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Apr 25, 2016

Elements of NATO Deterrence

By Transatlantic Security Initiative

On April 25, 2016 the Atlantic Council led a private workshop on Elements of NATO Deterrence in Warsaw, Poland. The event convened US and European policymakers, scholars, and business leaders for a high-level discussion on the challenges facing NATO on its eastern and southern flanks in the run-up to the seminal NATO Warsaw Summit and […]

NATO Security & Defense

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Apr 21, 2016

Update on Recent Developments in the DRC

By Africa Center

On Thursday, April 21, the Africa Center hosted Richard Gittleman, President and Executive Director of United for Africa’s Democratic Future, for a luncheon roundtable on recent developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham welcomed participants and set the stage for the discussion, explaining that presidential elections in […]

Africa

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Apr 21, 2016

Defending Europe’s Eastern Flank

By Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security

On April 14, 2016, the Atlantic Council hosted a major public conference on Defending Europe’s Eastern Flank on Capitol Hill. The conference served as the major public ‘curtain raiser’ in Washington for NATO’s 2016 Summit in Warsaw this July.

NATO Security & Defense

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Apr 21, 2016

Did Ukraine Power Grid Hack Give Russia an Edge?

By CSM Passcode and Jack Detsch

At an Atlantic Council event Thursday, experts said that a Ukrainian power outage allegedly triggered by Russian hackers may be just a small piece of Moscow’s cybersecurity strategy. If Russian hackers did shut down swaths of Ukraine’s power grid last year, as US officials have claimed, it may be just one piece of Moscow’s strategy […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

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Apr 21, 2016

Ukraine Must Fully Implement IMF Program, says Former Finance Minister

By Mitch Hulse

Ukraine’s new government must fully implement the International Monetary Fund’s financial assistance program and undertake “painful reforms,” the country’s former Finance Minister, Natalie Jaresko, said on April 14. Jaresko spoke at an event hosted by the Atlantic Council hours after learning she had lost her job in a government shakeup—the most significant since 2014—marked by […]

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Apr 20, 2016

The Smartest Places on Earth – Why Rustbelts are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation

By Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center

“The Smartest Places on Earth- Why Rustbelts are the emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation” Exploring how the rustbelts form yesterday can be the “brainbelts” of tomorrow, Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker counter recent conventional wisdom that American and northern European economies have lost their initiative in innovation and their competitive edge. Their book, The Smartest […]

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Apr 20, 2016

Strategy Breakfast with Greek Cypriot Negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis

By Susan Haigh

On April 20, 2016, the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative and Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a private strategy breakfast with Ambassador Andreas Mavroyiannis, chief negotiator for the Greek Cypriots in the UN-facilitated intercommunal talks on the Cyprus problem. Ambassador Mavroyiannis briefed the group on progress in the intensified settlement talks, Cyprus’s trajectory […]

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Apr 20, 2016

EXPERT ANALYSIS Beyond Riyadh: Breaking Down the US-GCC Summit

EXPERT ANALYSIS Beyond Riyadh: Breaking Down the US-GCC Summit with Zalmay Khalilzad President; Board Director Gryphon Partners; Atlantic Council Barry Pavel Vice President, Arnold Kanter Chair, and Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Atlantic Council Ali Tulbah Managing Director McLarty Associates

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Apr 19, 2016

A Conversation with the Finance Minister of Argentina, Alfonso Prat-Gay. April 14

By Benjamin Knudsen

Guests convene in the Atlantic Council lobby prior to the event   On April 14 the Finance Minister of Argentina, Alfonso Prat-Gay, came to the Atlantic Council to speak about Argentina’s new economic agenda under the nascent Macri administration. For the last decade Argentina has been exiled from the international economic community over a dispute […]

Economy & Business

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Apr 19, 2016

Ricardo Sennes and Andrea Murta Discuss the Impeachment in Brazil

By Andrea Murta

The Brazilian House of Representative voted on April 17 to approve the impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff, setting the stage for a Senate trial in the coming months. While some in Brazil criticize the legitimacy of the impeachment, others see in it a sign of political engagement and strength of democratic institutions. A day […]

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