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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Humor
British to EU Translation
James Joyner | May 23, 2011
Variations on the above "Anglo-EU Translation Guide" have been around for a couple of years but gained new life when Alex Massie posted it. It may come in handy during President Obama's visit.
Best Front Page Ever
James Joyner | May 06, 2011
The Atlantic's Jim Fallows dubs the above the Greatest Front Page Ever.
Cartoon: Osama Hiding Where?
James Joyner | May 03, 2011
Cartoonist John Cole of the Scranton Times-Tribune offers this cartoon as commentary on yesterday's big news
Eurozone Humor
James Joyner | April 12, 2011
This one is apparently making the rounds: "A German, a Greek, an Irishman and a Portuguese go into a bar. The German pays."
via Aaron Ellis
Cartoon: We Can't Afford U.S. Institute of Peace With all the Wars
James Joyner | March 29, 2011
In the above cartoon, Politico's Matt Wuerker illustrates the fundin
Libya War Humor: A Limited Humanitarian Intervention with Gaddafi's Face
James Joyner | March 28, 2011
The above cartoon by Matt Bors encapsulates the bemused reaction I'm seeing via Twitter and elsewhere over the Obama Administration's attempts to persuade the American people that, appearances to the contrary, the United States is not at war with Libya.
World Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes
James Joyner | June 10, 2010
The Australian comedy team of John Clarke and Bryan Dawe present a hilarious and yet informative take on the Euro debt crisis.
Cartoon: Obama Rejects Churchill
James Joyner | March 17, 2009
Cartoonist Mike Lester of the Rome (Georgia - USA) News-Tribune weighs in rather late on the "Did Obama snub Gordon Brown?" and "Is the Special Relationship in Trouble?" debates that so occupied the press a couple of weeks back.
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.
