April, 2007
The German Locomotive: Can it Drive the European Economy?
The recent economic recovery in Germany may not be sustainable unless Chancellor Angela Merkel demonstrates political leadership to address structural challenges, warns a new Atlantic Council report.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia, Economics & Trade
Program: Transatlantic Relations

April, 2007
Transatlantic Leadership for a New Global Economy
The Council’s newest report “Transatlantic Leadership for a New Global Economy” is the product of a commission co-chaired by Stuart E. Eizenstat, former deputy secretary of the Treasury and Council board member, and Grant D. Aldonas, former under secretary of Commerce for international trade. The report argues that to deal with a new international economy, the United States and European Union must lead a major effort to restructure the governing institutions of that economy and seek new ways to reduce barriers to trade and investment
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Economics & Trade
Program: Transatlantic Relations

April, 2007
Law & The Lone Superpower: Rebuilding Transatlantic Consensus on International Law
by William H. Taft IV, of counsel resident in Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Washington, DC and former U.S. permanent representative to NATO and Dr. Frances G. Burwell, director of the Atlantic Council's Program on Transatlantic Relations.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia, Economics & Trade
Program: Transatlantic Relations

November, 2006
The Indispensable Partnership Launching a New NATO-EU Relationship at Riga
by Frances G. Burwell, director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations at the Atlantic Council.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia, NATO
Program: Transatlantic Relations

July 24, 2006
Angela Merkel's Moment of Truth
by Richard Burt, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany, chairman of Diligence Inc. and an executive committee member of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and Dr. Frances G. Burwell, director of the Atlantic Council's Program on Transatlantic Relations.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia, Economics & Trade
Program: Transatlantic Relations

July 15, 2006
Germany Stalled
An article by Bruce Stokes, member of an Atlantic Council delegation of economic experts to Germany, which describes Germany’s failure to pursue real reform of its stagnant economy and the implications for the United States of that failure.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Economics & Trade, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

June 22 2006
Whither the European Union?
Comments from David C. Acheson, former president of the Atlantic Council (1993-1999).
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

March 2006
Transatlantic Transformation: Building a NATO-EU Security Architecture
NATO and the European Union must prepare now to work together in combined operations if they are to be effective in addressing the security questions of the 21st century. In Transatlantic Transformation: Building a NATO-EU Security Architecture, the authors argue that both NATO and the EU must develop mechanisms, such as joint planning and force generation, that will allow them to respond to a crisis in a coordinated way. By Frances G. Burwell, David C. Gompert, Leslie S. Lebl, Jan M. Lodal, and Walter B. Slocombe.
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia
Program: Transatlantic Relations

February 2006
Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Ambitions: Building an Effective Policy Coordination Process [English version]
This report summarizes observations and recommendations by the task force’s American participants regarding the Ukrainian intergancy coordination process for Euro-Atlantic policies. By Steven Pifer with F. Stephen Larrabee, Jan Neutze, and Jeffrey Simon
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia, NATO
Program: Transatlantic Relations

December 2004
The Post 9/11 Partnership: Transatlantic Cooperation against Terrorism
David L. Aaron, Ann M. Beauchesne, Frances G. Burwell, C. Richard Nelson, K. Jack Riley, Brian Zimmer.  The report of an Atlantic Council delegation to Europe on the future of E.U.-U.S. cooperation against terrorism.
Topic(s): Terrorism, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

September 2004
Partners in Frustration: Europe, the United States and the Broader Middle East
William Drozdiak, Geoffrey Kemp, Flynt L. Leverett, Christopher J. Makins and Bruce Stokes. The report of an Atlantic Council delegation to Europe on the prospects for transatlantic cooperation in the Middle East.
Topic(s): Middle East & North Africa, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

August 16, 2004
Engaging Europe
An op-ed by Christopher Makins on the prospects for European assistance in Iraq.  The Baltimore Sun.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Middle East & North Africa
Program: Transatlantic Relations

