Category: Timely Commentary & Analysis

Former Putin Adviser on Kremlin’s Big War

Western sanctions on Russia are not working and a proposal to provide defensive weapons to Ukrainian security forces will not deter the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, according to Andrei Illarionov, a former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “For those few people who are there [on the sanctions list], yes, it is rather painful,” but […]

Transcript: Disruptive Technologies in an Age of Uncertainty

By Global Energy Center

Atlantic Council   Global Trends in Renewable Energy: Disruptive Technologies in an Age of Uncertainty     Speaker: Achim Steiner, United Nations (U.N.) Under Secretary General; and Executive Director, U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP)   Moderator: Richard L. Morningstar, Founding Director, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council     Location:  Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C.   Time:  12:30 […]

Transcript: General Wesley Clark: Exclusive Briefing from Ukraine’s Front Lines

    Atlantic Council   General Wesley Clark: Exclusive Briefing from Ukraine’s Front Lines     Speaker: General Wesley Clark, USA (Ret.), Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander   Introduction: Damon Wilson, Executive Vice President, Atlantic Council   Moderator: Jan M. Lodal, Distinguished Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council     Location:  Atlantic […]

To Vote or Not to Vote: Egypt’s Diverse Electorate

By Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East

On March 31, the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center hosted a discussion on Egyptian elections, voting behavior, and the country’s political climate. The roundtable discussion entitled “To Vote or Not to Vote: Egypt’s Diverse Electorate,” featured Hariri Center Nonresident Fellow Sarah El Sirgany, Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M University Sahar F. Aziz, and […]

Opinion: Iran, US Finally Get to Yes in Landmark Nuclear Deal

By Barbara Slavin

There is much work to be done and much that can still go awry, but April 2, 2015 will go down in history as the day when the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States finally got to yes. After 36 years of mutual demonization, proxy wars and occasional direct conflict, the two old […]

ISIS and al-Qaeda: Assessing Terrorist Threats to the Homeland and Beyond

By Larry Luxner

The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) may have grabbed global attention with its brutal terror tactics, but al-Qaeda is still a grave threat to US interests, two national security analysts said April 2 at the Atlantic Council. Bruce Riedel, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Bruce Hoffman, Director of Georgetown University’s […]

Winston Spencer Ghani

By Harlan Ullman

Last month when Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu made his ill-advised plea to Congress to scuttle the nuclear negotiations with Iran, fringe Republican elements in Congress, along with right wing fellow travelers, called Bibi the 21st century’s version of Winston Churchill. Clearly they must have been referring to Churchill’s flip-flops to and from the Conservative […]