Tag: Atlantic Council

What future for the Western Sahel? (Richard Cincotta and Stephen Smith, Atlantic Council)

The Western Sahel—a region stretching from Senegal and Mauritania to Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad, and including the twelve sharia law states of...

The G20 risks becoming a mini-UN. That’s a bad thing (Hung Tran, Atlantic Council)

The Group of Twenty (G20) nations came of age during the great financial crisis of 2008 to hash out major economic and financial regulatory...

Deterring Chinese strategic attack: Grappling with the implications of China’s strategic forces buildup (Matthew Kroenig, Atlantic Council)

The People’s Republic of China is engaged in the most significant buildup of nuclear forces in its history. What are the implications of this...

Ukraine faces energy crisis as Putin weaponizes gas and coal supplies (Aura Sabadus, Atlantic Council)

As the winter season draws closer, Ukraine faces an energy crisis on multiple fronts which could lead to political instability and deepen the country’s...

Is Lukashenka mimicking Putin’s weaponization of organized crime? (Brian Whitmore, Atlantic Council)

You can call it trolling. You can call it gaslighting. Or you can just call it the usual run-of-the-mill hypocrisy. Aleksandr Bastrykin, chairman of Russia’s...

What will the US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue look like? Here’s a preview (Allison Nour, Atlantic Council)

On November 8-9, an Egyptian delegation led by Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is expected in Washington for the latest iteration of the United States-Egypt...

Throwing gas on the fire of Iranian internet suppression (Amir Rashidi and Mani Mostofi., Atlantic Council)

Coverage of the recent cyberattack on October 26 against gas stations across Iran has generated expected outcomes, with images of long lines of cars and endless...

Ukraine’s dangerous Winter Olympic obsession (Nicholas Bell, Lukas Straumann, Atlantic Council)

In September 2021, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared his determination to host the Winter Olympics in Ukraine. This followed on from Zelenskyy’s earlier comments...

Two years of Lifeline Ukraine (Paul Niland, Atlantic Council)

Lifeline Ukraine recently marked its second anniversary. At 18:00 on 14 October 2019, the telephone number 7333 went live. Since then, Ukraine’s national suicide...

Putin’s Ukraine War: Russian MP recalls efforts to push civil war myth (Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council)

“Russia’s foreign minister accused Ukrainian leaders on Monday of trying to drag Moscow into the conflict in eastern Ukraine, following an escalation in fighting...

FinTech in MENA: How to build an ecosystem that promotes innovation and regulation (Stefanie H. Ali, Atlantic Council)

The Atlantic Council’s empowerME Initiative in partnership with ABANA is convening a virtual event series to shed light on the changing financial technology (FinTech)...

Strong Ukraine-Turkey partnership holds the key to Black Sea security (Dmytro Kuleba, Atlantic Council)

As NATO mulls over its strategy in the Black Sea region and seeks to ensure stability and security in what is an increasingly turbulent...

Europe must defend itself against Vladimir Putin’s energy weapon (Diane Francis, Atlantic Council)

Russia’s role in Europe’s current gas crisis should be a wake-up call for Europeans who prefer to downplay the threat posed by Vladimir Putin’s revisionist regime. As the...

Gas price caps would be a disaster for the Ukrainian economy (Willem Buiter, Atlantic Council)

Challenging economic times call for farsighted economic policies. Ukraine may be about to fail this important test with its proposed response to the elevated...

Saudi Arabia’s economic transformation benefits the UAE too (Omar Al-Ubaydli, Atlantic Council)

While many commentators have been keen to interpret Saudi Arabia’s attempts to transform Riyadh into the Middle East’s economic capital as a threat to the economic...

North Africa 2030: What the future holds for the region (Frederick Kempe, Giampiero Massolo, Yahia Zoubir, Abdelkader Abderrahmane, Pietro Gagliardi, Guillaume Biganzoli, Aldo Liga,...

In the last decade, several events redefined North Africa’s heterogeneous character and identity. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the...