June 28, 2004
Remarks by UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw at the Istanbul Pan-Atlantic Student Summit
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Education

June 14, 2004
Distinguished transatlantic business alliance publishes guide to embryonic stem cell research
Topic(s): Economics & Trade, Transatlantic Relations
Program: BNAC

June 2004
A Guide to the Benefits, Responsibilities and Opportunities of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Topic(s): Economics & Trade, Transatlantic Relations
Program: BNAC

June 2004
An Alliance for Future Generations
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Education

June 2004
Remarks by Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani at I-PASS
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Education

June 11, 2003
Renewing the Transatlantic Partnership: Why and How?
A statement prepared for the Subcommittee on Europe of the House International Relations Committee by Christopher J. Makins, President of the Atlantic Council of the United States.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations

May 5, 2003
Salute to the New NATO
Lord Robertson's remarks at the "Salute to the New NATO" dinner, at which he accepted the Atlantic Council's Award for Distinguished International Leadership.
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

November 2002
Risk and Reward: U.S.-EU Regulatory Cooperation on Food Safety and the Environment
David L. Aaron and C. Boyden Gray, Co-Chairmen, Frances G. Burwell, Project Director & Rapporteur.
Topic(s): Economics & Trade, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

October 10, 2002
Remarks of General Joseph Ralston ATA General Assembly
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

September 2002
Elusive Partnership: U.S. and European Policies in the Near East and the Gulf
Rita Hauser, J. Robinson West, Marc C. Ginsburg, Geoffrey Kemp, Craig Kennedy, Christopher J. Makins and James Steinberg.
Topic(s): Middle East & North Africa, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

June 21, 2002
U.S. Challenges and Choices in the Gulf: European Perspectives
From a congressional staff briefing on "U.S. Challenges and Choices in the Gulf."  Jointly sponsored by the Atlantic Council of the United States, the Middle East Institute, the Middle East Policy Council and the Stanley Foundation.
Topic(s): Middle East & North Africa, Transatlantic Relations
Program: International Security

May 14, 2002
Global Cohesion and Global Poverty: The Challenge for International Leadership
The Honorable Robert E. Rubin's remarks at the presentation of the Atlantic Council's Award for Distinguished International Leadership.
Topic(s): Global Challenges, Transatlantic Relations

March 2002
NATO Enlargement: Assessing the Candidates for Prague
Thomas S. Szayna
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

October 10, 2001
An Attack on Us All: NATO's Response to Terrorism
Listen to remarks by NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson, recorded live at the National Press Club at an event presented by the Atlantic Council.
Topic(s): Terrorism, NATO
Program: Transatlantic Relations

April 2001
Changing Terms of Trade: Managing the New Transatlantic Economy
David L. Aaron, John D. Macomber and Peter W. Smith, Co-Chairs; Donald L. Guertin, Project Director; Frances G. Burwell, Rapporteur.
Topic(s): Economics & Trade, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Energy & Environment

February 2001
NATO Enlargement: the Article 5 Angle
Lawrence S. Kaplan
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: International Security

October 31, 2000
Remarks by Ambassador Peter Tufo To the Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Treaty Association
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

September 25, 2000
Ukraine and the Euro-Atlantic Community: Agenda for Strategic Partnership
H.E. Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to the US, published exclusively on this website.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

September 2000
European Views of National Missile Defense
Stephen Cambone, Ivo Daalder, Stephen J. Hadley and Christopher J. Makins.
Topic(s): Defense, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

April 4, 2000
NATO: Why Should Americans Care?
A speech by The Rt. Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen at George Washington University Co-sponsored by the Atlantic Council of the United States and the Elliott School of International Relations.
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

March 2000
The Kosovo Crisis: The End of the Post-Cold War Era
Alexei G. Arbatov
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

October 1999
Lord Robertson Seeks to "Reinforce Success" at ATA General Assembly
Lord Robertson, Secretary-General of NATO.
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations

