Category: Timely Commentary & Analysis

Strategic Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century

On Thursday, January 15, 2015, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security welcomed Admiral Cecil D. Haney, the Commander of US Strategic Command, for a public address entitled “Strategic Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century.” For ADM Haney, the United States must keep a credible strategic deterrent to keep threats at bay in a world of […]

Confronting Threats on Multiple Fronts: Charting NATO’s Future

By Brent Scowcroft Center

At the start of 2015, NATO finds itself facing three of the most difficult security challenges since the beginning of the post-Cold War world: the Ukrainian conflict and rising tensions in the East, the threat posed by European foreign fighters in Syria and the stability of NATO’s southern borders, and NATO funding in the age […]

“A US-India comeback?”

By Nicholas Burns

THE UNITED STATES has a major opportunity this month to return to a close security and economic partnership with India — a priority of the last three American presidents. The new Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, signaled he wants to get beyond the problem-ridden last few years between Delhi and Washington by inviting President Obama […]

Shared oil interests can push Sino-US cooperation in Middle East

By Robert A. Manning

It went all but unnoticed, but in another milestone of its growing global role, in 2014 China surpassed the US as the world’s largest importer of oil. As the US and China struggle to define what a “new model of major power relationship” actually means, one measure of it would be for the world’s two […]

Opinion: Some Exploiting France’s Tragedy

By Barbara Slavin

In the aftermath of last week’s tragic events in France, the world has witnessed great demonstrations of solidarity. Judging from the more than one million people who gathered in Paris – and others in smaller rallies in Europe and in Washington, D.C. — the murder of 17 journalists, police and shoppers in a Jewish market […]

SPEECH BY PHILIP DUNNE AT THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL ON 17 DEC 14

By Brent Scowcroft Center

SPEECH BY PHILIP DUNNE AT THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL ON 17 DEC 14 SECURING OPERATIONAL SUPERIORITY THROUGH DEFENCE INNOVATION: A UK PERSPECTIVE IntroductionIt’s great to be back in the United States for the third time this year – a place that always feels like home. A place that was my home for two years in the […]

Transcript: US Energy Diplomacy Priorities for 2015

Atlantic Council US Energy Diplomacy Priorities for 2015 Speaker: Amos Hochstein, Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, U.S. Department of State Moderator: Richard L. Morningstar, Founding Director, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council Location: Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C. Time: 2:00 p.m. EDT Date: Thursday, January 8, 2015 Transcript By Superior Transcriptions LLC www.superiortranscriptions.com