Featured Publications
Kazakhstan and the United States: Twenty Years of Ambiguous Partnership
The Five Futures of Cyber Conflict and Cooperation
US Lessons for the Eurozone Restoring Confidence through Transparency
Prospects and Challenges for Increasing India-Pakistan Trade
A US-EU Action Plan for Supporting Democratization: Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia
Council News
Damon Wilson US Senate Testimony: Ukraine at a Crossroads
On February 1, Atlantic Council executive vice president Damon Wilson testified at a hearing of the US Senate Committe on Foreign Relations on the topic: "Ukraine at a Crossroads: What's at Stake for the US and Europe?"
Michele Dunne on US-Egypt Relations for NPR's Morning Edition
Relations between the US and Egypt have taken a downturn since Egyptian authorities raided the offices of seventeen nongovernmental organizations in December - three of them US-funded. Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, spoke on NPR's Morning Edition about the situation and what it means for US aid to Egypt.
Atlantic Council SAG Members Nominated for Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature
The Oxford Handbook of War, edited by Atlantic Council Strategic Advisors Group members Julian Lindley-French and Yves Boyer, has been nominated for the prestigious Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature awarded by the Royal United Services Institute.
FEATURED ISSUE
The South Asia Center receives guidance and support from many experts throughout the world. Our senior fellows, guest-speakers, Center patrons, and visitors contribute heavily to the Center’s mission to “wage peace,” and engage the international community in the region. The Center asked our contributors the simple, but key question, “What you do expect in 2012?”
REGISTER
About the Atlantic Council
Since its founding in 1961-1962, the Council has been a preeminent, non partisan institution devoted to promoting transatlantic cooperation and international security. In its early years, distinguished American foreign policy leaders – Dean Acheson, Dean Rusk, Christian Herter, Lucius Clay, and others – developed an ambitious agenda to engage Americans with their European partners on matters of global concern. Now in its 50th year, the Atlantic Council is harnessing that history of transatlantic leadership and applying its founders’ vision to a broad spectrum of modern global challenges from violent extremism to financial instability and from NATO’s future to energy security. As we face an inflection point in history, the Atlantic Council provides an essential forum for navigating dramatic shifts in economic and political influence. The Council is home to ten programs and centers, broken down both functionally and regionally, which seamlessly work together to tackle today’s unique set of challenges.
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMS
International Security Program
Examines emerging transatlantic and global security issues, including NATO transformation, cyber statecraft, strategic foresight, missile defense, and defense industry trends. The Council is currently leading a capital campaign to transform the International Security Program into the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Transatlantic Relations Program
Works to foster consensus, cooperation, and leadership in the transatlantic arena and to boost understanding of the evolution of Europe, with a focus on the European Union and pivotal states such as Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia
Global Business & Economics Program
Convenes business and government leaders from the US and Europe to exchange ideas and design solutions to pressing global economic and financial challenges, and to advance prosperity and innovation
Energy & Environment Program
Assesses and encourages transatlantic and East-West cooperation on major global issues impacting the availability, accessibility, affordability, and sustainability of energy
Young Atlanticist Program
Brings together today’s top policymakers and tomorrow’s leaders for in-depth and open discussions, both in person and through social media, about the future of the Atlantic community
REGIONAL PROGRAMS
Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Examines the forces transforming the Middle East and develops policy recommendations for the US and Europe about how to support reform in the region
Michael S. Ansari Africa Center
Works to transform U.S. and European policy approaches to Africa by building strong geopolitical partnerships with African states to enhance security and strengthen economic growth and prosperity on the continent
Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Promotes transatlantic engagement in the countries around the Black Sea, in the Caucasus, and in Central Asia that is focused on regional political and security issues, economic cooperation and integration, and energy diversity of supply and demand among Caspian producers and European and international markets
South Asia Center
Provides a forum for countries in greater South Asia to engage with one another on sustainable stability and economic growth in our quest to “wage peace” in the region, and develop links and better understanding among them and members of the Atlantic community
Asia Program
Focuses on US-EU-Asia ties, US-China relations and long-term strategic challenges, Cross-strait relations, and Asia security
FEATURED EVENTS
The Day After: President Saakashvili on Post-Revolutionary Societies and What Comes After the Arab Spring

On February 1, the Atlantic Council held a discussion with the Honorable Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia, at the US Institute of Peace.
Nigeria on the Edge

On January 31, the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a panel discussion, “Nigeria On The Edge”
Call for Applications: Young Atlanticist NATO Working Group and Young Leaders Summits

The Atlantic Council is accepting applicants for the 2012 Young Atlanticist NATO Working Group and Young Leaders Summits until February 6, 2012. Learn how to apply.
Featured Video
FEATURED INTERVIEW
Interview: We Need to Encourage Research for Development

Infosys' Executive Co-chairman S. Gopalakrishnan, a member of the Atlantic Council's International Advisory Board, spoke to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra of Business Standard on the reasons behind instituting research awards and also about technologies that are expected to steer the IT industry forward.

















