Category: Blogs

Atlantic Council’s leadership outlines vision for the future

By David A. Wemer

“You rise and fall based on your ability to change when the environment around you changes,” said Atlantic Council’s outgoing interim chairman, retired US Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones, Jr., “If you cannot change... you [will] fail.”

US Sen. Mark Warner and Adm. Michael Rogers make the case for cyber security

By Ashish Kumar Sen

“On a percentage basis, our near peer adversaries… Russia and China, even with much smaller defense budgets, are disproportionately spending in the domains of cyber and misinformation, in particular,” said US Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA).

US Sen. Tom Cotton’s pitch for US global leadership: ‘We don’t want to play home games’

By David A. Wemer

By containing adversaries and cementing alliances, the United States can ensure that attacks on its own soil are next to impossible and can prevent devastating global wars by ensuring that aggression is stopped before it can expand.

TRADE IN ACTION December 14, 2018

By Global Business & Economics Program

A salute to our chairman

Upon his retirement in 2010, Obama said of Jones: “The American people owe the general a debt for making the nation safer.”

Q&A: Nader Uskowi on the IRGC’s ‘Temperature Rising’

By Holly Dagres

Nonresident senior fellow Nader Uskowi talks about his new book, Temperature Rising: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East. Uskowi discusses with IranSource the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) inside Iran and the Middle East, what the West is getting wrong about the elite force, and the challenges the IRGC is […]

Opposition to Nord Stream 2 gathers steam on both sides of the Atlantic

By Agnia Grigas

Although largely symbolic gestures, these actions signal growing bipartisan opposition in Washington and a hardening of Brussels’ stance toward Nord Stream 2.

Quiz: a December to remember

By Atlantic Council

With the G20 summit in the rearview mirror and a key Brexit vote delayed, you may have glossed over the start of December. We have seven questions on the most important international news this week. Were you really paying attention? Take our quiz to find out! powered by Typeform

Siemens USA CEO Advocates Using Technological Change for Good

By David A. Wemer

Barbara Humpton, chief executive officer of Siemens USA, believes that companies and manufactures “have to challenge ourselves to use these tools to positively impact people and society.”

Five takeaways from Latin America’s presidential elections in 2018

By Valentina Sader

The next four years are an opportunity for each government to implement reforms necessary for the growth and development of the region’s three largest democracies.