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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 […]

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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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Sep 17, 2014

Art & Science: An Exhibition of Arctic Climate Change

By The Atlantic Council

On September 10, the Atlantic Council’s Young Atlanticist Program hosted the first of a series of Arctic events developed by the ELEEP Network’s Arctic Climate Change Emerging Leaders (ACCEL) Fellows. Examining the role art plays in communicating the science of climate change to the public, artists Diane Burko and Mia Feuer presented their Arctic inspired […]

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Sep 17, 2014

Breedlove: NATO Has Begun Shaping Rapid Response Force

Alliance’s Commander Says New Force Will Include US Troops NATO has begun shaping the strengthened presence in Eastern Europe that the Alliance’s leaders approved ten days ago at their summit conference in Wales, its military commander, US Air Force General Philip Breedlove, said. US troops will be part of the new rapid-response force to be […]

NATO
Russia

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Sep 16, 2014

International Defense-industrial Cooperation in the Post-financial Crisis Era

UK and US defense capabilities have benefitted extensively from close industrial and technological cooperation for over seventy years. As the two allies contend with the fiscal challenges of the post-financial crisis era, the time is right to consider the benefits of close cooperation and approaches to maximize cooperation for the future. International Defense-industrial Cooperation in […]

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Sep 12, 2014

Despite Detours and Reservations, Egypt Navigating Transition Reasonably Well

By The Atlantic Council

Despite political detours and reservations, Egypt is moving forward and navigating its transition reasonably well, said Ahmed Galal, former Minister of Finance for Egypt and managing director of the Economic Research Forum. Galal was speaking at a Hariri Center public discussion, “Tackling Egypt’s Economic Dilemma” on September 10, 2014. Atlantic Council Vice President and Hariri […]

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Sep 11, 2014

Column: Coalition Against Islamic State Must Include Iran

By Barbara Slavin

President Barack Obama is right to focus on the responsibility of the Sunni Muslim world to attack and expunge the cancer that is the militant group calling itself the Islamic State (IS). The group’s perversion of Islam in the service of its barbaric goals needs to be confronted first and foremost by those for whom […]

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