Tag: Atlantic Council

China/USA – Here’s why China has gone on the offensive against Biden (Atlantic Council)

Frederick Kempe Top US government officials are studying China’s increased diplomatic bravado and growing military assertiveness with all the intensity of elite athletes poring over...

Russia/Ukraine – Energy sanctions can prevent a new Russian offensive in Ukraine (Atlantic Council)

Ariel Cohen and David Pasmanik A major Russian military buildup on the border with Ukraine has recently sparked fears of a potentially dramatic escalation in...

Computing to win: Addressing the policy blind spot that threatens national AI ambitions (Atlantic Council)

Saurabh Mishra and Keith Strier Artificial intelligence (AI) is causing significant structural changes to global competition and economic growth. AI may generate trillions of dollars...

Iran/Saudi Arabia/UAE – Adding an Ishmael Track to the Abraham Accords: How to pursue détente between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE (Atlantic Council)

Kirsten Fontenrose The Abraham Accords between Israel and Gulf nations have taught us the important lesson that long-standing animosities can be set aside when greater...

Reading between the lines of the US intelligence community’s latest reports (Atlantic Council)

Mathew Burrows In recent days the US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has released two key reports: its Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) and the National Intelligence Council’s...

Russia/Ukraine – A pipeline deal could help end Putin’s Ukraine war (Atlantic Council)

Colin Cleary The Russian-led conflict in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region and the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany are...

Russia/Ukraine – Russian passports: Putin’s secret weapon in the war against Ukraine (Atlantic Council)

Peter Dickinson The international community has expressed growing alarm in recent weeks over a major Russian military build-up along the Ukrainian border. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russian-passports-putins-secret-weapon-in-the-war-against-ukraine/

USA/Afghanistan – Leaving Afghanistan, twenty years later (Atlantic Council)

Barry Pavel, William F. Wechsler, Irfan Nooruddin Twenty years. America’s longest war is set to finally come to an end, with President Joe Biden expected to announce on...

The future of security in space: A thirty-year US strategy (Atlantic Council)

Clementine G. Starling, Mark J. Massa, Lt Col Christopher P. Mulder, and Julia T. Siegel Space development has reached an inflection point, transitioning from...

Iran – Did the Iran nuclear talks just blow up? (Atlantic Council)

Kirsten Fontenrose, Barbara Slavin, Holly Dagres Iran’s ability to enrich uranium for potential use in nuclear weapons may have suffered a severe blow on Sunday after an...

Russia/Ukraine – What if Russia invades Ukraine (again)? Consider these options for sanctions escalation (Atlantic Council)

Brian O’Toole, Daniel Fried Vladimir Putin is again massing troops near Ukraine’s borders, Kremlin-controlled media has ramped up threats of war, and the United States and key European...

France/Libya – Beyond the war: The history of French-Libyan relations (Atlantic Council)

Farah Rasmi is a nonresident researcher at Badr University in Cairo’s Center for Global Affairs and an editor at Arab Media & Society Journal...

(GCC Countries) Family businesses in the Gulf must not be left behind (Atlantic Council)

Amjad Ahmad and Farida H. Agamy From Fortune 500 companies to local mom-and-pop stores, family businesses represent a significant global economic force. According to the...

(Latin America/Carribean) The pandemic is a chance to reshape women’s roles in Latin America and the Caribbean (Atlantic Council)

Eva Lardizábal María Gonzalez, a sixty-one-year-old Honduran woman, has been her family’s breadwinner since 1995. But when Honduras reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 11,...

(Russia/Mediterranean) Putin’s Mediterranean gambit: Endgame unclear (Atlantic Council)

Mark N. Katz For more than 250 years, Russian leaders have sought to project power and influence in the Mediterranean region. Sometimes these efforts have...

(Defense) The downsides of downsizing: Why the United States needs four hundred ICBMs (Atlantic Council)

Matthew Kroenig, Mark J. Massa, Christian Trotti The United States is at a nuclear modernization crossroads. The United States currently has plans to modernize all three legs...