Atlantic Council blogs

White-Hat Hacker Fights Cyber Intrusions on NATO Systems

By NATO

From NATO:  Cyber attacks around the world are becoming more frequent, alarming and complex. Our interconnected societies depend on new technologies, which are constantly being probed for vulnerabilities to exploit.

NATO’s Next War—in Cyberspace

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Wall Street Journal

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Wall Street Journal:  In the age of the firewall, borders are open, ideas are free and war can be virtual—but its consequences just as devastating and real.

EU’s Foreign Policy of the Willing

By Vivien Pertusot

The EU’s foreign policy is in disarray after clear disagreements on the lifting of the arms embargo on Syria, many say. Is it really? This reading of events is skewed, because it assumes that every EU foreign policy action requires a consensus and an active participation of each member state. But this has seldom been the […]

Obama Announces 2014 NATO Summit on Afghanistan (Video)

By Roberta Rampton, Reuters

From Roberta Rampton, Reuters: NATO countries will hold a summit next year to discuss troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Former SACEUR Worried about Adversaries Working Together

By Thom Shanker, New York Times

From Thom Shanker, New York Times:  As he rose through the ranks of command over a 37-year career in uniform, Admiral [James] Stavridis also came to be recognized as one of the military’s most prolific authors on strategy, operations and tactics. Today, though, ask what worries him most, and he answers in a single word: […]

Influencing the World or Organizing Europe?

By Julian Lindley-French

As I was about to board a plane at Oslo Airport yesterday I found myself confronted by a dilemma. Do I read the latest Dan Brown novel, based at it is on Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth century classic “The Inferno,” or do I read the new “Towards a European Global Strategy,” Europe’s eternal infernal? Push came to […]

Top News: United States Troubled by Verdicts in Embassy Attack in Tunisia

The US embassy in Tunisia said it is “deeply troubled” that the twenty people convicted of attacking the embassy last year only received suspended sentences.

Top News: Egypt Islamist Parties Call for SCC’s Dissolution

Six Islamist-leaning political parties on Thursday condemned recent calls by Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) to grant military and police personnel the right to vote in national elections.  GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Egypt presidency’s civil society bill ‘hostile to freedom’: NGOs Forty Egyptian NGOs on Tuesday issued withering criticisms of a new draft law regulating NGO […]

Nothing is Inevitable in Politics, nor in Popular Pressure

By Amr Hamzawy

In politics, it is wrong to expect that successful popular campaigns with substantial demands will achieve results immediately. I am putting this in writing, to confirm statements I have already made in Egyptian media about the Tamarod, or ‘rebellion,’ campaign. Tamarod’s main demand is a call for early presidential elections, in response to the collapse […]

Syrian Supernova?

By Harlan Ullman

Syria is dying. A further tragedy is that there is little the outside world can do to end that war.