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Feb 2, 2015

Advancing the US-Brazil Agenda for 2015 and Beyond

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Immediately following her second-term inauguration, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced plans to schedule the first state visit to the United States in two decades. Does her second term mark a potential turning point for US-Brazil relations? What concrete steps can be taken to enhance cooperation in commerce, energy, agriculture, tourism, aerospace/high technology, and other issues?

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Jan 30, 2015

“Greece’s gamble”

By Nicholas Burns

New government risks undercutting ties with Europe and the US GREECE HAS never been a leader in Europe’s power institutions — NATO and the European Union. German, French, and British leaders alike considered it too small, poor, and geographically remote to be a major player. But all that changed with Sunday’s landslide victory of the […]

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Jan 30, 2015

Transit through Georgia – Potential for US Foreign Policy Success

By Mamuka Tsereteli

Georgia plays a growing, though little-known, role in the global economy. Strategically linked with Azerbaijan, it serves as a key element in the transportation network that connects landlocked, but resource-rich areas of Central Asia to world markets via its Black Sea ports and Turkey. Over one million barrels of oil and oil products cross Georgian […]

Central Asia Energy & Environment

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Jan 29, 2015

Ethiopia: Press Restrictions and the 2015 Elections

By Africa Center

Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, will go to the polls in May. The election will be the country’s first since the death of longtime Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, and has brought into focus the state of independent media and citizens’ access to information in the East African country.

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Jan 29, 2015

Koranyi Testifies Before Senate Energy Committee on LNG Export Legislation

By David Koranyi

Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative Director David Koranyi testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on The LNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act (S. 33):

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Jan 29, 2015

Moving from Bad to Worse? Looking Back to 2014 and Implications for 2015

By Cyber Statecraft Initiative

On January 21 the Cyber Statecraft Initiative kicked off the 2015 Cyber Risk Wednesday event series with the new exclusive media partner for the series, Passcode, the new outlet of Christian Science Monitor. Shane Harris, senior intelligence and national security correspondent for The Daily Beast, and Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder & chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

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Jan 29, 2015

Transition Seminar for Robert Scher, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities

By Brent Scowcroft Center

The Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a Transition Seminar for Robert Scher, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, on Tuesday, January 20. The seminar saw a varied panel of experts gather to offer advice and to hear from Mr. Scher as he transitions into his new role.

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Jan 29, 2015

Remembering Auschwitz

By Nicholas Burns

On the 70th anniversary of liberation, a survivor’s journey is a reminder to recall each victim’s story of strength THIS WEEK marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army. And Thursday is the 83rd birthday of my wife’s uncle, Bernie Rosner, who was hurtled into that Nazi death camp’s cruel […]

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Jan 29, 2015

Spotlight Energy

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

What do lower oil prices mean for Latin America’s energy potential in 2015 and beyond? Read five scenarios. The decline of the global benchmark oil price from around $100 per barrel to under $50 per barrel over the last six months has jolted oil producing and consuming countries throughout the world, including in Latin America. […]

Brazil Energy & Environment

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Jan 28, 2015

Tackling Extremism, Failing States, and the Post-Ottoman Legacy in the Middle East

By Atlantic Council

With the rise of the Islamic State and the attacks on French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a global discourse has once again emerged surrounding the debate within Islam between extremist elements and a moderate majority within Muslim majority countries and in particular, Muslim communities in the West.

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