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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
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Council News
Jonathan Paris Discusses Syrian Crisis with France 24
Jonathan Paris, nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, appeared on France 24 to discuss Russia's support for the Assad regime and what it means for a possible UN resolution against Syria.
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.
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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?”
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Freedom's Challenge Editor's Introduction
Frederick Kempe | November 02, 2009
A special abridged edition of Freedom’s Challenge is being released in conjunction with an important new initiative, the Atlantic Council Freedom Awards, which salute, acknowledge and honor women, men, organizations and peoples who nurture, defend and advance the cause of freedom around the globe.
We are delighted that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has chosen this event to provide her own view of freedom’s future in a 21st-century global context. You’ll also find in these pages insights from some of the finest security thinkers of our times, including former Atlantic Council Chairman James L. Jones, current Chairman Senator Chuck Hagel and our International Advisory Board Chair Brent Scowcroft.
For it was this Alliance which helped contain threats to European liberty and ultimately created the conditions in which 200 million Europeans gained the freedoms that had been deprived them, leading to Germany being reunited as a free and democratic country that is respected around the world.
And during the Cold War, it was the Berlin Wall that symbolized for the entire world the tyranny which collapsed with that structure in 1989, brought down not only by the Communist system’s corrosion but more importantly by the bravery and fortitude of groups across Eastern Europe who were rallied by irrepressible ideas and courageous individuals.
We salute the award winners and what they represent, recalling not only what ended the Cold War, but also reminding us what sort of character it will take to preserve and expand freedom and democracy into the future.
Fred Kempe is president and CEO of the Atlantic Council.
Editors' note: Over the next two weeks, we will be publishing select essays and interviews from Freedom's Challenge, an Atlantic Council publication commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
