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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Christopher J. Makins
Christopher J. Makins was president of the Atlantic Council of the United States from September 1999 to October 2005. He also served as an adviser to corporations and nonprofit organizations in the United States and Europe.
Mr. Makins spent almost all his professional life in the practice of international relations in the government, corporate and nonprofit sectors. He served as a senior adviser to the German Marshall Fund of the United States in 1997-99 and again in 2005-06. From 1989 to 1997 he was vice president and then executive vice president of the Aspen Institute, responsible for the oversight of the Institute's Policy Programs and for the development of the Institute's international network of partner institutions and programs in Europe and Asia. Before joining the Aspen Institute, Mr. Makins, a U.S. and British dual national, served for 11 years as a member of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, working in London, Paris and Washington on European, Middle Eastern and transatlantic issues, including U.S.-European cooperation in high technology. After leaving the Diplomatic Service, Mr. Makins worked as deputy director of the Trilateral Commission (1975-6), at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. (1977-9), as a division manager and assistant vice president at Science Applications International Corporation (1979-89), and at the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies (1984-8).
From 1981 to 1994 Mr. Makins, in partnership with former deputy secretary of defense Robert Ellsworth, published a newsletter on U.S. foreign economic and defense policy and domestic politics. He served on several corporate and nonprofit boards and published widely on issues related to transatlantic relations and East-West negotiations.
Mr. Makins was born in Southampton, NY on July 23, 1942. He earned first class honors in Modern History in 1963 at New College, Oxford and was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1963.
He died from cancer on January 28, 2006, aged 63.
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.