August 1999
NATO in 2010
Marten H. A. van Heuven
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

June 1999
Beyond Kosovo: A Regional Approach To The Balkans
Roger Kirk, Chairman; Jack M. Seymour, Jr. and John Lampe, Project Directors; Louis Sell, Rapporteur.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

March 25, 1999
Senator Joseph Biden on Kosovo and the Future of NATO
Listen to a presentation made by Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recorded live at the Atlantic Council.
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations

April, 2007
Law & The Lone Superpower: Rebuilding Transatlantic Consensus on International Law
by William H. Taft IV, of counsel resident in Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Washington, DC and former U.S. permanent representative to NATO and Dr. Frances G. Burwell, director of the Atlantic Council's Program on Transatlantic Relations.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia, Economics & Trade
Program: Transatlantic Relations

November, 2006
The Indispensable Partnership Launching a New NATO-EU Relationship at Riga
by Frances G. Burwell, director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations at the Atlantic Council.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia, NATO
Program: Transatlantic Relations

June 22 2006
Whither the European Union?
Comments from David C. Acheson, former president of the Atlantic Council (1993-1999).
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

March 2006
Transatlantic Transformation: Building a NATO-EU Security Architecture
NATO and the European Union must prepare now to work together in combined operations if they are to be effective in addressing the security questions of the 21st century. In Transatlantic Transformation: Building a NATO-EU Security Architecture, the authors argue that both NATO and the EU must develop mechanisms, such as joint planning and force generation, that will allow them to respond to a crisis in a coordinated way. By Frances G. Burwell, David C. Gompert, Leslie S. Lebl, Jan M. Lodal, and Walter B. Slocombe.
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia
Program: Transatlantic Relations

November 22, 2004
Washington wants economic reform in Europe
An op-ed piece by Bowman Cutter, Peter Rashish, and Paula Stern published in the Financial Times.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Economics & Trade
Program: Transatlantic Relations

August 20, 2004
High Stakes for Turkey and the West
An op-ed by Morton Abramowitz and Richard Burt, co-chairs of the Council’s project on Turkey.  The Washington Post.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Middle East & North Africa, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

June 2003
Managing Risk Together: U.S.-EU Regulatory Cooperation
A summary of the conclusions and recommendations of a workshop on transatlantic cooperation in regulating food safety and the environment.
Topic(s): Economics & Trade, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

December 8, 2000
Atlanticism and European Defence
Sir Michael Quinlan, Director, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Defense, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

October 1999
NATO at Fifty: Widening and Deepening
Edited by Johann Fulks, Francesca Gerken, Elisa Moskowitz and Robert Rasmussen.
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

January 2003
Transforming NATO Forces: European Perspectives
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations
Program: International Security

April, 2007
Law & The Lone Superpower: Rebuilding Transatlantic Consensus on International Law
by William H. Taft IV, of counsel resident in Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Washington, DC and former U.S. permanent representative to NATO and Dr. Frances G. Burwell, director of the Atlantic Council's Program on Transatlantic Relations.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia, Economics & Trade
Program: Transatlantic Relations

June 2003
Managing Risk Together: U.S.-EU Regulatory Cooperation
A summary of the conclusions and recommendations of a workshop on transatlantic cooperation in regulating food safety and the environment.
Topic(s): Economics & Trade, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

April 2005
The New Partnership: Building Russia-West Cooperation on Strategic Challenges
Frances G. Burwell, Rapporteur.  The report presents the conclusions of a project jointly organized by the Atlantic Council, the Aspen Institute Italia, and the Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  The project brought together U.S., Russian, and European leaders and experts on terrorism, wmd proliferation, and the greater Middle East region for three workshops to consider whether there was potential for cooperation in addressing these challenges.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

February 2005
Re-Engaging Russia: The Case for a Joint U.S.-EU Effort
Frances G. Burwell, Rapporteur.  Recommendations for crafting a joint U.S.-EU strategy towards Russia in key areas of common interests, based on a workshop discussion among U.S. and European experts on Russia.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

