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?”
REGISTER
NATO Exercises
Norway: NATO Losing Self-Defense Ability
Jorge Benitez | January 13, 2012
NATO exercise tests alliance's cyber defenses
Jorge Benitez | December 15, 2011
From NATO: NATO conducted from 13 to 15 December a cyber defence exercise in order to test technical and operational Alliance cyber defence capabilities.
Video: First live fire test of NATO's missile defense system
Jorge Benitez | November 17, 2011
From NATO: Exercise Rapid Arrow, the first live fire exercise testing NATO's Missile Defence System.
NATO Secretary General attends Special Forces joint exercise in Denmark
Jorge Benitez | October 13, 2011
From NATO: NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is attending a joint Special Forces exercise, NIGHT HAWK, in Denmark on 12-14 October.
NATO conducts annual Crisis Management Exercise (CMX)
Jorge Benitez | October 12, 2011
From NATO: NATO will conduct its annual Crisis Management Exercise (CMX) between 19 and 26 October 2011.
Denmark taking over NATO's Baltic air policing
Jorge Benitez | September 02, 2011
From Allied Command Operation: The Danish air force is taking over the duty of policing the Baltic skies under the NATO air policing arrangement.
Russian submarine mates with U.S. sub rescue system in NATO Exercise
Jorge Benitez | June 14, 2011
From Allied Command Operations: Earlier this week, during exercise Bold Monarch 2011, for the first time a Russian submarine mated with a U.S. submarine rescue system
NATO and Russian fighter aircraft in joint counter-terrorism exercise
Jorge Benitez | June 01, 2011
From NATO: From 6 to 10 June 2011, NATO and Russian fighter aircraft will take part in counterterrorism exercise “Vigilant Skies 2011” - a joint demonstration of the NATO-Russia Council Cooperative Airspace Initiative (NRC CAI).
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.
Featured Video
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.
