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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Rachel Fleishman
Rachel Fleishman is a Hong Kong-based writer and consultant. Her work in Asia has focused on enabling think tanks and foundations to refine their mission, message and operations. In 2008, she served as Recruitment Director for the Clinton Global Initiative Asia, attracting 200 top Asian chief executives and $180 million for new philanthropic programs.
Rachel has strong transatlantic credentials. As Policy Director of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham EU) from 2003-2007, she directed and executed strategies to shape EU legislation on approximately 80 issues affecting U.S. businesses in Europe. During this time, she bolstered the organization's CEO group and worked to establish AmCham EU as the most trusted source of facts and advice on transatlantic commerce.
Earlier in her career, Rachel led the Office of International Activities for the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security). In this role, she served as executive secretary for several NATO pilot studies on military environmental management and the security aspects of environmental degradation. She also planned and produced the first classified and unclassified U.S. government conferences on environment, intelligence and security.
Rachel gained business experience at Sprint, where she worked in marketing, business development and B2B account management in the U.S. and Europe.
Rachel holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, where she was an Austin Scholar, and a Master's in Public Affairs from the University of Maryland. She has been selected for several 'young leaders' programs in U.S. and transatlantic foreign policy, and is co-author of a play, Otherhood, performed in Memphis, Tennessee, in October 2008, revealing the trials and rewards of the lives of expat-trailing spouses.
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.
