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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Biography
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Annette Heuser
Annette Heuser is a member of the Atlantic Council's Strategic Advisors Group and Executive Director of the Washington, DC office of the Bertelsmann Foundation, a private, non-partisan operating foundation, working to promote and strengthen transatlantic cooperation.
Before launching the Foundation's first U.S. office, Annette served in the corporate sector as Vice President of International Relations at the Guetersloh, Germany-based Bertelsmann AG, Europe's largest media company. She also established the Foundation's Brussels office and served as its director from 2000 to 2006.
From 1995 to 2000, she was Director Europe/USA at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Guetersloh. In this function, she managed its European and transatlantic projects, and developed its European networking activities.
Before joining the Bertelsmann Foundation, Annette was editor of the "Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration" ("Yearbook of European Integration"), an annual publication that covers the year's institutional and political developments concerning European integration.
Annette studied political science, law and sociology. She has published a number of articles on transatlantic relations and European affairs in Die Zeit, Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), European Voice (the sister publication of Roll Call in Capitol Hill, part of The Economist Group), among other international newspapers. She has appeared on numerous television news programs as an analyst on European Union affairs.
Annette has expertise in foreign and security policy, transatlantic relations, the European Union and immigration issues.
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.
