Featured Publications
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
A US-EU Action Plan for Supporting Democratization: Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia
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.
FEATURED ISSUE
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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Ansari Africa Center
The Michael S. Ansari Africa Center was established in September 2009 with a mission to help transform US and European policy approaches to Africa by emphasizing the building of strong geopolitical partnerships with African states and strengthening economic growth and prosperity on the continent. The Center seeks to engage and inform both policymakers and the general public of the strategic importance of Africa, both globally and for American and European interests in particular, through programs and publications as well as a robust media presence. Within the context of the Atlantic Council’s work to promote constructive US leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the Atlantic community in me¬eting the international challenges, the Center will support and collaborate with the public and private sectors in forging practical solutions to challenges and opportunities in Africa.
The Ansari Center's programming for 2012 will focus on epochal changes the continent is experiencing in its geopolitical framework with the continuing political transitions in North Africa and the birth last year of the new state of South Sudan as well as on continuing challenges it faces with state collapse, conflict, piracy, and, more recently, famine in Somalia; the growing nexus between extremism and criminality in West Africa; ongoing challenges in Central and Southern Africa; and the phenomenon and impact of the increase in Islamist extremism on African polities and economies. The Center will also explore the impact of the burgeoning engagement of emerging powers in Africa, including China, India, Brazil, and Turkey, as well as study the economic dimension of peacebuilding efforts on the continent.
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Counter-Piracy Task Force: Strategic Approaches to the Piracy Challenge
February 08, 2012
On February 8, 2012, the International Security Program and the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a meeting of the Atlantic Council Maritime Piracy Task Force, chaired by Atlantic Council Board Director Franklin D. Miller. This is the third in a series of meetings looking into the challenge of piracy and possible strategic approaches.
The Splintering of Al Shabaab
Bronwyn Bruton & Peter Pham | February 02, 2012
For the better part of five years, much of Somalia's long-suffering population has been caught in a deadly stalemate between al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked militant group, and African Union peacekeepers, known as AMISOM.
Nigeria on the Edge
January 31, 2012
On January 31, the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a panel discussion, “Nigeria On The Edge”
The Congo after the Presidential ‘Election’
January 27, 2012
On January 27, 2012 the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a luncheon briefing by Angèle Makombo-Eboum, chair and former presidential candidate of the Ligue des Démocrates Congolais (LIDEC) party and spokesperson for the Forces de l’Opposition Réunies au Congo (FORECO) coalition, on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) November 2011 presidential election and the subsequent political climate in the country.
J. Peter Pham on PBS’s NewsHour to Discuss Hostage Rescue in Somalia
January 25, 2012
J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was interviewed by Jeffrey Brown on PBS’s NewsHour program about the rescue by US Navy SEALs of an American aid worker and her Danish colleague who had been held hostage since October in north central Somalia.
Bronwyn Bruton on WAMU Radio to Discuss Hostages in Somalia
January 25, 2012
Bronwyn Bruton, deputy director of the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was featured on WAMU Radio's Kojo Nnamdi Show on a segment entitled "Piracy in Somalia."
J. Peter Pham on VOA to Discuss Islamist Violence in Africa
January 23, 2012J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was interviewed on Islamist violence in Africa by Carol Castiel on this week’s edition of the Voice of America’s Encounter.
J. Peter Pham Discusses Boko Haram on India’s Zee News
January 15, 2012J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, discussed the challenge of the Nigerian militant Islamist sect Boko Haram in an exclusive interview with correspondent Kamna Arora on Zee News, India’s oldest 24-hour news channel.
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FEATURED EVENTS
The Way Forward in Europe
On February 13, the Atlantic Council's Global Business and Economics Program will host Luc Frieden, finance minister of Luxembourg, and an influential member of the European Union’s Eurogroup and Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
Libya Revisited: Coalition Building and the Future of NATO Operations
Please join the Atlantic Council for a public address and conversation with General Charles Bouchard, commander of the NATO military mission in Libya.
Pivotal Partnerships: The Prospects for International Defense Cooperation in an Age of Austerity
On Wednesday, February 15, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter will join the Atlantic Council for a public address and conversation on international defense cooperation.
Counter-Piracy Task Force: Strategic Approaches to the Piracy Challenge
On February 8, 2012, the International Security Program and the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a meeting of the Atlantic Council Maritime Piracy Task Force, chaired by Atlantic Council Board Director Franklin D. Miller. This is the third in a series of meetings looking into the challenge of piracy and possible strategic approaches.
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FEATURED INTERVIEW
Is Nigeria at a Crossroad?
In this edition of the New Atlanticist Podcast, Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri speaks to Mr. Tutu Agyare, founder and managing partner of Nubuke Investments, one of Africas’s largest asset managers.
