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Jul 17, 2015

Can the IAEA Effectively Verify an Agreement Between Iran and the P5+1?

By Nazia Khan

Following a historic nuclear agreement reached between Iran and six world powers on Tuesday, the key issue facing the US Congress—tasked with approving the agreement—is verification. The deal, as administration officials have reiterated, is not based on trust but on permanent, intrusive verification measures to ensure Iran implements all provisions the agreement.   Speaking at […]

Iran

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Jul 16, 2015

Cuba’s Economic Reintegration: Is the Time Now?

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Since the breakdown of US-Cuban relations in the early 1960s, Cuba has experienced a self- and externally-imposed isolation from US-led global financial markets. While the socialist Cuban economy was able to sustain itself on foreign assistance from the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the economic hardships of the post-Soviet period have necessitated dramatic reforms […]

Cuba

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Jul 15, 2015

The Iran Deal: What’s Next?

By Atlantic Council

On Wednesday, July 15 at 11:30 a.m. EST, Matthew Kroenig, Brent Scowcoft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow, and Barbara Slavin, South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow, had a conversation on the implications of this deal over a conference call. Francis J. Ricciardone, Director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, served as the moderator.

Iran

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Jul 15, 2015

What’s Religion Got to Do with It?

By Rafik Hariri Center

On June 9, 2015, the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center hosted What’s Religion Got to Do with It?, a Middle East Strategy Task Force (MEST) event featuring Co-Chairs Madeleine K. Albright and Stephen J. Hadley with a panel discussion on the role of religion in the region’s conflicts.

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Jul 14, 2015

Ahead of Obama’s Africa Trip, the DC Launch of The Next Africa

By Africa Center

On Tuesday, July 14, the Africa Center hosted the official Washington, DC launch of a new book, The Next Africa: An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse, by Africa Center Senior Fellow Aubrey Hruby and coauthor Jake Bright.

Art of Future Warfare

Jul 8, 2015

How Will World War III be Fought?

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On Tuesday, July 7, the Atlantic Council hosted a panel continuing the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s series, Art of Future Warfare. The panel entitled “How to Write and Fight World War III” surrounded the newly released book Ghost Fleet and its implications in predicting a future great war. The panelists include coauthors Peter […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

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Jul 8, 2015

The United Nations Moving Forward

The Atlantic Council, in partnership with the Government of Sweden for the Transatlantic Partnership for the Global Future project, hosted a private roundtable discussion on July 8, 2015, that considered how reform measures could help assuage the various challenges facing the United Nations (UN) today and in the future. The discussion centered around two topics, […]

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

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Jul 8, 2015

Atlantic Council Co-Sponsors Conference on Extraterritoriality in Financial Regulation

By Chris Lyon

On June 26, the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Finance Initiative co-sponsored a conference concerning the extraterritoriality organized by Oxford University Press’s Journal of Financial Regulation at Georgetown Law. Regulators, diplomats, lawyers and academics met for a three panel series of papers, followed by regulatory commentary, on a variety of issues including: mutual recognition, economic diplomacy, sanctions, […]

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Jul 7, 2015

Report Launch: The New Containment by Bilal Y. Saab

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Securing the Middle East after an Iran nuclear deal is the region and the world’s next big challenge. The United States and its allies have engaged in tireless diplomacy with Iran over the past few years to produce an agreement that would limit Tehran’s nuclear program for the next decade and a half. A final […]

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Jul 1, 2015

Global Missile Defense Conference

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Attempting to defend Europe against a Russian ballistic missile attack would be “extremely challenging and costly,” according to the State Department’s top missile defense official. Frank Rose, Assistant Secretary of State, said that “the size and sophistication of Russia’s strategic missile force” outweighs US and NATO defense interceptors otherwise “available to defend against such a large force.” Rose’s comments […]

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