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Jun 7, 2014

Conversations Center on Poland’s Progress and Ukraine’s Challenges

Wrocław Global Forum: Day 1 The Wrocław Global Forum debated issues of transatlantic security and economic partnership in the opening day of a conference spotlighted by this week’s visit to Poland of US President Barack Obama. The fifth annual forum, in the 1,000-year-old Polish cultural center of Wrocław, found speakers debating how the US and […]

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Jun 7, 2014

Conversations on the Transatlantic Partnership, a Europe Whole and Free, and a New Ukraine

Wrocław Global Forum: Day 2 On the same day that Ukraine swore in President Petro Poroshenko, attention at the Wrocław Global Forum turned to concrete proposals for the transatlantic community to support Ukraine’s new government and deter further aggression by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Jun 6, 2014

What Europe Means

By Nicholas Dungan

Today, June 6th, 2014, veterans and national leaders gather in Normandy to commemorate the Allied landings seventy years ago that began the liberation of France and the western half of Europe. Later this year, on November 9th, the world will observe the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of […]

Europe & Eurasia

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Jun 5, 2014

Discussion with the Burkinabé minister of human rights and civil promotion

By Africa Center

In 2012, the West African nation of Burkina Faso created a Ministry for Human Rights and Civic Promotion to promote physical security, economic prosperity, and access to health and education for all Burkinabé citizens. Since its inception, the ministry has actively promoted gender equity, a focus that is consistent with Ouagadougou’s priorities: a 2009 law […]

Africa Civil Society

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Jun 5, 2014

Saab Contributes Chapter to New Book on Middle East Security

By Bilal Saab

Resident Senior Fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Bilal Saab has contributed a chapter to a forthcoming book on the challenges to security in the Middle East:

Middle East

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Jun 5, 2014

Pakistan’s Polio Fight

We have the money, science, and political will but the [polio eradication] program design is flawed.” A majority of the world has overcome polio, a once highly prevalent disease, yet Pakistan is one of just three countries where the disease remains endemic—and it poses a threat to polio-free countries around the world. After nearing almost […]

Pakistan

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Jun 5, 2014

D-Day’s meaning

By Nicholas Burns

CAEN, France – SEVENTY YEARS later, it is what they managed to do here that is still so striking and inspiring. The greatest amphibious invasion in history — led by young American, British, and Canadian paratroopers, soldiers, sailors, and airmen — delivered Europe from Hitler’s evil and paved the road to the collapse of the Third […]

Viktoria Siumar, a career journalist who now is the deputy secretary of Ukraine's National Security Council, spoke to the Atlantic Council June 4.

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Jun 4, 2014

Ukrainian National Security Council Official on Russia’s Disinformation War

Kyiv Battles Kremlin Myths, Siumar Says; Is Not Considering Martial Law As Ukraine and its government battle Russian-backed secessionist militias in its two southeastern provinces, it also confronts public fears and suspicions among many of the 6.6 million people there (14 percent of Ukraine’s population). That is largely because Russia has had a free hand […]

Europe & Eurasia Russia

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Jun 4, 2014

How to Interpret Obama at West Point?

By Nicholas Dungan

Does Barack Obama’s speech last week to the graduating class of West Point outlining his philosophy on the United States role in the world represent a new “Obama Doctrine” or is it actually more in line with traditional US foreign policy since the Second World War ?

Captains of Industry Series

Jun 4, 2014

The Future of American Space Launch

What is the future of American space launch? As defense and space budgets decline, what is the future of US involvement in space? Gwynne Shotwell, president and COO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), gave an address entitled “The Future of American Space Launch” as part of the Atlantic Council Captains of Industry series on June […]

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