Tag: Atlantic Council

Daily news – February 8, 2022

News from: Al Jazeera, Astana Times, Atlantic Council, Brookings, Bruegel, Chatham House, CSIS, Defense News, Defense One, East Asia Forum, Foundation for Defense of...

Daily news – February 5, 2022

AFRICA African Union: Focus on Rights, Justice at Summit. Human Rights Watch: President Macky Sall of Senegal should ensure that civilian protection, human rights, and justice...

Daily news – February 4, 2022

AFRICA Strategies for financing Africa’s health sector. Vera Songwe, Brookings:  Never before in the last half century has Africa’s health care landscape seen so many...

Daily news – February 2, 2022 a.m.

AFGHANISTAN - NONSTATE ARMED ACTORS Nonstate threats in the Taliban’s Afghanistan. Joshua T. White, Brookings: While Afghanistan’s new Taliban leadership has been preoccupied with the...

Daily news – February 1, 2022 a.m.

GEOPOLITICS & WORLDS  Sulla crisi russo-ucraina (e dintorni). George Pearkes, Atlantic Council:  The invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces appears increasingly likely. Over one hundred...

Daily news – January 28, 2022

GEOPOLITICS & WORLDS La sicurezza nell'Europa dell'Est (work in progress) e varie complessità: Pavel E. Felgenhauer per The Jamestown Foundation: Russia and NATO Locked in High-Risk...

Daily news – January 27, 2022 a.m.

GEOPOLITICS & WORLDS Sulla crisi russo-ucraina. Tracy Wilkinson per Los Angeles Times: U.S. refuses to budge on Ukraine in response to Russian demands - Politico:...

Daily news – January 26, 2022

Sulla crisi russo-ucraina. Atlantic Council: The US bets big on NATO to deter Russia - Atlantic Council: Russian Hybrid Threats Report: A push to...

How the Biden administration can assure regional partners in the wake of the Houthi attacks on the UAE (William F. Wechsler, Atlantic Council)

The recent attacks on January 18 and 24 by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen on the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) capital Abu Dhabi clearly...

Russian Hybrid Threats Report: Troops arrive in Belarus as propaganda narratives heat up (Atlantic Council)

As the crisis in Europe over Ukraine heats up, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is keeping a close eye on Russia’s movements across...

The race is on for a digital dollar (Atlantic Council)

Ready for UncleSamCoin? It’s official: The Federal Reserve’s new report on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) has opened the door for the first time to the...

What if Russia invades Ukraine (again)? Consider these options for sanctions escalation (Brian O’Toole and Daniel Fried, Atlantic Council)

Just weeks into 2022—amid Western refusal to give into Kremlin demands for a sphere of domination in Central and Eastern Europe—intensified Russian attacks on...

Pakistan’s ‘Praetorian’ state is a troubling model for a Taliban-led Afghanistan (Ben Acheson, Atlantic Council)

Humanitarian catastrophe. Frozen assets. International recognition of the Taliban. These issues dominate the current discussion about Afghanistan’s future—with a warranted sense of urgency, given...

By intervening in Kazakhstan, Russia strengthens its hand in China’s energy market (Paddy Ryan, Atlantic Council)

As a popular uprising ousted Nursultan Nazarbayev, a thirty-year strongman ruler-turned eminence gris, Kazakhstan stood on the precipice of revolution. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s decision to solicit...

How Europe can reclaim its voice in the Russia crisis (Ana Palacio, El Pais, Atlantic Council)

“There will be no peace in Europe if the States are reconstituted on the basis of national sovereignty.” This warning by Jean Monnet—the crux...

Will Russia make a military move against Ukraine? Follow these clues (Atlantic Council)

For weeks, the eyes of the world have been on a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine, as Western officials struggle to decipher Russian President...