Tag: Atlantic Council

Afghanistan/USA. Afghanistan threatens Biden’s shot at being a historic foreign-policy leader (Atlantic Council)

Frederick Kempe At the end of the worst week of US President Joe Biden’s young presidency, this is the question he must urgently answer: Of...

Afghanistan – The Taliban now controls the Afghan economy. Here’s what that means (Atlantic Council)

Alex Zerden I joined the war in Afghanistan in its seventeenth year as the Treasury Department’s financial attaché at the US embassy in Kabul, landing...

Afghanistan/USA – Vietnam’s lessons for the Afghanistan failure: Don’t count out US leadership just yet (Atlantic Council)

Daniel Fried The August 15 images of helicopters lifting fleeing diplomats from the US embassy in Kabul—like those of a similar calamity in Saigon in...

Afghanistan – Experts react: The Taliban has taken Kabul. Now what? (Atlantic Council)

Andrew L. Peek, Kirsten Fontenrose, Irfan Nooruddin, James B. Cunningham, Barry Pavel, Christopher Preble, William F. Wechsler, Evanna Hu, Daniel Fried, Nathan Sales, Arun Iyer, C. Anthony Pfaff, Jennifer A. Counter The Taliban has completed its lightning...

Afghanistan – How the Taliban did it: Inside the ‘operational art’ of its military victory (Atlantic Council)

Benjamin Jensen The Taliban are in Kabul and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has left the country. How exactly did the militant group do it? Understanding how the...

Afghanistan/USA – Don’t lose Afghanistan (Atlantic Council)

James Cunningham, Hugo Llorens, Ronald Neumann, Richard Olson, and Earl Anthony Wayne Given the Taliban’s behavior lately, US President Joe Biden’s decision to rapidly withdraw...

Tunisia – Experts react: What’s next after Tunisian president’s parliamentary freeze? (Atlantic Council)

Karim Mezran, Haykel Ben Mahfoudh, Alia Brahimi, Andrew G. Farrand, Alessia Melcangi, Emadeddin Badi, Alissa Pavia write: On July 25, Tunisian President Kais Saied took drastic measures to bring “peace” to...

Iraq – An “illiterate generation”—one of Iraq’s untold pandemic stories (Atlantic Council)

Hezha Barzani writes for Atlantic Council: The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in Iraq are devastating. With a population of over thirty-nine million, Iraq...

USA/Iraq – Is the Iraq War over… again? (Atlantic Council)

Kirsten Fontenrose, Andrew L. Peek, Abbas Kadhim write for Atlantic Council: First Afghanistan, now Iraq. Seven years after US troops returned to the country to fight...

(China) As China accelerates its efforts to widely distribute its digital currency before the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese officials are reassuring the public...

Jeremy Marks writes for Atlantic Council: As China accelerates its efforts to widely distribute its digital currency before the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese officials...

(China) Between authoritarian capitalism and economic dynamism

Frederick Kempe writes for Atlantic Council: This was a clarifying week for global investors—or for anyone concerned about authoritarian capitalism—of just how much the...

(Russia) Russia and the Internet

Justin Sherman writes for Atlantic Council: The Russian government has long exerted control over the internet in Russia, but it has more aggressively pushed...

(Vaccine Equity) The post-pandemic recovery goes through vaccine equity

Katherine Walla writes for Atlantic Council: The unequal global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is fragile, warned World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and “there’s one thing behind that...

(Global) Autocracy vs democracy

Kaush Arha writes for Atlantic Council: The competition between autocracy and democracy is the defining challenge of the twenty-first century—one that will in part...

(Iran) Critical comments on Raisi’s policies

Ebad Ebadi writes for Atlantic Council: The June 18 Iranian election, in which Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi was selected as president, had the lowest...

(Germany/Russia/Ukraine) – Germany and Russia. Is it a problem for Ukraine ?

John Lough writes for Atlantic Council: When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel on 12 July, they will find plenty of...