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Foreign Policy Priorities for the Next President (Slaughter)

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Sep 4, 2025

Dispatches from Damascus: The state of Syria’s postwar transition nine months after Assad’s fall

On a recent trip to the Syrian capital, Atlantic Council experts took note of how far the country has come since the Assad regime’s fall and what still needs to happen to secure peace and prosperity.

New Atlanticist
Aug 29, 2025

Twenty questions (and expert answers) about the negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine

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Atlantic Council experts

August saw a flurry of diplomatic activity to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As September nears, Atlantic Council experts share their insights on what to expect next.

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Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

New Atlanticist
Aug 28, 2025

Germany wants to double its defense spending. Where should the money go?

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Atlantic Council experts

After decades of Berlin underinvesting in its defense, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has plans to transform the Bundeswehr into Europe’s strongest military.

Defense Policy
Europe & Eurasia

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Nov 5, 2008

Foreign Policy Priorities for the Next President (Slaughter)

By Anne-Marie Slaughter

Editor’s note: We polled several friends of the Atlantic Council last week on the question What are the top foreign policy priorities for the next president? We’ll be running their responses all week. 1. Addressing the global financial crisis; he should appoint his economic team immediately and figure out a strategy for both injecting stability […]

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Nov 5, 2008

Asian Integration into the Global Financial Leadership

By Hugh De Santis

As almost everyone now agrees, recovery from what promises to be a protracted global recession will require a multilateral effort. In an increasingly interconnected world, the politics of mutualism, as I have written elsewhere, will force developed as well as emerging countries to rely on each other.

New Atlanticist

Nov 4, 2008

Britain Must Lead from the Front in Europe

By Neil Leslie

The European Union has already come too far with the project of closer integration to stop now. At least that was the view of former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, speaking at a conference in London last month. He went on to suggest that further European integration should not be constrained by politically reticent member […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Nov 3, 2008

How the New York Times Sees the World

By James Joyner

The above illustration depicts the number of articles devoted by the New York Times to a given country since 2000, compiled by the gang at Gene Expression.

Foreign Policy Priorities for the Next President

New Atlanticist

Nov 3, 2008

Foreign Policy Priorities for the Next President

By James Joyner

While the public opinion polls have told us for weeks that Barack Obama is likely to win the longest presidential contest in American history, the voters will finally decide once and for all tomorrow.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Oct 31, 2008

NATO Must Recognize Russia’s New Role

By David Capezza

Following its actions in Georgia, which gained the attention of many observers in the West, Russia has continued efforts to assert its influence in the region by, most recently, exploring possible solutions to the frozen conflict between Moldova and the separatist region of Trans-Dniester.

NATO Russia

New Atlanticist

Oct 31, 2008

Russia May Leave Europe Out in the Cold

By Christopher Harness

The landmark pipeline deal recently signed between Russia and China connecting the Siberian oil fields with Daqing should send cold chills up Europeans’ spines. It may very well mean they will be literally cold in the foreseeable future.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Oct 30, 2008

Don’t Know Much About Foreign Policy

By James Joyner

Cernig, a pseudonymous “forty-something ex-pat Scotsman living in the USA” whose “abiding interest is foreign policy — or to be precise the domestic policy that America inflicts on foreigners,” jumps off from Bob Manning’s recent reflection on a post-American world to lament the general lack of interest of Americans in world affairs.

New Atlanticist

Oct 30, 2008

American Elections and UK Relations

By James Joyner

Sir Christopher Meyer, British ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2003, takes to the pages of the Telegraph to answer the question “Which President would be best for Britain?”

United Kingdom

New Atlanticist

Oct 29, 2008

Financial Crisis: What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Stronger?

By James Joyner

Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, told an Atlantic Council audience earlier today that the global financial crisis has “re-emphasized the centrality of the U.S. dollar as a currency” and demonstrated once again that “when things go really badly lots of people want go to the U.S. even if U.S. is […]

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