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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J. Peter Pham
Dr. J. Peter Pham is the Director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs at James Madison University as well as Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Political Science, and Africana Studies. He is also Senior Fellow for African Policy Studies at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
His research interests include international relations, international law, political theory, and socio-political ethics, with particular concentrations on the areas of United States foreign policy, African politics and security, terrorism and political violence, and religion and global politics.
Dr. Pham is the author of over two hundred essays and reviews on a wide variety of subjects in scholarly and opinion journals on both sides of the Atlantic and the author, editor, or translator of over a dozen books. Among his recent publications are Liberia: Portrait of a Failed State (Reed Press, 2004), Child Soldiers, Adult Interests: Global Dimensions of the Sierra Leonean Tragedy (Nova Publishers, 2005), Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in International Law (co-authored; Hart Publishing, 2007), and Africa Matters: A Strategy for Winning the New Scramble (Yale University Press, forthcoming).
Dr. Pham authors a one-of-a-kind weekly column on African security issues, “Strategic Interests,” which is distributed by the World Defense Review, and contributes to a number of online publications, including National Review Online and National Interest online. He also writes for The Tank, the military blog of National Review. Dr. Pham has appeared in various media outlets, including CBS News, CBC News, SABC News, VOA News, CNN, the Fox News Channel, MSNBC News, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report.
Dr. Pham has testified before the U.S. Congress and conducted briefings or consulted for both Congressional and Executive agencies as well as private firms. In 2005, he served as member of the International Republican Institute (IRI) delegation monitoring the national elections in Liberia. He also served on the IRI pre-election assessment (2006) and election observation (2007) delegations to Nigeria.
Dr. Pham is an Advisor of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, a member of the Editorial Review Board of Human Rights & Human Welfare, and a member of the International Board of Advisors of the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. He is also Vice President of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), chaired by Professor Bernard Lewis.
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.
