Tag: Atlantic Council

Are vaccines and Afghanistan routes back to US-Iran engagement? (Barbara Slavin, Atlantic Council)

Efforts on the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly last week to catalyze a swift return to talks on the Iran nuclear...

The military, intel, and law enforcement must collaborate in this new counterterrorism era (R. Clarke Cooper, Atlantic Council)

Not only did the American withdrawal from Afghanistan end a long-term presence in a country rife with conflict, but it also rendered inaccessible an...

Germany’s ‘messy’ post-Merkel moment (Sophia Besch, Jörn Fleck, Atlantic Council)

Now comes the hard part. Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) topped outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s long-reigning Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in federal elections on...

Cyber defense across the ocean floor: The geopolitics of submarine cable security (Justin Sherman, Atlantic Council)

The vast majority of intercontinental global Internet traffic—upwards of 95 percent—travels over undersea cables that run across the ocean floor. These hundreds of cables,...

The US-EU Trade and Technology Council: Seven steps toward success (Frances Burwell, Atlantic Council)

As the first formal meeting of the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) gets underway on September 29, the key question should be: What...

What the Arab Gulf is thinking after the Afghanistan withdrawal (Kirsten Fontenrose, Atlantic Council)

Following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, three heavyweights in the Gulf are carefully navigating the aftermath—each calculating what it stands to gain (or lose)...

Make way for Wakanda: The UN Security Council needs an African seat (Rama Yade, Atlantic Council)

Pouring new wine into old wineskins will simply lead them to burst, goes the Bible verse. When it comes to the United Nations Security...

Zelenskyy slams UN inaction over Putin’s Ukraine war (Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the UN General Assembly in New York. September 22, 2021. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used his September 22 address...

Reloading Ukraine’s corporate governance reforms (Iaroslav Zhelezniak, Andriy Boytsun, Oleksandr Lysenko, Atlantic Council)

Controversial developments at energy giant Naftogaz in early 2021 have revived the debate over corporate governance reforms at Ukraine's state-owned enterprises. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich) Corporate governance...

Iran ‘won’ the war with Iraq but at a heavy price (Barbara Slavin, Abbas Kadhim, Atlantic Council)

When Iraq invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, many in the region and the wider world were not particularly sorry. One Arab diplomat at...

Mourned by some, cursed by others, former President Bouteflika left Algeria ill-prepared for the future (Andrew G. Farrand, Atlantic Council)

Shortly before midnight on September 17, news began circulating in Algeria that the country’s longest-serving former president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, had passed away. While tales of...

Syria after the fall of Kabul: A European perspective (Michel Duclos, Atlantic Council)

A certain unease has gradually set in between Washington and European capitals still concerned with the Syrian issue. There are several sources for this. Syria...

Getting from commitment to content in AI and data ethics: Justice and explainability (John Basl, Ronald Sandler, and Steven Tiell, Atlantic Council)

There is widespread awareness among researchers, companies, policy makers, and the public that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data raises challenges...

Iranian children are being punished based on their parents’ religion and beliefs (Hamed Farmand, Atlantic Council)

It was the last week of September 2020 when an Iranian-Christian-convert couple lost custody of their two-year-old adopted daughter, Lydia. The court statement mentioned that...

Evergrande’s place in China’s house of cards (Jeremy Mark, Atlantic Council)

A vehicle drives past unfinished residential buildings at Evergrande Oasis, a housing complex developed by Evergrande Group, in Luoyang, China, on September 16, 2021....

The AUKUS deal has shaken the transatlantic alliance. What should the US and its allies do now? (Christopher Skaluba, John R. Deni, Barry Pavel,...

In recent weeks, the transatlantic alliance has endured several serious stress tests. First came the largely unilateral US decision to withdraw its forces from...