Inflection Points

Inflection Points

A weekly column by Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe, Inflection Points focuses on the global challenges facing the United States and how to best address them.

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Inflection Points Today

Jan 11, 2024

Davos and ‘the decade of wasted opportunity’

By Frederick Kempe

As the world continues to face low growth and high borrowing costs, can leaders meeting in Davos help keep the economic turbulence at bay?

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

Inflection Points

Jan 6, 2024

Inside the Biden administration’s thinking for 2024

By Frederick Kempe

Welcome to a year unlike any other. Here’s how the Biden team plans to navigate it.

Elections Politics & Diplomacy
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Inflection Points Today

Jan 5, 2024

Democracy’s decisive year—globally

By Frederick Kempe

What’s undeniable is that the world will see more significant elections, embracing more democratic countries in the world, than I can ever remember.

Africa Americas

Inflection Points Today

Jan 4, 2024

Xi Jinping’s real New Year’s message

By Frederick Kempe

Xi Jinping's New Year's message was more about vulnerability than strength.

China East Asia

Inflection Points Today

Jan 3, 2024

An ugly truth in the Middle East

By Frederick Kempe

As tensions increase with Iran and its proxies in the Red Sea, it’s growing harder for Biden administration officials to avoid an ugly truth.

Conflict Crisis Management

Inflection Points

Dec 13, 2023

Zelenskyy visits the front line that could decide his country’s war

By Frederick Kempe

Should no deal emerge from the US Congress, history will remember Zelenskyy’s visit for all the wrong reasons.

Conflict Politics & Diplomacy

Inflection Points Today

Dec 9, 2023

The private sector’s role in the climate crisis

By Frederick Kempe

This year’s sharply increased level of private-sector engagement could be the game changer to address challenges beyond the capacity of governments alone.

Climate Change & Climate Action Economy & Business

Inflection Points Today

Dec 8, 2023

The crooked road to a better Middle East

By Frederick Kempe

It’s time to connect the dots globally. Before it’s too late, we must build and defend the architecture of the future, whether in Europe (with Ukraine) or in the Middle East. The alternative is to stand by while the forces of the past tear it down.

Crisis Management Economy & Business

Inflection Points Today

Dec 4, 2023

A big idea to address the biggest killer of the climate crisis

By Frederick Kempe

With over seventy thousand delegates and observers at COP28, actions that aim to improve lives—such as insurance programs to support workers in the informal economy, many of them women—deserve notice.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment
Bombing in Gaza seen from southern Israel

Inflection Points

Nov 18, 2023

The best antidote to surging Mideast violence and Iranian extremism? Regional versions of NATO and the EU.

By Frederick Kempe

To bring peace, the moderate, modernizing Arab countries and Israel need to work together to create institutions of collective security and economic development.

Middle East Politics & Diplomacy
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