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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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David C. Gompert
David C. Gompert is a Senior Fellow at the RAND Corporation. He is also former Senior Advisor for National Security and Defense for the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq.
Mr. Gompert served as President of RAND Europe from 2000 to 2002 and as Vice President of RAND and Director of the National Defense Research Institute from 1993 to 2000. During a leave of absence from 1997 to 1998, he was Distinguished Research Professor at the National Defense University and Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy.
From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Gompert served as Special Assistant to President George Bush and Senior Director for Europe and Eurasia on the National Security Council staff. He has held a number of positions at the State Department, including Deputy to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs (1982-83), Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs (1981-82), Deputy Director of the Bureau of Politic-Military Affairs (1977-81), and Special Assistant to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (1973-75).
Mr. Gompert worked in the private sector from 1983 to 1990, first as Vice President, Civil Sales and Programs, and Director of International Market Planning at AT&T (1983-89) and later as President of the Systems Management Group and Vice President for Strategic Planning and Corporate Development at Unisys (1989-90).
He has published on international affairs, national security policy, and information technology. His books include Nuclear Weapons and World Politics (ed.), America and Europe: A Partnership for a New Era (co-ed.), Right Makes Might: Freedom and Power in the Information Age, Mind the Gap: A Transatlantic Revolution in Military Affairs, and Shoulder to Shoulder: The Road to US-European Military Cooperability. Mr. Gompert is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Chief of Naval Operations' Executive Panel, the Foreign Policy Association, Atlantik Bruecke, the Board of Advisors of the George Marshall Center, and the Board of Advisors of the RAND Pardee Center for Long Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition.
Mr. Gompert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.
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.
