This week the Lionel Gelber Foundation at the Munk School of Global Affairs ( University of Toronto) announced that Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe’s latest book, Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth, has been shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize.

Barbara Slavin, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and member of the Iran Task Force, appeared on CBC Radio to discuss the West's response to recent announcements of Iran moving steps closer to nuclear weapon production capabilities.

J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was the lead-off speaker on a panel on February 15 on “Famine, War, and Drought in the Horn of Africa” sponsored by Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP).

On February 15, Michele Dunne testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs on Egypt’s deepening economic crisis and its implications for the democratic transition.

On February 15, Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, appeared on CNN Newsroom to discuss the crisis in Syria and the one-year anniversary of Hosni Mubarak's fall from power.

J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was a featured speaker at the meeting this evening of the Mauritania Working Group, sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was interviewed by Brian Todd of CNN’s Situation Room on the merger of the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab with al-Qaeda and the possible implications for US and European security.

Atlantic Council senior fellow Barbara Slavin appeared on TVOntario's program The Agenda with Steve Paikin for a panel discussion on the international and regional responses to the unrest in Syria.

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.

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?"