September 2002
The Twain Shall Meet: The Prospects for Russia-West Relations
The report of a joint working group of the Atlantic Council of the United States, the Centre for European Reform, and the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

January 7, 2000
Russia and Russian-U.S. Relations After the Duma Elections
Listen to the presentation made by Alexei Arbatov, Deputy Chairman, Committee on Defense, Russian State Duma, and Ambassador Arthur Hartman, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations

April 20, 1999
The U-Turn in U.S.-Russian Relations
Listen to the presentation made by Alexei Arbatov, Deputy Chairman, Committee on Defense, Russian State Duma, recorded live at the Atlantic Council.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations

December 1998
After the Fall: US-Russian Relations in the Next Stage of Post-Soviet History
Peter J. Stavrakis
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations

August 27, 2004
The United States Should Pursue Active, Differentiated Approach to Support Turkish Accession to the European Union
Press release announcing the Council’s report, Turkey at the Threshold: Europe’s Decision and U.S. Interests.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Middle East & North Africa, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

August 20, 2004
High Stakes for Turkey and the West
An op-ed by Morton Abramowitz and Richard Burt, co-chairs of the Council’s project on Turkey.  The Washington Post.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Middle East & North Africa, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

August 2004
Turkey on the Threshold: Europe’s Decision and U.S. Interests
The conclusions of a group of U.S. experts based on meetings with officials and policy experts in the European Union and Turkey.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Middle East & North Africa, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

October 10, 2002
The United States and Turkey: A Model of Sustained Engagement
Topic(s): Middle East & North Africa, Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia
Program: International Security

July 24, 2006
Angela Merkel's Moment of Truth
by Richard Burt, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany, chairman of Diligence Inc. and an executive committee member of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and Dr. Frances G. Burwell, director of the Atlantic Council's Program on Transatlantic Relations.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia, Economics & Trade
Program: Transatlantic Relations

August 2005
Germany and the Future of the Transatlantic Economy
A senior delegation from the Atlantic Council, led by W. Bowman Cutter and Paula Stern, visited key government, parliamentary, and private sector stakeholders in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Brussels in the spring 2005. The delegation presented the findings of the Atlantic Council report, “The Transatlantic Economy in 2020: A Partnership for the Future?” to numerous business, government, and think tank audiences. This report summarizes the delegation’s discussions. Philippa Tucker, Rapporteur; Jan Neutze, Project Support.
Topic(s): Transatlantic Relations, Europe / Eurasia, Economics & Trade
Program: Transatlantic Relations

November 2004
The Transatlantic Economy in 2020: A Partnership for the Future?
The report of an Atlantic Council working group on likely scenarios for the future of the U.S.-European economic relationship.
Topic(s): Economics & Trade, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

January 2003
Power and Weakness or Challenge and Response?
Christopher J. Makins
Topic(s): Defense, Transatlantic Relations

January 15, 2001
A cool eye on the US missile umbrella: No European government backs the plan for a robust weapon shield
Ivo Daalder, Steven Simon, and Christopher Makins, an op-ed from The Financial Times.
Topic(s): Defense, Transatlantic Relations
Program: International Security

December 8, 2000
Atlanticism and European Defence
Sir Michael Quinlan, Director, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Defense, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

October 19, 2000
Atlanticism After the Cold War: A German View
Karsten Voigt, Coordinator for German-American Cooperation, German Foreign Ministry.
Topic(s): Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations
Program: Transatlantic Relations

August 2000
Implementing the European Security and Defense Policy: A Practical Vision for Europe
General Klaus Naumann (Ret.)
Topic(s): Defense, Europe / Eurasia, Transatlantic Relations
Program: International Security

October 1999
The Development of European Self Reliance
A Speech by the French President, Jacques Chirac.
Topic(s): NATO, Transatlantic Relations