Featured Publications
New Transatlantic Compact for NATO
Forging a Strategic U.S.-EU Partnership
Resetting the Transatlantic Economic Council
Council Highlights
Frederick Kempe at Davos
Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe spoke with the BBC's Nik Gowing about his experience at Davos this year, touching on the future of American power and divergent views of capitalism after the crisis.
Hagel, Scowcroft Appointed to Department of Energy Nuclear Commission
Atlantic Council Chairman Senator Chuck Hagel and International Advisory Board Chairman Brent Scowcroft were appointed by Energy Secretary Steven Chu to a new Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.
The Future of Iran
Jonathan Paris, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and adjunct fellow at the London-based Legatum Institute, co-authored an editorial in the Wall Street Journal with Nazenin Ansari entitled "The Future of Iran."
FEATURED ISSUE
NATO Steps up to the Plate
Afghanistan has eroded support for NATO in Washington. An alliance that has long enjoyed strong bipartisan support is now facing bipartisan skepticism.
A Senate hearing this fall made clear that many on Capitol Hill are asking what the value of the alliance is in the future if it cannot succeed in Afghanistan today.
Biography
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Robert A. Manning
Robert A. Manning is a Senior Advisor to 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 EVENT
Online Security Jam: Security and Defense Agenda
From February 4 through 9, Security and Defense Agenda will host its 2010 Security Jam in partnership with the Atlantic Council.
Pakistan: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism
Ikram Sehgal, Chairman of Pathfinder G4S (Pakistan’s largest private security firm), will join the South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council on Thursday, February 11, for a discussion on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism in Pakistan.
2010 Awards Dinner: Clinton, Ackermann, Abrial, Mattis
FEATURED INTERVIEW
General Stéphane Abrial on Allied Command Transformation
Sarwar Kashmeri, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's International Security Program, interviewed General Stéphane Abrial, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, for the New Atlanticist Podcast Series.
