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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Boyko Nitzov
Dr. Boyko Nitzov was a nonresident senior fellow for the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council. He also previously served with the Council as director of programs for the Eurasia Center.
He came to the Council from the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels, where he served as the Senior Expert for Investment. At the Secretariat, Nitzov regularly provided policy analysis and guidance, including the Charter reviews of the investment climates in member countries and investment in major energy infrastructure projects. He contributed to major publications such as the Best Practices Guidelines on energy sector restructuring (including privatization) and non-petroleum based liquid fuels for the Energy Charter Treaty organization. Nitzov developed the concept for the Industry Advisory Panel of the Energy Charter and was key to setting up the Panel.
Previously, Nitzov served as the Associate Director of the Institute for Energy Economics and Policy at Sarkeys Energy Center in Oklahoma, where he developed collaborative projects with partners from Central Asia and East Europe. He contributed his expertise to important energy relationships in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions as well as to the relationship of these regions with the United States and Oklahoma.
During his early career, Nitzov was a manager at a large trading company responsible for transactions in crude oil and refined products on Black Sea and Mediterranean markets. Later, he followed a dual track of academic and consulting appointments for several years. Nitzov has held assignments with the PHARE Multicountry Energy Program of the Commission of the European Communities (CEC), subcontractors for the Synergy program of the CEC in Athens, the U.S. Energy Council, and leading energy sector companies. Nitzov is a member of the International Association for Energy Economics and has important publications in leading energy sector journals.
He received a Ph.D. from the Higher Certifying Commission in Bulgaria and a graduate degree in economics from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
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.
