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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Neyla Arnas
Ms. Arnas is a Rapporteur for the Atlantic Council's Strategic Advisors Group.
Ms. Neyla Arnas is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy. Ms. Arnas is a graduate of Louisiana State University and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and Bachelors’ degrees in Political Science and French. She also attended the Institute for European Studies at the University of Brussels, Belgium, the University of Rome, Italy, and the University of Liege, Belgium. She is fluent in Turkish, French, and Italian.
Most recently, Ms. Arnas was the Policy Program Director at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies. She previously served at the U.S. Department of State as a Speechwriter and Public Affairs Officer to the Director General of the Foreign Service (2000-2004) and Special Advisor in the Bureau of European Affairs (1998-2000) where she focused on European security issues.
She has received the Department’s Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards. Ms. Arnas worked in the U.S. Senate on Senator Robert C. Byrd’s appropriations staff (1996-1998). She also was a senior international program analyst at the U.S. General Accounting Office (1989-1996) where she evaluated a range of foreign assistance and defense programs for the U.S. Congress. She was a major contributor to numerous reports and testimonies to Congress.
Ms. Arnas worked in Brussels, Belgium at the European Parliament and the Turkish Permanent Delegation to the European Union (1985- 1986).
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.
Featured Video
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.
