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Is America Losing Its Edge? This New Report on Innovation Warns It Might Be

New Atlanticist
Mar 6, 2025

How European leaders are responding to Trump’s approach to Ukraine and Europe

From London and Berlin to Paris and Brussels, European leaders have taken several notable steps this week on security. This follows the blow-up between the Ukrainian and US presidents on February 28.

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Is America Losing Its Edge? This New Report on Innovation Warns It Might Be

New Atlanticist
Feb 26, 2025

Why the US should not lift sanctions against Russia

By
Charles Lichfield

Sanctions are having an unmistakable effect, albeit below the inflated expectations of many in the West in early 2022. Lifting them now would be a mistake.

Conflict
Economic Sanctions

Is America Losing Its Edge? This New Report on Innovation Warns It Might Be

New Atlanticist
Mar 5, 2025

The Egyptian plan for postwar Gaza is a good starting point—but it needs changes

By
Thomas S. Warrick

While many obstacles remain, the Egyptian proposal could form the starting point for negotiations over a workable plan for postwar Gaza.

Conflict
Crisis Management

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New Atlanticist

Jun 26, 2018

Is America Losing Its Edge? This New Report on Innovation Warns It Might Be

By David Wemer

The new international race towards innovation is critical, because “a cluster of new technologies, namely AI, robotics, green energy, biotechnology, and others will do more than just transform science – they will also determine how we all live and function in the not so far off future,” according to Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 26, 2018

Senator Cory Gardner: The United States Must Maintain Its Innovation Advantage

By David Wemer

United States Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) implored policymakers to take the steps necessary to protect and grow the United States’ global leadership in innovation during a keynote speech at the Atlantic Council on June 26.

New Atlanticist

Jun 26, 2018

Europe Beyond Trump

By Frederick Kempe

Seventy years ago this week, the Soviet Union blockaded access to West Berlin in an effort to score an early win in the first major crisis of the Cold War. What the Kremlin hadn’t expected was an unbending United States, which, with its UK allies, launched the Berlin Airlift, or “Operation Vittles.”

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Jun 23, 2018

A warning from Madeleine Albright: Beware of “peddlers of hate”

By Larry Luxner

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright accepts the Atlantic Council’s 2018 Freedom Award.

Germany

2018 Elections in Latin America

Jun 19, 2018

Colombia “Turns The Page” With Presidential Election

By David Wemer

Alina Dieste, Tomás González, and Juan Carlos López all hailed the election of Iván Duque as the next President of Colombia as a historic success for Colombian democracy. Duque, of the right-leaning Democratic Center party, beat left-leaning candidate Gustavo Petro, fifty-four percent to forty-two percent. The June 17th election was the second round of the […]

Colombia Latin America

New Atlanticist

Jun 19, 2018

The United States Needs Its Allies, Mattis Tells Naval War College Graduates

By David Wemer

United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis passionately defended the necessity of international partnership in a June 15th speech at the commencement ceremony of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.

New Atlanticist

Jun 18, 2018

Here’s Why Georgia Must Be on the Agenda of a Trump-Putin Summit

By George Tsereteli

As the ten-year anniversary of the 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia approaches, there will be a brief spike in policy suggestions and attention paid to the small Caucasian nation. The reality, unfortunately, is that the five-day war in August 2008 is now mostly cited in the context of being the event that took place prior […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Jun 18, 2018

Yemen’s Never-Ending War

By Borzou Daragahi

The assault by the United Arab Emirates’ forces and their local allies in a Saudi-led coalition on the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah that began last week and remains underway rightly raised concerns once again about the potential humanitarian consequences of Yemen’s ongoing war. Hudaydah is one of the impoverished country’s most important ports, the […]

Saudi Arabia The Gulf

New Atlanticist

Jun 18, 2018

The DETER Act Will Not Deter Russia. It Will Instead Hurt US, EU Economies

By Daniel Fried and Brian O'Toole

With hints that the DETER Act [the Defending Elections from Threats by Establishing Redlines Act of 2018] may be under some consideration in the National Defense Authorization Act process going on in Congress, we would like to highlight our analysis from earlier this year for consideration by any involved in the negotiations and potentially affected […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 18, 2018

Framing a Trump-Putin Meeting: A Short Guide to US-Russia Summits Past

By Daniel Fried

As we contemplate the promise and peril of the July 16 meeting between US President Donald J. Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, past US-Russia summits can provide a guide to what can go right and what can go very, very wrong when American and Russian leaders meet.

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