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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Senior Fellows
The Atlantic Council hosts a strong visiting fellows program that brings military and Foreign Service Officers to the Council for a year as part of their senior training. We currently host fellows from all of the branches of the U.S. military as well as the U.S. State Department. During their year here, fellows have the opportunity to participate in the full range of the Council’s activities, including public and private meetings with senior leaders of the U.S. and foreign governments, workshops and panel discussions, as well as working groups tasked with examining some of the key foreign policy issues of today. The fellows also lead on projects that are of special intellectual and professional interest to them and their sending organizations.Roma Inclusion: A Call for Central European Leadership
March 31, 2011
In the latest Atlantic Council Issue Brief, “Roma Inclusion: A Call for Central European Leadership,” Susan Ball, a State Department Senior Fellow in the International Security Program, highlights the growing urgency of the challenge to integrate Europe’s Roma populations and makes the case for Central European states to play a leadership role in Europe’s efforts to combat Roma exclusion.
Cyber Strategy: A New Term for an Age Old Issue
Anthony Calandra | February 15, 2011
Information assuredness, cyber strategy, cyber protection, and cyber warfare are among many terms and ideas currently floating in the ether to describe the desire to keep militarily sensitive information safe and secure. It may be classified information or it may be a system or network which needs to be reliable or protected from an enemy or competitor.
U.S. Force Posture in Europe: Assuring Allies in an Uncertain World
March 18, 2010
On March 18, the Atlantic Council hosted a conference with senior administration officials, experts, and authoritative Europeans to assess the alternative futures for U.S. force posture in Europe. The event, generously sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton with support from L-3 Services Group, featured Dr. Janine Davidson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Plans, U.S. and European points of view in two separate panels, and Representative Jim Marshall (D-GA), Member of the House Armed Services Committee.
Will Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Work?
December 04, 2009
A panel of military and political experts joined the Council’s South Asia Center to evaluate the implications of and global reactions to President Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy.
American Strategy Migration: Focus Must Shift from Afghanistan to Pakistan
Paul Bauman | October 16, 2009
Derek Reveron’s “In Search of Strategy” is an excellent piece on a subject that deserves more attention. It brought to mind the definition laid out Everett Dolman’s Pure Strategy: “strategy, in its simplest form, is a plan for attaining continuing advantage.”
Pirates, Ports and Partners: Maritime Security in the 21st Century
October 14, 2009
The Atlantic Council and the U.S. Naval War College jointly sponsored a conference on the challenges and opportunities for maritime security cooperation with a keynote address by Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Vice Chief of Naval Operations.
Germany's Bundestag Elections: Security and Economic Implications
September 30, 2009
On Wednesday, September 30, the Atlantic Council and the Hanns Seidel Foundation hosted a half-day conference of experts analyzing the results of Germany's September 27 federal elections.
Afghanistan's Opportunity Costs
Paul Bauman | August 31, 2009
The Afghan debate in the blogosphere is reaching new heights of late, mainly due to the recent Afghan elections and Admiral Mullen’s comments concerning the deteriorating US position vis-à-vis the Taliban. One issue that seems to be lost in this discussion is the opportunity cost of US involvement in Afghanistan.
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.
