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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
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.
Atlantic Council SAG Members Nominated for Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature
The Oxford Handbook of War, edited by Atlantic Council Strategic Advisors Group members Julian Lindley-French and Yves Boyer, has been nominated for the prestigious Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature awarded by the Royal United Services Institute.
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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Robert A. Manning
Robert A. Manning is a Senior Advisor to the Asia Program at the Atlantic Council.
He is currently Director, Long-Range Energy and Regional/Global Affairs, U.S. National Intelligence Council, Long Range Analysis Unit.
From 2001-2008, he was Senior Counselor, Energy, Technology and Science Policy, Department of State, where he advised the Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs and other senior officials on a range of issues including: energy and climate change policy; new energy technologies; development issues and the Millennium Challenge Account, science and technology issues; and North Korea and Iran nuclear issues. He also created the Global Issue Forum with India and subsequently with China. Developed policy ideas for new global architecture and Asian regional architecture.
From 1997-2001, he was Director of Asian Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He led several CFR task forces including the Korea Task Fource and The Southeast Asia Task Force among others. His publications at CFR The Asian Energy Factor (Palgrave/St. Martins 2000), China, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control; essays on nuclear weapons, numerous journal articles on international energy and Asian security issues; and roughly half a dozen book chapters in edited volumes on China, Korea, Japan and energy and energy security.
From 1989-1993, he was an Advisor for Policy and Public Diplomacy to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State. From 1988-1989, he was an Advisor to the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
He is a frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs and Survival; has a monthly column in Chosen Ilbo (Korea); and is regular contributor and commentator to many television and print media outlets.
FEATURED EVENTS
The Day After: President Saakashvili on Post-Revolutionary Societies and What Comes After the Arab Spring
On February 1, the Atlantic Council held a discussion with the Honorable Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia, at the US Institute of Peace.
Nigeria on the Edge
On January 31, the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center hosted a panel discussion, “Nigeria On The Edge”
Call for Applications: Young Atlanticist NATO Working Group and Young Leaders Summits
The Atlantic Council is accepting applicants for the 2012 Young Atlanticist NATO Working Group and Young Leaders Summits until February 6, 2012. Learn how to apply.
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FEATURED INTERVIEW
Interview: We Need to Encourage Research for Development
Infosys' Executive Co-chairman S. Gopalakrishnan, a member of the Atlantic Council's International Advisory Board, spoke to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra of Business Standard on the reasons behind instituting research awards and also about technologies that are expected to steer the IT industry forward.
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