Category: Article

Column: Plan B for an Iran Nuclear Deal?

By Barbara Slavin

There are still nearly two months to go before the deadline for an Iran nuclear agreement, but already both sides are preparing for the possibility that talks might fail. In New York last week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told a group of U.S. media executives and senior correspondents that while, “Everything is based on the […]

A second chance with India

By Nicholas Burns

Obama’s opportunity with India and its new leader When the new Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, visits the White House this week, President Obama should seize the opportunity to revive and rebuild an important relationship with a key Asian partner that has fallen on hard times in recent years. In strategic terms, there are few […]

Column: Islam, Heal Thyself

By Barbara Slavin

NEW YORK—No one doubts the ability of President Barack Obama to deliver a terrific speech. Still, the address he made Wednesday to the annual meeting of the U.N. Security Council was especially eloquent in its appeal to the Muslim world to cure itself of the diseases of extremism and intolerance that historically plagued many religions […]

Arab allies key in fight against ISIS

By Nicholas Burns

President Obama was right to order airstrikes against the ISIS home base in northern Syria Monday night. There was no alternative but to target ISIS headquarters in Raqqa and other locations where the terrorist group has built up a considerable infrastructure. The US strategy to contain ISIS and to prevent it from dismembering Iraq cannot […]

Column: Tehran Politics Constrain Nuclear Talks

By Barbara Slavin

NEW YORK – Among the arguments Iranian officials are marshalling in the nuclear negotiations that resumed this week in New York is that domestic politics severely constrain their ability to compromise. This is the best we can do, they seem to be saying: Accept our position or you will face even more hardline interlocutors in […]

Counterinsurgency in Somalia: Lessons Learned from the African Union Mission in Somalia, 2007-2013

By The Atlantic Council

Africa Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton co-authored a Joint Special Operations University monograph with Dr. Paul Williams, associate professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University, on the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The authors bring their expertise in governance, conflict mitigation, and Africa, to this analysis of Somalia’s attempts […]

Europe’s Changing Borders

By Ioan Mircea Pascu

In defiance of international law and established rules of behavior, President Vladimir Putin’s Russia illegally annexed Crimea by force last spring and is vigorously destabilizing eastern Ukraine with a combination of military and nonmilitary means now called by specialists a “hybrid war.”

International Defense-industrial Cooperation in the Post-financial Crisis Era

UK and US defense capabilities have benefitted extensively from close industrial and technological cooperation for over seventy years. As the two allies contend with the fiscal challenges of the post-financial crisis era, the time is right to consider the benefits of close cooperation and approaches to maximize cooperation for the future. International Defense-industrial Cooperation in […]