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Jul 22, 2015

A private briefing on US-Pakistan relations with Her Excellency Hina Rabbani Khar, former Foreign Minister of Pakistan

By Ben Polsky

Speaking at an Atlantic Council briefing, Former Foreign Minister of Pakistan Her Excellency Hina Rabbani Khar offered her unique perspective on “the broad trends prevailing in Pakistan” including the recent talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government in Murree, the Iran deal impact in Pakistan, the status quo of Indo-Pak relations, and the state […]

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Corporate Strategy Forum

Jul 22, 2015

The Foreign and Defense Policy of Arms Exports to Asia

By THE BRENT SCOWCROFT CENTER ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

On Friday, July 17, 2015, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a conversation on Foreign Defense Policy of Arms Exports to Asia as the latest event of the Corporate Strategy Forum. The event, moderated by the Atlantic Council’s MA and George Lund Fellow Steven Grundman, featured Todd Chapman, principal deputy assistant secretary of […]

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Jul 17, 2015

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

By South Asia Center

Atlantic Council Can the IAEA Effectively Verify an Agreement Between Iran and the P5+1? Introduction:William Green Miller,Senior Advisor, US-Iran Program,Search for Common Ground Speakers:Thomas Shea,Former Safeguards Official,International Atomic Energy Agency Jon Wolfsthal,Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control,National Security Council Jim Walsh,Research Associate, Security Studies Program,Massachusetts Institute of Technology John Limbert,Class of 1955 Professor of […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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Jul 10, 2015

Syria’s worsening refugee crisis demands action from the West

By Nicholas Burns and David Miliband

The Obama administration and its European allies are confronted by multiple crises in an increasingly turbulent and violent Middle East — the Iran nuclear threat, a strengthening Islamic State and the disintegration of Iraq, Yemen and Libya as functioning nation-states. But no problem is as difficult, grave or pivotal as the brutal, bloody and worsening […]

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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 […]

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