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Sep 22, 2014

Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards Celebrate Dynamic, Diverse Individuals

By The Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council presented its annual Global Citizen Awards on September 21 to six people whose leadership or partnership has strengthened the transatlantic community and contributed to its role in addressing world problems. The 2014 honorees are: former President of Israel Shimon Peres; actor, film director, and producer Robert De Niro; former Prime Minister of […]

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Sep 19, 2014

Scotland’s ‘No’ to Independence Avoids Cataclysm for UK, Former NATO Chief Says

Lord George Robertson: Scottish Vote May Calm Other Secession Moves Yesterday’s decisive rejection of independence by Scottish voters has sidestepped a “cataclysmic” degradation of Britain, a pillar of the transatlantic community, said Lord George Robertson, a former secretary-general of NATO. It is likely to slow down other secession movements, which challenge governments in Spain, Belgium, […]

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Sep 19, 2014

Mat Burrows ‘Declassifies the Future’ to a Rapt Audience

By The Atlantic Council

“This is the closest you’re going to come to seeing through the fog and making sense of the megatrends that are coming” said Frederick Kempe, Atlantic Council President and CEO, of Mathew Burrows’ latest publication, The Future Declassified: Megatrends that Will Undo the World Unless We Take Action. The book expands on his work on […]

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Sep 19, 2014

Transcript: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Speaks at the Atlantic Council

By The Atlantic Council

ATLANTIC COUNCIL   Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Speaks at the Atlantic Council Welcome:Jon Huntsman,Chairman,Atlantic Council;Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) Moderator:Frederick Kempe,President,Atlantic Council Speaker:Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Location:Washington, D.C. Time: 6:20 p.m. EDTDate: Thursday, September 18, 2014 Transcript by Federal News Service Washington, D.C.

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Sep 19, 2014

Transcript: After the Summit, General Philip M. Breedlove on NATO’s Path Forward

By The Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council After the Summit:General Philip M. Breedlove on NATO’s Path Forward Welcome:Jon Huntsman,Chairman,Atlantic Council Moderator:Frederick Kempe,President and CEO,Atlantic Council Speaker:General Philip Breedlove,NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europeand Commander, U.S. European Command Location: Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C. Time: 11:00 a.m. EDTDate: Monday, September 15, 2014 Transcript by Federal News Service Washington, D.C.

NATO Security & Defense

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Sep 19, 2014

Atlantic Council and USAID Host Colombian Superstar Carlos Vives

By The Atlantic Council

Intimate Lunch Highlights Work on Afro-Colombian Inclusion The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, in partnership with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), hosted a private lunch with Carlos Vives, the Grammy-award-winning Colombian rock and vallenato fusion superstar, at its headquarters in Washington on September 17. Corporate, government, and civil society leaders joined […]

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Sep 19, 2014

Poroshenko: Ukraine Needs Arms ‘to Win the Peace’

By James Rupert

Ukrainian President Outlines Strategy, Asks US Help to Build Army and Halt Corruption Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko spoke at the Atlantic Council today, outlining his hopes to use his country’s fragile, two-week-old truce with Russia to ultimately defeat Moscow’s efforts to wrest control of southeastern Ukraine. In the final stop of a fast-paced official visit […]

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Sep 18, 2014

Counterinsurgency in Somalia: Lessons Learned from the African Union Mission in Somalia, 2007-2013

By The Atlantic Council

Africa Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton co-authored a Joint Special Operations University monograph with Dr. Paul Williams, associate professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University, on the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The authors bring their expertise in governance, conflict mitigation, and Africa, to this analysis of Somalia’s attempts […]

East Africa Somalia

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Sep 18, 2014

Peace after Gaza: A New Framework for a Changing Landscape

By The Atlantic Council

In the aftermath of seven weeks of conflict in Gaza, regional and international stakeholders are grappling with the day after. Efforts to address short-term issues such as relief and recovery that require immediate attention should not detract from broader issues including lasting stability, development, security, and political pluralism. Does the recent conflict allow for a […]

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Sep 17, 2014

Europe’s Changing Borders

By Ioan Mircea Pascu

In defiance of international law and established rules of behavior, President Vladimir Putin’s Russia illegally annexed Crimea by force last spring and is vigorously destabilizing eastern Ukraine with a combination of military and nonmilitary means now called by specialists a “hybrid war.”

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