Tag: Atlantic Council

(Belarus) Belarus dictator Lukashenka seeks to silence the media (Atlantic Council)

Vladislav Davidzon A Minsk court sentenced journalists Katsiaryna Andreyeva and Darya Chultsovato two years in prison on February 18 in a case that highlights the...

(USA/National Defense Strategy/Emerging Technologies) How the next National Defense Strategy can get serious about emerging technologies (Atlantic Council)

Justin Sherman, Evanna Hu In December, physicists at Hefei’s University of Science and Technology of China published a paper in Science with huge national-security implications. They claimed, as the journal Nature put...

(USA/Canada/Nuclear Energy) How a HALEU bank could work (Atlantic Council)

Stephen S. Greene Advanced nuclear power generation technologies that focus on modular construction, factory fabrication, shorter construction times, and passive safety could work in concert...

(Colombia) Colombia is pioneering a new model for integrating migrants and refugees. Will it work? (Atlantic Council)

Camila Hernandez Earlier this month, Colombian President Iván Duque announced that he will grant temporary protection status (Estatuto Temporal de Protección para Migrantes Venezolanos, or...

(India/2021 Union Budget) Recovering from COVID-19: Can India’s 2021 Union Budget rise to the challenge? (Atlantic Council)

Anand Raghuraman, Ketki Bhagwati, Atman Trivedi, Ajay Chhibber The Indian government recently announced a new budget aimed at providing a major boost to healthcare and infrastructure development. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/recovering-from-covid-19-can-indias-2021-union-budget-rise-to-the-challenge/

(USA/Greece) US-Greece relations in the Biden era: Why the road to rebuilding the transatlantic alliance runs through Athens (Atlantic Council)

George Pagoulatos and Katerina Sokou For Europe, Joe Biden’s presidency brings high hopes for reinvigorating the transatlantic partnership. For the United States, succeeding in this...

(USA/Digital Dollar) How Janet Yellen can help deliver the digital dollar (Atlantic Council)

Josh Lipsky, JP Schnapper-Casteras US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen set Twitter ablaze during her confirmation hearing when she suggested that policymakers might “curtail” cryptocurrencies. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-janet-yellen-can-help-deliver-the-digital-dollar/

(USA/Middle East) How President Biden Can Tackle the Middle East’s Biggest Problems. Nine joint recommendations from leading think tanks in the United States, United...

By Kirsten Fontenrose, Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, and Udi Dekel February 1, 2021 — As US President Joe Biden takes office and confronts the mire of interlocking crises that...

(USA/Saudi Arabia/Qatar) Why immunity for MBS should be off the table (Michael Eisner and Jack Steele, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/why-immunity-for-mbs-should-be-off-the-table/

(USA) Here’s how Trump’s parting acts have improved Biden’s shot at history (Frederick Kempe, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inflection-points/heres-how-trumps-parting-acts-have-improved-bidens-shot-at-history/

(USA) A way out of America’s divergent realities (Hung Tran, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/a-way-out-of-americas-divergent-realities/

(USA) Chris Murphy: Healing at home shouldn’t stop the United States from its democracy work abroad (Katherine Walla, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/chris-murphy-healing-at-home-shouldnt-stop-the-united-states-from-its-democracy-work-abroad/

(USA/India) The hard work ahead in improving US-India agricultural trade (Mark Linscott and Scott Sindelar, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/the-hard-work-ahead-in-improving-us-india-agricultural-trade/

(Iran Nuclear Deal) Rejoining the Iran nuclear deal: Not so easy (Brian O’Toole, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/rejoining-the-iran-nuclear-deal-not-so-easy/

(Russia/Ukraine) Putin’s war drives Ukraine towards true independence (Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-war-drives-ukraine-towards-true-independence/

(Ukraine) Ukraine raised the alarm over weaponized social media long before Trump’s twitter ban (Victor Tregubov, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-raised-the-alarm-over-weaponized-social-media-long-before-trumps-twitter-ban/