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Ian Brzezinski Senate Testimony on NATO: Chicago and Beyond
Ian Brzezinski, Atlantic Council senior fellow with the International Security Program, testified before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the upcoming NATO Summit in Chica
David Koranyi Pens Op-Ed in Hurriyet Daily News
David Koranyi, deputy director of the Council's Patriciu Eurasia Center, published a commentary piece in the Hurriyet Daily News entitled "Nabucco and the embattled Hungarian Prime Minister."
MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Features Fred Kempe and Awards Dinner
Atlantic Council President and CEO Fred Kempe appeared on msnbc's Morning Joe to discuss the recent French and Greek elections and their wider impact on Europe. The Atlantic Council's 2012 Awards Dinner was also featured in a segment on Prince Harry and his charity dedicated to helping wounded warriors.
Gerard Prunier Writes New York Times Op-Ed on Sudan and South Sudan
In “In Sudan, Give War a Chance,” an op-ed published in Saturday’s New York Times, Gérard Prunier, a senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, discusses the likelihood of war between South Sudan and Sudan as well as the growing conflict within Sudan between the Arab Islamist center and its black Muslim periphery.
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Karim Mezran Writes on Arab Spring and Constitutionalism and Islam in Libya
May 15, 2012Karim Mezran, an Atlantic Council senior fellow with the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, published an article in LIMES, an Italian journal of geopolitics entitled "The Muslim Brotherhood and the Arab Spring: towards Democracy?", and contributed a chapter on "Constitutionalism and Islam i
Pamela Tomski Authors Brief on Summit Power Group's Texas Clean Energy Project
May 14, 2012In the spring 2012 edition of Energy Focus, Energy and Environment Program senior fellow Pamela Tomski profiles Summit Power Group’s Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP). The plant, which will be a first of its kind, will integrate a gasification combined cycle and urea production plant with carbon capture, utilization, and storage technology into a commercial-scale plant.
Ansari Africa Center/Soufan Group African “IntelBrief” Series Looks at Sudanese Conflict
May 14, 2012In the third in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center deputy director Bronwyn Bruton notes that important transitional arrangements were neglected before the independence of South Sudan last year and, as a result, the new country and the one from which it seceded are now waging a belated and predictably violent effort to allocate oil revenues and territory.
Ian Brzezinski Senate Testimony on NATO: Chicago and Beyond
May 10, 2012Ian Brzezinski, Atlantic Council senior fellow with the International Security Program, testified before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the upcoming NATO Summit in Chica
David Koranyi Pens Op-Ed in Hurriyet Daily News
May 10, 2012David Koranyi, deputy director of the Council's Patriciu Eurasia Center, published a commentary piece in the Hurriyet Daily News entitled "Nabucco and the embattled Hungarian Prime Minister."
J. Peter Pham Speaks at Heritage Foundation Event on Crisis in the Sahel
May 09, 2012J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, spoke at a Heritage Foundation event, Crisis in the Sahel: Bitter Fruit of the “Arab Spring.”
MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Features Fred Kempe and Awards Dinner
May 08, 2012Atlantic Council President and CEO Fred Kempe appeared on msnbc's Morning Joe to discuss the recent French and Greek elections and their wider impact on Europe. The Atlantic Council's 2012 Awards Dinner was also featured in a segment on Prince Harry and his charity dedicated to helping wounded warriors.
Gerard Prunier Writes New York Times Op-Ed on Sudan and South Sudan
May 07, 2012In “In Sudan, Give War a Chance,” an op-ed published in Saturday’s New York Times, Gérard Prunier, a senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, discusses the likelihood of war between South Sudan and Sudan as well as the growing conflict within Sudan between the Arab Islamist center and its black Muslim periphery.
Nicholas Dungan on France 24 to Discuss French Presidential Debate
May 04, 2012Nicholas Dungan, senior fellow for the Council's Transatlantic Relations Program, appeared on France 24's Debate show to analyze Wednesday night's French presidential debate between Socialist candidate François Hollande and UMP incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
J. Peter Pham Discusses Al-Qaeda on France 5 Documentary
May 03, 2012J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was featured as an expert commentator in a France 5 television documentary on al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
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Atlantic Council/Foreign Policy Survey: The Future of NATO

Does the 63-year-old Alliance still matter today? In advance of the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, The Atlantic Council and Foreign Policy asked politicians, scholars, and other observers from both sides of the Atlantic to weigh in.
'Anchoring the Alliance' Report Launch

On May 14, the Atlantic Council launched ‘Anchoring the Alliance,’ a new report authored by R. Nicholas Burns, former US undersecretary of state, permanent representative to NATO, and current Atlantic Council board director.
Afghanistan in Transition: Power Dynamics

The Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center held a discussion about "Afghanistan in Transition: Power Dynamics" with Nick Dowling and Mariam Atash Nawabi on May 16.
Lessons from Our Cyber Past: The First Cyber Cops

The Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative invites you to "Lessons from Our Cyber Past: The First Cyber Cops,” a discussion with Steven R. Chabinsky, Shawn Henry, and Christopher M. Painter on May 16.
2012 Wroclaw Global Forum

From May 31 – June 2, the 2012 Wroclaw Global Forum will bring together important decision-makers and business leaders from the United States and Europe to discuss Central Europe’s role as a critical partner in US efforts to promote political, security and economic ties across the Atlantic.
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For over fifty years, the Atlantic Council has served as a preeminent, nonpartisan institution devoted to promoting transatlantic cooperation and international security. This May, as the NATO Summit converges on Chicago, the Atlantic Council maintains that the transatlantic alliance remains not only relevant, but vital, to today’s changing world.
FEATURED INTERVIEW
Keeping America Safe: The New Defense Strategy
DOD officials have announced their plan for a proposed $614 billion budget in Fiscal Year 13 - and planned spending reductions of $487 billion over a decade. What is the impact on the New Defense Strategy moving forward? The following is a full transcript of FedCentral's interview on these issues with Atlantic Council Board Directors General James L. Jones, Jr., and General Charles F. Wald, conducted by The Honorable Tom Davis.



















