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Dec 22, 2014

Transcript: Conversation with Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

By Atlantic Council

Transcript of Exclusive Conversation with H.E. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria December 19, 2014

Africa Nigeria

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Dec 22, 2014

Atlantic Council Exclusive: Nigeria’s Finance Minister Discusses the Impact of Falling Oil Prices on Africa’s Biggest Economy

By Africa Center

As Africa’s most populous country, its largest economy, and its top petroleum producer, Nigeria has grown about 7 percent a year for the past decade. With the expansion of the telecommunications, media, and retail sectors and a new interest in agriculture, the ubiquitous oil industry nowadays accounts for just 14 percent of the economy. The […]

Africa Economy & Business

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Dec 21, 2014

Time Is Not on His Side

By Robert A. Manning

To salvage the Russian economy, Putin should withdraw from Ukraine and accept a compromise. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s problem is that he was born on third base, but thinks he hit a triple. Putin’s tenure in office has, until now, been lubricated by high oil prices that account for 60 percent of Russian exports and, […]

Russia Ukraine

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Dec 19, 2014

Libya: A Failed State Threatens the Region

By Africa Center

Bottom Line Up Front:•  Nearly three years after the collapse of Muammar Qadhafi’s regime, Libya has become a failed state, reaching levels of instability never before experienced in North Africa and the Sahel •  More than 1,700 competing clans, regional and Islamist militias are vying over control of what remains of the state; some radical […]

Africa Libya

Emerging Defense Challenges

Dec 18, 2014

Securing Operations Superiority Through Defense Innovation: A UK Perspective

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On Wednesday December 17, 2014, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security welcomed Philip Dunne MP, minister for defense, equipment, support and technology, for his speech titled “Securing Operational Superiority through Defense Innovation: A UK Perspective.” This Defense-Industrial Policy Series event, cohosted with the National Defense Industrial Association, was moderated by Steven Grundman, the M.A. […]

Russia

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Dec 17, 2014

Statement from Frederick Kempe, President and CEO of the Atlantic Council, on New US Policy Toward Cuba

By Atlantic Council

President Barack Obama’s executive order today dramatically alters Cuba policy in a manner likely to advance individual freedom and democratic change. In taking steps to pursue direct engagement with a country just 90 miles off our coast, the president’s actions will open access to information, increase exchanges, boost private enterprise, and accelerate democracy. Once walls […]

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Dec 17, 2014

Statement from Peter Schechter, Director Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, on New US Policy Toward Cuba

By Atlantic Council

In the last month, President Obama has used executive orders to address the two largest structural impediments to better US relations with Latin America; immigration, and Cuba. We commend his leadership on both counts. Today, nearly 55 years of ineffective Cuba sanctions policy has come to an end.

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Dec 17, 2014

High Risk, High Reward: Perspectives on American Investment in Remote and Challenging Areas

By Africa Center

In recent years, Africa has demonstrated extraordinary economic potential, and American and other investors are increasingly looking to benefit from its growth. But difficult political, security, and economic challenges vary greatly across the continent’s fifty-four countries, leaving companies that are unable to manage the risks in danger of missing out on one of the world’s […]

Africa

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Dec 17, 2014

Statement from Jason Marczak, Deputy Director Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, on New US Policy Toward Cuba

By Atlantic Council

The actions taken by President Obama today are the effective end of a policy that for nearly 55 years has failed to produce real, democratic change in Cuba. The embargo now exists in name only. The freeing of Alan Gross and an unnamed US intelligence asset has opened the door for relaxing restrictions on banking, […]

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Dec 17, 2014

Britain’s Choice: In or Out? A Conversation with Hugo Dixon

By Atlantic Council

On Tuesday, December 16, 2014, the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Relations Program hosted Reuters editor-at-large Hugo Dixon for a discussion of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union. The talk, entitled “Britain’s Choice: In or Out?” and moderated by Transatlantic Relations director Fran Burwell, examined domestic and international considerations surrounding a potential referendum in the […]

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