Featured Publications
U.S.-Iran Relations: Policy Compendium
Article 5 and Strategic Reassurance
NATO Reform and Decision-Making
The U.S., NATO and the EU: Partnership in the Balance
Council Highlights
Damon Wilson Discusses NATO, Turkey and Azerbaijan
Damon Wilson, vice president and director of the Atlantic Council Program on International Security, was interviewed by Leyla Tagiyeva of Azerbaijani news site News.Az about U.S.-Turkey relations in the context of NATO and its role in the Caucasus region.
Sven Biscop and Jo Coelmont: Permanent Structured Cooperation and European Armed Forces
Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop, Director of the Security & Global Governance Programme at the Egmont Institute and member of the Atlantic Council Strategic Advisors Group, and Brig-Gen. (Ret.) Jo Coelmont, former Belgian Representative to the European Union Military Committee, co-authored an Egmont Institute Security Issue Brief entitled Permanent Structured Cooperation for Effective European Armed Forces.
Banning Garrett Discusses U.S.-China Relations
Banning Garret, director of the Council's Asia Program, was interviewed by Daniel Ryntjes of Feature Story News about U.S.-China relations after the February 18 meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama.
Shuja Nawaz on Al Jazeera English: India-Pakistan Relations
Shuja Nawaz, director of the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, spoke with Al Jazeera English's Riz Khan about the renewed India-Pakistan peace talks.
FEATURED ISSUE
Eurozone Crisis: Threat of Sovereign Debt Default
The Atlantic Council's Global Business and Economics Program hosted a conference call with Professor Leszek Balcerowicz on the Euro debt crisis.
Biography
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Sebestyén L.V. Gorka
Sebestyén L. V. Gorka was born to Hungarian parents living in forced exile in the United Kingdom. After the fall of Communism, Sebestyén moved to Hungary, where he became an internationally recognized expert on defense reform and international terrorism. Since then he has been a Kokkalis Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard; a consultant to the RAND Corporation in Washington and Adjunct Professor for Terrorism and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall Center, Germany. In 2003 Sebestyén and his wife founded the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security (ITDIS).
Sebestyén Gorka has been a Fellow of the Terrorism Research Center in Virginia and a Founding Member of the US Council for Emerging National Security Affairs. He was an ambassadorial briefer for the US Department of State and a featured speaker for The Economist, London, the US Army War College and the Joint Special Operations University, Florida.
Sebestyén Gorka is a four-time holder of State Secretary and Deputy State Secretary awards for work executed in the field of defense diplomacy, and is an alumnus of the Salzburg Seminar and the US Atlantic Council.
More recently, Mr. Gorka has been assigned to the National Defense University where he is conducting courses on terrorism.
FEATURED EVENT
U.S.-Iran Relations: Best-Case Scenario
A panel of Iran experts addressed the "best-case scenario" for U.S.-Iran relations at the Atlantic Council. Dr. Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East scholar at the Congressional Research Service, presented his Atlantic Council-commissioned Compendium of Policies, Laws and Regulations that govern U.S. relations with Iran, and the discussion followed.
General Stephane Abrial: NATO Transformation
General Stéphane Abrial of France, Commander of NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT), spoke before the Atlantic Council about ACT’s efforts to improve Alliance capabilites to meet current and future challenges as well as ACT's role in NATO’s next Strategic Concept.
2010 Awards Dinner: Clinton, Bono, Ackermann, Abrial, Mattis
FEATURED INTERVIEW
Euro Debt Crisis: A Discussion with Currency Strategist Marc Chandler
In his latest New Atlanticist Podcast, Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri addresses the Euro debt crisis and the recent hedge fund betting of over $8 billion in short positions against the common EU currency. He talks with Marc Chandler, the Chief Currency Strategist for the investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman and author of Making Sense of the Dollar.
