Dr. Thomas Fingar, the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), discussed the new report "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World."  The report analyzes the global situation 15 to 20 years in the future, touching on international security, political and social trends, globalization, and other transnational issues. 

His Excellency Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister, spoke today at the Atlantic Council as part of the Council's Global Leadership Series.  He praised continuing U.S.-Polish cooperation and solidarity, noting Poland's "traditional affinity" for the U.S.

General David D. McKiernan, the Commanding  General of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan and NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Commander, spoke tonight at the Atlantic Council as part of the Commanders Series organized by the Council's Program on International Security.

The Global Intelligence Forum hosted CIA Director General Michael Hayden at the offices of the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., where he spoke to the Atlantic Council and a live C-SPAN audience on the "State of al Qaeda Today."

Before an audience of senior policy experts and young leaders from accross Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined NATO Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at a forum hosted by the German Atlantic Association and the Atlantic Treaty Association in Berlin, Monday, November 10.

The Atlantic Council's Strategic Advisors Group (SAG) hosted a conference reviewing the ability of Euro-Atlantic institutions to deal with future challenges. Policy experts and European diplomats tackled a range of issues with particular emphasis on the current configuration of NATO and the EU. Topics of discussion included reform of NATO, ambitions for the Alliance, and relations between NATO and other multinational institutions and partners such as the EU, the AU and the UN.

Under the auspices of the Council's Young Atlanticist program, Dr Ashraf Ghani led an off-the-record roundtable entitled, 'Fixing Failed States and Securing Afghanistan's Future'. Ghani, Chairman of the Institute for State Effectiveness and former Minister of Finance of Afghanistan, discussed the challenge failed states pose to the global community.

Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator and associate editor of the Financial Times, believes the West, and particularly the United States, will actually emerge as more dominant financial actors as a result of the ongoing financial crisis.  While somewhat ironic, given that U.S. excesses led to the crisis, he sees the dollar and Euro strengthening their hold on the global economy as investors seek to weather the storm.

Kurt Volker, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, and Gen James Mattis, USMC, the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, spoke with the Atlantic Council today about NATO-related international security issues. 

At an event hosted by the Atlantic Council, a panel of experts discussed the changes within the Pakistani government. The panel focussed on the evolving relationship between Pakistan's civilian and military government.