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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?”
REGISTER
International Criminal Court
Some NATO ambassadors considering internal legal review of air strikes in Libya
Jorge Benitez | November 12, 2011
From Slobodan Lekic, the AP: Members of NATO's governing body are discussing informally whether to direct alliance staff members to perform an internal legal review of its Libya operations
NATO to be investigated by ICC for war crimes in Libya
Jorge Benitez | November 03, 2011
From Damien McElroy, the Telegeraph: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the court’s chief prosecutor, told the United Nations yesterday that Nato troops would be investigated alongside rebel soldiers and regime forces for alleged breaches of the laws of war during the battle to overthrow Col Muammar Gaddafi.
NATO feels the pressure from Libya campaign
Jorge Benitez | July 05, 2011
From Paul Richert, the Los Angeles Times: With victory still elusive after 15 weeks of bombing, Western allies arrayed against Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi are racing to crack his regime before their own coalition fractures.
Hague Court issues warrant for Gaddafi for war crimes
Jorge Benitez | June 27, 2011
From Marlise Simons, the New York Times: The International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants on Monday for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and his chief of intelligence, Abdullah al-Sanoussi
USA and the ICC: An Unfinished Debate
Robert Bracknell | May 26, 2011
I recently returned from a week in Iraq, where I trained an elite security force unit on human rights and the law of combat operations. Discussions regarding the responsibility of commanders for the acts of their forces migrated to the issue of the United Nations' International Criminal Court.
International prosecutors seek arrest warrant for Moammar Gaddafi
Jorge Benitez | May 16, 2011
From Michael Birnbaum, the Washington Post: Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court requested arrest warrants Monday for Moammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi
The United States watches as Moammar Gaddafi gains
Jorge Benitez | March 16, 2011
From the Editors of the Washington Post: Two weeks ago, when Mr. Obama flatly decreed the end of the Gaddafi era - "So let me just be very unambiguous about this," Mr. Obama said then.
Beyond Closing Guantanamo: Rebuilding a Transatlantic Partnership in International Law
March 09, 2009
In one of his first acts as president, Barack Obama signed an executive order closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp within a year. According to a new paper published by the Atlantic Council, Beyond Closing Guantanamo, this is a step in the right direction, but the new U.S. administration should undertake several additional measures aimed at restoring the United States as a leader in the international legal system.
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.
