO Summit in Chica
David Koranyi Pens Op-Ed in Hurriyet Daily News
David Koranyi, deputy director of the Council's Patriciu Eurasia Center, published a commentary piece in the Hurriyet Daily News entitled "Nabucco and the embattled Hungarian Prime Minister."
MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Features Fred Kempe and Awards Dinner
Atlantic Council President and CEO Fred Kempe appeared on msnbc's Morning Joe to discuss the recent French and Greek elections and their wider impact on Europe. The Atlantic Council's 2012 Awards Dinner was also featured in a segment on Prince Harry and his charity dedicated to helping wounded warriors.
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After 64 years, it is time to share the baton of Nato's leadership with the European Union. What is needed is bold vision of the kind that created the alliance in 1947.NATO was 63 in April and will celebrate its birthday at today’s summit meeting in Chicago, no doubt accompanied by much debate about what purpose the alliance now serves and whether it has a future.This weekend, NATO leaders gather in Chicago to tackle an agenda dominated by Afghanistan, coping with defense budget cuts and global partnerships. These are key issues, yet alliance leaders cannot afford to ignore enlargement. The goal should be for this summit to advance, not set back, the candidacies of Macedonia, Montenegro, Georgia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.NATO’s summit in Chicago this weekend is unlikely to see much debate over the future of its controversial ‘out-of-area’ operations. Instead, prominent concerns over maintaining capabilities in an age of austerity will likely dominate the debate.
I’m glad that experts of the calibre of Nick Burns and Damon Wilson are discussing the importance of NATO in the run-up to this weekend’s summit. Their argument–that NATO matters as much now as ever, but that we all need to work to maintain it–is one the UK wholeheartedly supports.
From Brent Scowcroft, the New Atlanticist: NATO’s tradition of operating by consensus has become more complex as the Alliance has expanded its membership
From Deb Riechmann, the AP: The Taliban on Sunday urged all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France’s lead and pull their forces from the war.
From Yi Aijun and Lin Yu, Xinhua: For Jorge Benitez, a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Atlantic Council think tank, terrorism and the ongoing instability and violence in the Middle East and North Africa pose the "most serious" security challenges to the transatlantic communityFrom James Jones, the New Atlanticist: This weekend, when NATO leaders convene in Chicago, enlargement may be swept under the rug in deference to other topics of concern.From Damon Wilson, the New Atlanticist: When NATO leaders meet in Chicago this weekend, they will review the process of enlargement and the performance of candidate nations.FEATURED EVENTS
2012 Young Atlanticist Summit
The Atlantic Council will feature LIVE streaming for most of this year's 2012 Young Atlanticist Summit in Chicago.
The Atlantic Council Covers the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago
For over fifty years, the Atlantic Council has served as a preeminent, nonpartisan institution devoted to promoting transatlantic cooperation and international security. This May, as the NATO Summit converges on Chicago, the Atlantic Council maintains that the transatlantic alliance remains not only relevant, but vital, to today’s changing world.
Atlantic Council/Foreign Policy Survey: The Future of NATO
Does the 63-year-old Alliance still matter today? In advance of the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, The Atlantic Council and Foreign Policy asked politicians, scholars, and other observers from both sides of the Atlantic to weigh in.
Lessons from Our Cyber Past: The First Cyber Cops
On May 16, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative hosted the event "Lessons from Our Cyber Past: The First Cyber Cops,” a discussion with Steven R. Chabinsky, Shawn Henry, and Christopher M. Painter.
2012 Wroclaw Global Forum
From May 31 – June 2, the 2012 Wroclaw Global Forum will bring together important decision-makers and business leaders from the United States and Europe to discuss Central Europe’s role as a critical partner in US efforts to promote political, security and economic ties across the Atlantic.
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