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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Globalization
Fiddling Whilst the West Fails: The Great Globalisation Disaster
Julian Lindley–French | August 02, 2011
“Forget these frivolous demands which strike a terror to my fading soul”. So Mephistopheles beseeches Marlowe’s Dr Faustus. With American politicians not so much debating whether or not to sell America’s soul, but for what price, the most profound of strategic questions is now apparent.
The New Foreign Policy Frontier
Anne-Marie Slaughter | July 29, 2011
A rapidly changing world requires news ways of thinking, and new tools for understanding and engaging with societies as well as governments.
The New Foreign Policy Frontier
Jorge Benitez | July 29, 2011From Anne-Marie Slaughter, the New Atlanticist: The frontier of foreign policy in the 21st century is social, developmental, digital, and global.
Swedish Elections: Lessons for Globalization
Magnus Nordenman | September 21, 2010
Over the weekend Swedish voters re-elected the center-right coalition that has governed the country for the last four years. This is historic, since it is the first time since the 1930’s that a center-right government has won two elections in a row. The Economist even proclaimed “the death of social-democratic Sweden.”
Today's Realities Need New Responses
Harlan Ullman | September 15, 2010
What an irony! Last week, the celebrations of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan; Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year; and the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, attacks fell on consecutive days -- an extraordinary proximate coincidence given how far apart Islam and Judeo-Christianity remain whether over threats to burn Korans or in the Middle East and in Afghanistan in the battle to disrupt, defeat and destroy al-Qaida.
Globalization Gone Too Far? The Dilemma Facing Women's Tennis
Scott Bleiweis | September 01, 2010
Tennis's fourth and final grand slam event of the year, the U.S. Open, gets underway this week in New York City. The diversity of the women's field is a case study in how globalization has infiltrated the world of sports, creating reality that few could have foreseen a generation ago.
Do the Rest Need the West?
Nikolas Gvosdev | July 09, 2010
Three years ago, Naazneen Barma, Ely Ratner and Steven Weber sounded a warning: the rest of the world was not necessarily looking to integrate into a Euro-Atlantic hub.
NATO Chief: 'We don’t need forces that are stuck in barracks'
Jorge Benitez | July 05, 2010
From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO: Ladies and gentlmen, Afghanistan will remain NATO’s operational priority for some time to come. But while we must do everything in our power to succeed in Afghanistan, we must also look at the broader security picture.
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.
