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Feb 4, 2015

Roundtable Discussion with the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete

By Global Energy Center

On Tuesday, February 3rd, the Global Energy Center hosted an off-the-record, small roundtable discussion with one of Europe’s leading energy expert and policy maker, European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete. The event was introduced and moderated by Atlantic Council’s President and CEO, Frederick Kempe.

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Feb 4, 2015

J. Peter Pham and Bronwyn Bruton Write on US Strategy in Africa

By Africa Center

Atlantic Council Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham and Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton contributed essays to a French Ministry of Defense study on US strategy in Africa.

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Feb 4, 2015

Ukraine’s Economic Reform: Insights from the Newly Minted Minister of Finance

By Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center

The Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center hosted a conference call with Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko on February 3. Jaresko said Ukraine faces three major challenges: the war against Russian-backed separatists, the recession, and a civil society that is demanding greater legitimacy from its government and state institutions.

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Feb 2, 2015

Transcript: Intelligence in a Dynamic World

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Atlantic Council Intelligence in a Dynamic World Speaker:Dr. Michael G. Vickers,Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Introduction and Moderator:Barry Pavel,Vice President and Director,Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security,Atlantic Council Location: Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C. Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 Transcript BySuperior Transcriptions LLCwww.superiortranscriptions.com

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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 […]

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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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In the News

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
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