Category: Timely Commentary & Analysis

Panel Recap: “Ensuring Effective Missile Defense in the Future”

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Ten to twenty years from now, the requirements for missile defense will confront a future that is increasingly complex and dynamic. And that complexity and dynamism play a strong role in creating uncertainty for how to plan a future for effective missile defense. What are the technologies that will shape missile defense operations in the […]

Sri Lanka and the emerging order in South Asia

After decades of damaging civil war, Sri Lanka and its new government are setting a course to prevent the reoccurrence of conflict and violence. In an unprecedented session combining political and civil society leaders, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the United States His Excellency Prasad Kariyawasam and Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies’ Jeevan Thiagarajah and Dhanya Ratnavale […]

Experts project the US role in the future of urban warfare

By Brent Scowcroft Center

In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity will live in megacities. Megacities will serve as economic, cultural, and political hubs of international affairs—but they also will form the complex landscape of rivalry and violent conflict. Recent instances of urban combat–Saigon, Sarajevo, Fallujah—only begin to inform the epic challenge of fighting in our mid-century megacities. To […]

Panel Recap: “Defense Cooperation in the Gulf: How Far Can We Go?”

By Owen Daniels

According to the particpants on the Brent Scowcroft Center’s missile defense panel entitled, “Defense Cooperation in the Gulf: How Far Can We Go?”, the policies of the United States and the asymmetric threats of Iran are driving cooperation in the Gulf that might have been unimaginable just one year ago. Moderated by Scowcroft Center Resident […]

Greece: Deal or No Deal? Looking at Both Sides of the Greece-Euro Coin

By Andrea Montanino and Demetrios Papageorgiou

Faced with a $1.8 billion debt payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday, Greece was unable to reach an agreement with its Eurozone partners and the IMF yesterday in the latest round of talks in Brussels as both sides failed to make progress on key issues such as pension reform and taxation. A […]

Global Suppliers Face Challenges in US Market, Say CEOs

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On June 24, 2015 the Atlantic Council hosted a panel discussion with Michael Andersson, President and CEO of Saab North America, Judy Marks, President and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, Allen Pellegrini, President and CEO of Thales USA, and Peter Lengyel, President and CEO of Safran USA. This extraordinary panel was a part of the […]

Shaping the Asia-Pacific Report Launch

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On June 24, 2015, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security launched a report titled Shaping the Asia-Pacific Future: Strengthening the Institutional Architecture for an Open, Rules-Based Economic Order. The report was co-written by Olin Wethington, former Assistant Secretary of Treasury and Nonresident Fellow at the Scowcroft Center and Robert A. Manning, Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Center. The […]

Unlocking the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Views from Both Sides of the Pacific

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center and Global Business and Economics Program

President Barack Obama announced in November 2009 the United States’ intention to participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The TPP came to include twelve countries, and to represent roughly 40 percent of the world’s GDP. On June 23, 2015 – just minutes before this event – the US Senate voted to end debate on […]