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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Richard Burt
Ambassador Richard Burt is currently a member of the Atlantic Council's Board of Directors and Strategic Advisors Group.
Ambassador Burt earned a BA in government from Cornell University in 1969 and an MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1971. After 1971, he was asked to become a Research Fellow at the U.S. Naval War College. During this time he also served as a consultant to the House of Representatives’ Republic Wednesday group on foreign policy. Until 1977, he worked in London at the International Institute for Strategic Studies as a research associate and then Director. From 1977 to 1980, Ambassador Burt worked at the Washington bureau of The New York Times as national security correspondent.
In 1981, Burt entered the US Department of State as the Director of Politico-Military Affairs. Soon he moved to serve as the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs. From 1985-1989, Burt served as the US Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany.
From 1992 to 1995, Ambassador Burt was a partner with McKinsey & Co., a global consulting firm after he successfully negotiated the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks with the Former Soviet Union.The Honorable Richard Burt serves a Managing Director at the Kissinger McLarty Associates (KMA). In addition to this post, Burt also serves as chairman of IEP Advisors, an international consulting group, an advisor to the Carlyle Group, a private equity investment firm and as a counselor to Barbour Griffith and Rogers, a public affairs group in Washington. He also serves on the Board of Deutsche Bank’s closely-end fund group, the Alfa Bank’s Senior advisory Board (Moscow) and on the Board of International Games Technology. He is also a trustee of the UBS family of mutual funds and of EADS North America.
Ambassador Burt also serves as senior advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a member of the Aspen Institute’s Middle East Strategy Group.
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.
