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One- or Two-Legged Stools Don’t Work

New Atlanticist
Jul 29, 2025

The Russia pressure menu: Options to convince Putin to negotiate on Ukraine 

As the US president cuts his deadline for Russia to ten days, there are several options for him to increase pressure on Moscow to pursue peace.

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One- or Two-Legged Stools Don’t Work

New Atlanticist
Jul 24, 2025

Dispatch from Manila: A lesson in calling out Chinese maritime aggression

By
Markus Garlauskas, Philip W. Yu

As the Philippines has focused more on Chinese threats to itself, Manila also seems increasingly inclined to see its own security as connected to that of the broader region.

China
Indo-Pacific

One- or Two-Legged Stools Don’t Work

New Atlanticist
Jul 1, 2025

The US must enforce sanctions to prevent Iran from rebuilding its nuclear program

By
Kimberly Donovan

To ensure that Tehran cannot get its hands on the financial resources it would need to rebuild its nuclear program, Iran sanctions enforcement should start with China.

Economic Sanctions
Iran

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New Atlanticist

Jan 11, 2012

One- or Two-Legged Stools Don’t Work

By Harlan Ullman

Last week at the Pentagon, with the Joint Chiefs present, President Barack Obama unveiled the nation’s newest defense strategy. To the administration’s credit, the strategy was intended to set priorities to drive budgets, not the reverse. Unfortunately, as was the case three years ago with the President’s Afghanistan-Pakistan study, the new strategy has several fundamental […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jan 11, 2012

Threats to Watch in 2012

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

On Dec. 18, 2010, a police slap of a vegetable-cum-fruit peddler in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid triggered an “Arab Spring” that no one had forecast and that quickly spawned a long, dark Arab winter. Before the end of January 2011, violent unrest had spread to Egypt. By Feb. 11, after 18 days of […]

Libya North Africa

New Atlanticist

Jan 10, 2012

Interview: We Need to Encourage Research for Development

By Jason Harmala

Infosys’ Executive Co-chairman S. Gopalakrishnan, a member of the Atlantic Council’s International Advisory Board, spoke to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra of Business Standard on the reasons behind instituting research awards and also about technologies that are expected to steer the IT industry forward.

New Atlanticist

Jan 10, 2012

Pakistan’s Memogate: Where’s the Beef?

By Harlan Ullman

The question ‘where’s the beef?’ has an almost iconic place in American culture.

Pakistan

New Atlanticist

Jan 10, 2012

Beaufort: Why We Must Leave Afghanistan Now, Not End 2014

By Julian Lindley-French

Beaufort is a great film. It tells the story of a platoon of young Israeli soldiers at the turn of this century pointlessly asked to defend an isolated, old Crusader fort deep in Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon at the very end of a failed occupation.

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Jan 9, 2012

The War on Terror is Over

By Magnus Nordenman

Historians may look back at 2011 as the year that the war on terror finally ended. Counterterrorism was not removed from America’s security policy tool box but it no longer serves as a strategic priority and no longer guides how the US structures its relations with nations around the world or thinks and plans for […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 9, 2012

Current Woes Call for Smart Reinvention Not Destruction

By Lawrence Summers

It would have been almost unimaginable five years ago that the Financial Times would convene a series of articles on “Capitalism in Crisis”. That it has done so is a reflection both of sour public opinion and distressing results on the ground in much of the industrial world.

Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Jan 9, 2012

How to Save the Global Economy: Get Better Data

By Paul Saffo

The 2008 crash was more than the start of a recession; it represented the end of what economists James Stock and Mark Watson labeled the “Great Moderation,” a two-decade period of low business cycle volatility, moderate inflation, moderate unemployment, and steady industrial production.

Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Jan 9, 2012

We Are All Europeans Now

By Alexander Mirtchev

The broadening cracks in the European economic framework now appear to be undermining the whole European structure, as if a ‘contagion’ is spreading from the Southern European economies outwards.

Economy & Business European Union

New Atlanticist

Jan 6, 2012

Erdoğan Consolidates Civilian Rule in Turkey

By Ross Wilson

The arrest January 6 of retired General İlker Basbuğ, former chief of the general staff, marks yet another turn of the wheel against the Turkish military and a sign of how little fear the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has of moves against civilian rule that have haunted his country’s past. After hours […]

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