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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Jeffrey Lightfoot
Jeff Lightfoot is a deputy director of the International Security Program. He is primarily responsible for developing and executing the campaign to establish the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Council. Jeff has contributed to the Council’s recent growth and transformation by assisting in the establishment and initial programming of the Council’s South Asia Center, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, and Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.
Jeff provides thought leadership on transatlantic security in his capacity as Secretariat of the Council’s Strategic Advisors Group. He has also managed important Council task force studies on US relations with Pakistan and US strategy toward Central Asia.
Jeff has written on transatlantic relations and international security for the Boston Globe, CNN.com, the Journal for Transatlantic Studies, la Revue Internationale et Strategique, and les Cahiers du RMES. He is a member of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung’s Global Atlanticists Network.
Jeff earned his Masters in European and Eurasian Studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, where he currently serves as an Admissions Ambassador. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a BA in International Studies and French and a BS from the Kelley School of Business. Jeff is a member of the External Advisory Council for the International Studies Department at Indiana University Bloomington. He developed a working level proficiency in French through his studies at Sciences Po Paris and the Rouen Business School.
Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Jeff interned at the Scowcroft Group and State Farm Insurance. He is a native of Schaumburg, Illinois.
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.
