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Sep 26, 2014

The Rising Power of Central Banks and Sovereign Funds as Investors

‘Global Public Investors’ Hold $29 Trillion in Global Assets—and Raise Regulatory Questions The Atlantic Council hosted a panel discussion September 22 on the increasing role in capital markets of the world’s hundreds of central banks, sovereign wealth funds and government pension funds. The top 400 of these “global public investors” hold about $29 trillion in […]

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Sep 26, 2014

Column: Islam, Heal Thyself

By Barbara Slavin

NEW YORK—No one doubts the ability of President Barack Obama to deliver a terrific speech. Still, the address he made Wednesday to the annual meeting of the U.N. Security Council was especially eloquent in its appeal to the Muslim world to cure itself of the diseases of extremism and intolerance that historically plagued many religions […]

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Sep 25, 2014

Arab allies key in fight against ISIS

By Nicholas Burns

President Obama was right to order airstrikes against the ISIS home base in northern Syria Monday night. There was no alternative but to target ISIS headquarters in Raqqa and other locations where the terrorist group has built up a considerable infrastructure. The US strategy to contain ISIS and to prevent it from dismembering Iraq cannot […]

Middle East
Syria

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Sep 23, 2014

Latin America is Ripe for Social Impact Investment

By Atlantic Council

Latin America is ripe for impact investment, according to two social impact investment experts who spoke at the Atlantic Council on September 10. The poverty rate has dropped from 42 percent in 2000 to 25 percent in 2012. Four hundred million people have risen from the base of the economic pyramid in recent years. This […]

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Sep 23, 2014

Former Pentagon Officials Discuss Better Buying Power 3.0 Release

By The Atlantic Council

On September 19, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a conference call on the Department of Defense’s Better Buying Power 3.0 initiative, which was announced earlier that morning. In his speech, Under Secretary Frank Kendall indicated that this third evolution of the DoD’s keystone initiative for improving the defense acquisition management system would […]

Article

Sep 22, 2014

Column: Tehran Politics Constrain Nuclear Talks

By Barbara Slavin

NEW YORK – Among the arguments Iranian officials are marshalling in the nuclear negotiations that resumed this week in New York is that domestic politics severely constrain their ability to compromise. This is the best we can do, they seem to be saying: Accept our position or you will face even more hardline interlocutors in […]

Iran
Nuclear Nonproliferation

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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, […]

Europe & Eurasia
European Union

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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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Ukraine
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