Featured Publications
NATO's Nuclear Policy in 2010
U.S.-Iran Relations: Policy Compendium
Article 5 and Strategic Reassurance
NATO Reform and Decision-Making
The U.S., NATO and the EU: Partnership in the Balance
Council Highlights
Damon Wilson: Congressional Testimony on Post-Election Ukraine
Damon Wilson, Atlantic Council Vice President and Director, International Security Program, testified before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) on March 16.
Stephen Hadley Calls for New Phase of U.S.-China Relations
In a luncheon address at the 3rd U.S.-China Project on Crisis Avoidance & Cooperation Track 1.5 conference in Beijing, Atlantic Council Board member, former national security adviser and current senior adviser for international affairs at the United States Institute of Peace, Stephen J. Hadley, spoke about U.S.-China relations 30 years after the establishment of full diplomatic relations.
Shuja Nawaz: Congressional Testimony on Islamist Militancy in Pakistan
Shuja Nawaz, director of the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, testified before the House Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia on March 11.
Damon Wilson Discusses NATO, Turkey and Azerbaijan
Damon Wilson, vice president and director of the Atlantic Council Program on International Security, was interviewed by Leyla Tagiyeva of Azerbaijani news site News.Az about U.S.-Turkey relations in the context of NATO and its role in the Caucasus region.
FEATURED ISSUE
Eurozone Crisis: Threat of Sovereign Debt Default
The Atlantic Council's Global Business and Economics Program hosted a conference call with Professor Leszek Balcerowicz on the Euro debt crisis.
Biography
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Nicholas Siegel
Nicholas Siegel is an Assistant Director of the Transatlantic Program, as well as Research Assistant to the Atlantic Council’s president, Frederick Kempe.
Nicholas joined the Atlantic Council upon graduating from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in 2007, where he completed a Masters degree in advanced international studies. His graduate work was focused on transatlantic security and European studies, and his thesis examined the political and social ramifications of territorial partitions. Prior to working at the Atlantic Council, Nicholas worked in the history department at the Diplomatic Academy and interned at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, Austria.
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Nicholas holds a B.A. in History, English Literature, and German Literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is fluent in German and Spanish.
FEATURED EVENT
Estonian President Ilves: The Future of NATO
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves addressed the Atlantic Council on March 19 as part of the Global Leadership Series. Atlantic Council Board Director and CEO of LexisNexis, Andrew Prozes, provided introductory remarks while Frederick Kempe, President and CEO of the Atlantic, moderated the Q&A session.
James Steinberg: Foreign Policy Priorities of the Obama Administration
On March 15, Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg delivered remarks at the Atlantic Council, outlining the foreign policy approach the Obama administration has taken since taking office over a year ago.
U.S. Force Posture in Europe
On March 18, the Atlantic Council hosted a conference with senior administration officials, experts, and authoritative Europeans to assess the alternative futures for U.S. force posture in Europe. The event, generously sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton with support from L-3 Services Group, featured Dr. Janine Davidson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Plans, U.S. and European points of view in two separate panels, and Representative Jim Marshall (D-GA), Member of the House Armed Services Committee.
NATO Nuclear Policy
The Atlantic Council and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation co-hosted a panel discussion on the future of NATO Nuclear Policy, based on the recent publication of two reports from FES/SIPRI and the Atlantic Council's Strategic Advisors Group on the issue.
FEATURED INTERVIEW
Euro Debt Crisis: A Discussion with Currency Strategist Marc Chandler
In his latest New Atlanticist Podcast, Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri addresses the Euro debt crisis and the recent hedge fund betting of over $8 billion in short positions against the common EU currency. He talks with Marc Chandler, the Chief Currency Strategist for the investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman and author of Making Sense of the Dollar.
