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Oct 31, 2014

Conference: Bangladesh in Focus

By Atlantic Council

On October 1, the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center hosted a two-panel discussion on Bangladesh. Panelists Amb. William Milam, Senior Scholar, Asia Program, Wilson Center; Amb. Teresita Schaffer, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, The India Project, Brookings Institution; and Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Muniruzzaman, President, Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies discussed the new political […]

South Asia

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Oct 31, 2014

Building strong and sustained US-Pakistan Relationship

By Atlantic Council

On October 14, the Atlantic Council’s South Asia hosted US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Daniel Feldman and Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani for a briefing on the state of US-Pakistan relations. The briefing was a part of the US-Pakistan Conference, a track II effort to produce a continuous […]

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Oct 31, 2014

Atlantic Council hosts Inaugural US-Pakistan Conference

By Atlantic Council

On 14-15 October 2014, the Atlantic Council hosted the inaugural United States Pakistan Conference, a high level track 2 convening of leadership from political, military, business and civil society fields from the United States and Pakistan, to discuss common challenges ahead in the US Pakistan relationship and to search for practicable solutions. Despite the shared […]

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Oct 30, 2014

Deconstructing Democracy: Elections in India

By Atlantic Council

With the world’s largest democracy and a population of 1.3 billion, elections in India are among the most complex democratic exercises in the world. Navin Chawla, former election commissioner of India, spoke to the Atlantic Council about how a country of 814 million registered voters maintains an efficient and universally respected election process and peaceful […]

Elections
India

Article

Oct 30, 2014

Spotlight Cuba

By Rachel DeLevie-Orey

How would both the United States and Cuba attending the Summit of the Americas impact their relationship? Download (PDF) For the past two decades, the Summit of the Americas has convened the western hemisphere’s heads of state without the participation of Cuba. That is likely about to change. In April 2015, Panama will host the […]

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Oct 29, 2014

Column: Tunisia Shows the Way While Egypt Stumbles

By Barbara Slavin

The final results of parliamentary elections had yet to be announced, but Rachid Ghannouchi, head of Tunisia’s moderate Muslim Ennahda party, called the head of a secular alliance, Nidaa Tounes, on Monday to congratulate him on what appeared to be a decisive secularist victory. Once again, Tunisia – the country where the Arab spring began […]

North Africa

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Oct 29, 2014

Russia’s Energy Relations with the West: The Energy Charter Perspective

By Atlantic Council

On Monday, October 20th, the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center hosted a public event Russia’s Energy Relations with the West: The Energy Charter Perspective featuring Ambassador Urban Rusnák, Secretary-General of the Energy Charter Secretariat. Ambassador John Herbst, Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, welcomed the audience. The event was introduced by Marat Terterov, Executive Director […]

Energy & Environment
Russia

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Oct 29, 2014

Conference Call: Ukraine Votes

By Atlantic Council

On October 28, the Atlantic Council hosted an on-the-record conference call on Ukraine’s recent parliamentary elections. The call featured John Herbst, director of the Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, and Adrian Karatnycky, senior fellow in the Council’s Transatlantic Relations Program and former CEO of Freedom House. It was moderated by Damon Wilson, executive vice president […]

Elections
Politics & Diplomacy

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Oct 28, 2014

Strategy Session on Baltic Security with Minister of the Interior for Estonia, H.E. Hanno Pavkur

By Atlantic Council

A month after an Estonian security officer was kidnapped and forced over the Russian border with scant international response, the Atlantic Council welcomed the Minister of the Interior for Estonia, H.E. Hanno Pavkur, for an off-the-record strategy session on European and Baltic security issues on October 16. With large Russian-speaking populations, many NATO policymakers see […]

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Northern Europe

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Oct 28, 2014

The Future of US Commitments to Europe

By Atlantic Council

On October 17, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy James J. Townsend, Jr. and Brigadier General Jackie Van Ovost met with members of the transatlantic defense community to discuss US security commitments to Europe and the capability of NATO Allies to handle increasingly-complex international security issues with a limited resources and […]

NATO
Security & Defense