Successful summits tend to be more about symbolism than substance.  South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s summit with US President Barack Obama certainly had its share of symbolism: the first foreign trip of the ROK’s new first woman President, 60^th anniversary of the US-ROK alliance, and US-ROK messages to North Korea, to Japan and China.

On Friday, May 10, 2013 the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight initiative (SFI), of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, in partnership with Singularity University, hosted a discussion with Mr.

Please join the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s Strategic Foresight Initiative, in partnership with Singularity University, for a special presentation on Friday, May 10 from two leading thinkers in the t

The debate about European defense tends to focus on the need to spend more and deploy more. One deceptively simple question is usually ignored: why? Americans seem to assume that more European capabilities will be deployed where it is convenient for the United States. Europeans just seek to avoid the difficult debate that it would provoke – until now.

France’s new White Book on defense and national security offers no radical thinking on the future posture and structure of France’s military and national security establishment, maintaining previous strategic ambitions and positions   even in the face of a faltering economy. This is both good news and bad news for Washington and other major French allies.

On May 7, the Atlantic Council hosted an off-the-record roundtable discussion with senior experts on NATO and the South Caucasus. The event was organized jointly with Policy Forum Armenia, a virtual think tank with interest in Armenia’s development and national security.

Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel joins WNYC’s “The Takeaway” to discuss escalation of the crisis in Syria and options for international intervention.

Barry Pavel, director of the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, had the New York Times' "Quotation of the Day for Sunday, May 5, 2013"  — “I’m worried about the broader damage to U.S. credibility if we make a statement and then come back with lawyerly language to get around it.”

On Sunday, more than thirteen million will vote in what is likely to be the closest election in the history of Malaysia.

What was President Obama thinking in August 2012 when he declared that Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons in Syria would alter his calculus and cross a red line, triggering U.S. intervention?