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Council Highlights
Nawaz Offers Views on Changing Pakistani Perceptions of U.S.
Shuja Nawaz, Director of the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, was interviewed on The Takeaway morning radio news program on the Pakistan flood situation. The discussion focused on the U.S. being the single largest donor of aid, and the potential for Pakistanis to shift their perceptions of America. Nawaz insists that the U.S. should stay the course with aid to Pakistan, but warns of the long-term effects of America's goodwill, stating that "changing image takes a long time."
Nancy Walker Addresses U.S. Africa Command Conference
Dr. Nancy J. Walker, Director of the Ansari Africa Center, gave the keynote address at Africa Command’s Senior Leader Offsite Conference in Starnberg, Germany on August 26, 2010.
South Asia Center's Shikha Bhatnagar Spotlighted
Shikha Bhatnagar's recent appointment as Associate Director of the South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council, is yet another manifestation of a growing trend of second generation Indian Americans' advent into leading Washington, DC think tanks as senior policy analysts and associates.
Chuck Hagel Discusses START Ratification on RussiaToday
Atlantic Council Chairman Chuck Hagel was interviewed for RussiaToday on delays in ratification of the START treaty in both the U.S. and Russia.
FEATURED ISSUE
In August the sunny calm and quiet that is a Swedish summer will be shattered by the impact of Joint Direct Attack Munitions dropped by F-16CM Fighting Falcons from US Air Force Europe.
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.
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Ukraine Under Yanukovych: An Analytical Debate
On August 18, New Atlanticist--the Atlantic Council's policy and analysis blog--published a critique of Ukraine's leadership and progress toward democracy since 2004. Entitled "Orange Peels: Ukraine after Revolution," the essay was written by Council Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky.
Lisbon 2010 NATO Young Atlanticist Summit: Call for Applications
The Atlantic Council of the United States’ Young Atlanticist Program, in partnership with the Portuguese Atlantic Commission and the Atlantic Treaty Association/Youth Atlantic Treaty Association, will be hosting a young professionals’ event for the Lisbon Summit, and is currently soliciting applications from exceptional candidates from all NATO and Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries, as well as Mediterranean Dialogue members.
Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award Dinner
On September 23rd, international luminaries will gather at the inaugural Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award Dinner, honoring Professor Klaus Schwab, the Founder and Executive Chairman of World Economic Forum, upon the forum's 40th Anniversary.
Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum 2010
The Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum (BSEEF) is a unique annual initiative that brings business and policy leaders together to discuss Eurasia’s leading economic and energy challenges.
FEATURED INTERVIEW
Transatlantic Relations from German Perspective
In a recent installment of the New Atlanticist Podcast Series Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri interviews Irmtraud Richardson, Brussels-based correspondent for German public radio and television service ARD. Richardson discusses Germany's outlook on the EU, as well as the state of U.S.-German and U.S.-EU relations.
