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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
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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Sarwar Kashmeri
Sarwar A. Kashmeri is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s International Security Program. He is an author, current affairs commentator, and a strategic communications advisor to international companies. He is recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as a specialist and commentator on U.S.-European relations.
Kashmeri’s latest book, NATO 2.0: Reboot or Delete? was published by Potomac Books, in March 2011. His previous book America and Europe after 9/11 and Iraq: the Great Divide was published by Potomac Books in September 2008. Both books are based on his experience as a transatlantic businessman, and on private conversations with American and European military and political leaders. Palgrave Macmillan selected Kashmeri to write the chapter on the future of the United States-European relationship for The Impact of 9/11 on Politics and War: The Day That Changed Everything? (August 2009).
Kashmeri speaks frequently before business, foreign policy, and military audiences and is a commentator on Vermont Public Radio. At the Atlantic Council he initiated and hosts the New Atlanticist Podcast Series; and is the host of Global Currents for the Foreign Policy Association. Both programs feature conversations with global leaders to explore the intersection of globalization, international business, and foreign policy.
Kashmeri earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering, and a MS in Engineering, both from Saint Louis University where he taught on the faculty. He has written numerous opinion pieces on transatlantic issues and chaired business and public policy panels. He has participated in the National Security Seminar at the United States Army War College. He is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Association; a Trustee of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation; Member of the American Precision Museum, and of the US Advisory Board of the Ditchley (U.K.) Foundations, and a member of the Vermont Council on World Affairs. He teaches an annual course on American foreign policy at Dartmouth College’s School of Continuing Education-ILEAD.
Kashmeri is at sarwar@kashmeri.com or via telephone: (US) 802.484.3411
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.
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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.
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