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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Norman Ray
Vice Admiral Ray is a member of the Atlantic Council's Board of Directors and Strategic Advisors Group.
Vice Admiral Norman Ray’s military service included a broad range of operational, command, and technical assignments throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He was a naval test pilot and a leader in anti-submarine warfare. He served as NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Support, responsible for NATO armaments cooperation, air defense, C3, standardization and interoperability. He reported directly to the NATO Secretary General, serving three Secretaries General, Manfred Woener, Willie Claus, and H.E. Javier Solana.
As the Assistant Secretary General, Vice Admiral Ray was Chairman of the NATOs Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD), the alliance’s senior body for armaments cooperation and defense programs. During his tenure as head of the CNAD, several major programs were advanced, including Air Ground Surveillance (AGS), Alliance Command and Control System (ACCS), NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defense, and defense cooperation with Russia, Ukraine, and other members of the Partnership for Peace. Prior to assuming the post of Assistant Secretary General, Vice Admiral Ray served as Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.
Following retirement from military service, Vice Admiral Ray was President of Raytheon International, Europe, based in Brussels, Belgium, responsible for all Raytheon business planning and development in Europe.
He is a director of the Atlantic Council of the the United States, and a former director of the Marshal Center in Garmisch, Germany.
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.
