Tag: Atlantic Council

(USA/Colombia) How the US can help Colombia surmount dual crises (Atlantic Council)

Larry Luxner On the eve of the two-hundredth anniversary of diplomatic ties between the United States and Colombia, there is “good momentum to strengthen the...

(Innovation/Technology) Broken trust: Lessons from Sunburst (Atlantic Council)

Trey Herr, Will Loomis, Emma Schroeder, Stewart Scott, Simon Handler, and Tianjiu Zuo The Sunburst crisis was a failure of strategy more than it was...

(USA/Germany/Austria/Europe) Biden must persuade Germany and Austria to stop the “Schroederization” of Europe (Atlantic Council)

Anders Åslund and Benjamin L. Schmitt For decades, German foreign policy toward the Soviet Union, and then the Russian Federation, has been based on the...

(USA/Europe) The pandemic and electricity transformation in the United States and the European Union: Developments in 2020 (Atlantic Council)

Robert F. Ichord, Jr. As the United States under the new Biden-Harris administration and the European Union (EU), now minus the United Kingdom, pursue pandemic...

(Turkey/Greece/USA) To manage tensions between Turkey and Greece, the US should look to history (Atlantic Council)

Grady Wilson The long-running dispute between the United States’ NATO allies—Turkey and Greece—in the Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean heated up over the past year. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/turkeysource/to-manage-tensions-between-turkey-and-greece-the-us-should-look-to-history/

(India) COVID-19 is exacerbating air quality issues to the detriment of India’s most vulnerable (Atlantic Council)

Shashank Jejurikar For the first time in decades, India’s air became clean and breathable. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/southasiasource/covid-19-is-exacerbating-air-quality-issues-to-the-detriment-of-indias-most-vulnerable/

(Russia) A rebuttal to Russia’s narrative about the West, grounded in history (Atlantic Council)

Ian Brzezinski, Daniel Fried, Alexander Vershbow Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the West is yet again engaged in an increasingly tense confrontation with...

(Ukraine) Zelenskyy aims to end Ukraine’s oligarch era (Atlantic Council)

Iuliia Mendel Less than two years ago, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected as Ukraine’s sixth president with an overwhelming mandate to transform the country. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/zelenskyy-aims-to-end-ukraines-oligarch-era/

(USA/Venezuela) New Atlantic Council poll: Insights on Venezuelan and Cuban American sentiments regarding US policy toward Venezuela (Atlantic Council)

Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Florida is home to the United States’ largest Venezuelan population, with the result that Venezuelan policy often reflects the state’s...

(USA/North Korea) It’s time to get serious about a pressure strategy to contain North Korea (Atlantic Council)

Andrea R. Mihailescu As North Korea continues to expand its nuclear stockpile and modernize their missile technology, the new Biden administration must react accordingly. An...

(USA/Ukraine) Biden and Ukraine: A strategy for the new administration (Atlantic Council)

Anders Åslund, Daniel Fried, Melinda Haring, John E. Herbst, William B. Taylor, Alexander Vershbow Since the Kremlin invaded Ukraine in 2014, the United States has...

(Transatlantic Alliance) A three-step plan for reviving the transatlantic alliance (Atlantic Council)

Edward Fishman, Mark D. Simakovsky Like all old friends, the United States and Europe have had their ups and downs. They’ve experienced periods of distance and...

(Ethiopia/Sudan) The unintended consequence of Ethiopia’s civil war might be a border war with Sudan (Atlantic Council)

Cameron Hudson Ethiopia is at war with itself—and the international community is struggling to respond. In nearly four months of fighting across Ethiopia’s Tigray region,...

(Ukraine) Ukrainian parliament finally moves to end multi-voting (Atlantic Council)

Peter Dickinson Ukraine scored a small but significant victory in the battle against political corruption on March 2 with the launch of a new voting...

(USA) How should the next National Defense Strategy balance terrorism, rogue regimes, and great-power competition? (Atlantic Council)

Matthew R. Crouch, Ronald C. Fairbanks During the Trump administration, the focus and strategy of US defense policy shifted from countering terrorism to gearing up for...

(USA/Carribean) CARICOM chairman: It’s time for a ‘reset’ in US-Caribbean relations (Atlantic Council)

Larry Luxner The world’s inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is threatening the Caribbean’s economic recovery, and climate change is quickly becoming an “existential threat” to...