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Emerging Defense Challenges

May 14, 2015

Strategy Session with Robert Scher, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities

By Brent Scowcroft Center

The Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a strategy session for Robert Scher, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, on Thursday, May 14, 2015. This session brought together noted strategists and security and defense experts to discuss the most pressing strategic priorities for the Department of Defense.

Event Recap

May 14, 2015

Reforming the Future: Lessons from Sovereign Debt Restructuring

By Global Business and Economics

“Debt restructuring is like a divorce—you can make the perfect framework, but it is always messy.” Maarten Petermann of JP Morgan aptly framed the debate around the issue of sovereign debt restructuring, something which has seized headlines in the last year across Europe and Latin America. Defaults, eager and stubborn investors, and questions of sovereignty […]

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May 14, 2015

iFarm Pakistan: Food security, innovation, and commercialization

By Nazia Khan

Pakistan’s agriculture sector has underachieved for the last few decades, and along with structural issues, has led to a growing food security crisis in the country. Gregory Gottlieb, USAID Mission Director for Pakistan, spoke to the Atlantic Council about the growing crisis that stems from not just “how much Pakistan grows,” but from “what it […]

Pakistan

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May 14, 2015

Cross-Straits Series: Implications of Energy Security on Critical Geopolitical, Economic, and Environmental Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region

On May 14, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s (BSC) Asia Security Initiative hosted a Cross-Straits Series event on the effects of energy security in the Asia-Pacific. Considering the heated debates on the region today, energy security has been a relatively underappreciated and under-examined topic. This discussion with Edward C. Chow, a Senior Fellow […]

Event Recap

May 12, 2015

Transatlantic Views on Security in the High North

On May 12, 2015, representatives of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Iceland visited the Council to discuss with a panel of experts, representing the Council and other institutions, emerging security threats in the Arctic, or High North.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

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May 11, 2015

Expansive and Inclusive Growth: A Conversation with Leading AfDB Presidential Candidate H.E. Akinwumi Adesina

By Africa Center

Later this month, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the regional multilateral bank for Africa, will hold elections for a new president to succeed incumbent Donald Kaberuka. On Monday, May 11, the Africa Center was pleased to welcome a leading candidate for the position, Nigerian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development H.E. Akinwumi Adesina.

Africa

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May 7, 2015

Breaking Down Digital Barriers: Turning a Transatlantic Challenge Into Opportunity

By Garrett Workman

Just as the European Commission launched its plans for a new Digital Single Market (DSM) in Brussels, the Atlantic Council hosted a panel discussion on the future of the transatlantic digital economy and US-EU cooperation on data privacy and Internet issues. H.E. David O’Sullivan, EU Ambassador to the United States, provided keynote remarks and was […]

Europe & Eurasia European Union

Event Recap

May 7, 2015

Climate Change and National Security

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On April 17, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s Strategic Foresight Initiative hosted a workshop on “Climate Change and National Security” as part of our ongoing partnership with the Government of Sweden. Given the clear national security dimensions of climate change and the politically contentious nature of the climate debate, this workshop served as […]

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

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May 5, 2015

Northern Mali’s critical moment

By Africa Center

Mali has largely fallen from international headlines after a 2013 French military intervention drove back the constellation of terror groups occupying the northern part of the country, but the security situation has again deteriorated to the point it poses an urgent threat to the whole of the country as well as the region. There are […]

Africa Conflict

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Apr 28, 2015

Dynamic Stability: US Strategy for a World in Transition

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On Wednesday, April 22nd, the Atlantic Council brought together a range of experts for the release of its new publication, Dynamic Stability: US Strategy for a World in Transition, the first paper of the series of Atlantic Council Strategy Papers. This inaugural Atlantic Council Strategy Paper explores the key global trends shaping the new “Westphalian-Plus […]

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