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May 7, 2015

2015 Global Strategy Forum: Imaging Solutions

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Atlantic Council 2015 Global Strategy Forum: New Approaches to a Changing World Imagining Solutions Welcome: Daniel Y. Chiu, Deputy Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Scene Setter: Peter Schwartz, Senior Vice President for Government Relations and Strategic Planning, Salesforce.com Speakers: David Rothkopf, CEO and Editor, Foreign Policy Group Joshua J. Marcuse, Senior […]

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May 7, 2015

2015 Global Strategy Forum: New Approaches to a Changing World

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Atlantic Council 2015 Global Strategy Forum: New Approaches to a Changing World Final Insights Welcome: Daniel Y. Chiu, Deputy Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Moderator: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council Speakers: Mathew J. Burrows, Director, Strategic Foresight Initiative, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Ashlee Godwin, Deputy […]

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May 7, 2015

2015 Global Strategy Forum: Debate; America’s Role in the World

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Atlantic Council 2015 Global Strategy Forum: New Approaches to a Changing World Debate: America’s Role in the World Welcome: Daniel Y. Chiu, Deputy Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Moderator: Hisham Melhem, Washington Bureau Chief, Al Arabiya News Channel Debaters: Xenia Wickett, Project Director, U.S. and Dean, The Queen Elizabeth II Academy […]

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May 7, 2015

2015 Global Strategy Forum: Preventing Failures

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Atlantic Council 2015 Global Strategy Forum: New Approaches to a Changing World Preventing Failures Scene Setter: Peter Schwartz, Senior Vice President for Government Relations and Strategic Planning, Salesforce.com Speakers: Heather Zichal, Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council August Cole, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council; Co-Author, “Ghost Fleet: A […]

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May 7, 2015

2015 Global Strategy Forum: Welcome and Enhancing Foresight

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Atlantic Council 2015 Global Strategy Forum: New Approaches to a Changing World Welcome and Enhancing Foresight Welcome: Daniel Y. Chiu, Deputy Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Chairman, Atlantic Council Scene Setter: Peter Schwartz, Senior Vice President for Government Relations and Strategic Planning, Salesforce.com Speakers: Vijay Kumar, UPS […]

Event Recap

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 […]

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Conflict

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May 1, 2015

Iran’s Zarif Dancing As Fast as He Can

By Barbara Slavin

EW YORK —This week, this reporter got a chance to witness two impressive performances in rather different fields. On Tuesday night, Robert Fairchild, the New York City ballet star turned Broadway phenomenon, managed to eclipse his idol Gene Kelly in a reimagining of the movie musical “An American in Paris.”

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May 1, 2015

Coalition Scores Victories Against Boko Haram

By Joshua Meservey and Kelsey Lilley

Bottom Line Up Front:  • On April 28 and 30 the Nigerian military rescued hundreds of female hostages from Boko Haram’s stronghold in the northern Sambisa Forest • The origins of the freed kidnap victims are unknown, but the military has announced that most of them are not the schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok in April […]

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Nigeria

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Apr 30, 2015

Sun Tzu Meets Muhammed Jinnah

By Harlan Ullman

The visit of China’s President Xi Jing Ping to Islamabad and the promised commitment of some $45 billion to develop a new “silk road” through Pakistan could be a stunning geopolitical as well as economic development Of course, Pakistan and China have enjoyed a long-standing relationship in part impelled by India’s role as a rival […]

In the News

Apr 29, 2015

Pham Testifies on African Terror Threats

By Africa Center

J. Peter Pham, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, testified at a House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security hearing, “Terrorism in Africa: The Imminent Threat to the United States.” 

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