Category: Timely Commentary & Analysis

Anti-trust in the Eastern Mediterranean

By Brenda Shaffer

Five years ago, significant deposits of natural gas were discovered off the coast of Israel, followed in 2011 by a minor natural gas discovery offshore of neighboring Cyprus. These discoveries have catalyzed explorations in the greater Eastern Mediterranean region generating expectations of enhanced regional energy security and economic and environmental payoffs, benefits Israel has already […]

Transcript: US-India; Enhancing Ties

By South Asia Center

Atlantic Council US-India: Enhancing Ties – A Conversation with Senator Mark R. Warner Speaker: Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Member, Senate India Caucus Introduction: Jon Huntsman, Chairman, Board of Directors, Atlantic Council Moderator: Bharath Gopalaswamy, Acting Director, South Asia Center, Atlantic Council Location: Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C. Date: Friday, January 16, 2015 Transcript By Superior […]

Opinion: Deepening Israel-Iran Conflict Likely to Bring More Violence

By Barbara Slavin

Two developments this week linked to the long-running conflict between Israel and Iran are likely to generate even more violence and uncertainty at a time when threats are already multiplying from Sunni Muslim extremists. On Sunday, a helicopter gunship operating in Syria near the border with Israel killed the son of Hezbollah’s former military commander, […]

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 […]