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100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Mar 28, 2021

#68: Establish a D-10 Steering Committee

By: Ash Jain What is the kernel of the issue? The rules-based democratic order—led by the United States and its allies—faces a daunting set of challenges, from the rise of authoritarianism to disruptive technologies to climate change. Russia and China, in particular, are seeking to disrupt the international system and establish their own respective spheres […]

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Mar 27, 2021

#67: Recognize that Ideology Shapes Strategic Competition with China

By: Barry Pavel, Matthew Kroenig, and Jeffrey Cimmino What is the kernel of the issue? There is an ongoing debate among foreign policy scholars and practitioners regarding the role ideology should play in strategic competition with China. Some argue that China poses a threat to the United States strictly because of its growing power; others […]

Fast Thinking

Mar 26, 2021

FAST THINKING: A glimpse into our digital future at the latest tech hearing on Capitol Hill

By Atlantic Council

This wasn’t just another tech hearing. It was the first since the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. It was focused on extremism and misinformation. And our team at the Digital Forensic Research Lab, which is all over these issues, tells us that lawmakers came at their questioning in a new way that offers insight into what our digital future could look like.

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100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Mar 26, 2021

#66: Brand the Quad as an “Asian Geico,” not an “Asian NATO”

By: Shaun Ee What is the kernel of the issue? The Quad is going broad, as Australia, India, Japan, and the US team up on vaccines, tech supply chains, climate change, and more. This is a welcome update to the security architecture in Asia, but could use a unifying framework—both for a sense of direction, […]

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Mar 26, 2021

Transcript: After two centuries, the US-Colombia relationship is entering a ‘new chapter’

By Atlantic Council

Colombian President Iván Duque, US Senator Roy Blunt, and US Senator Benjamin Cardin reflected on the two-hundred-year US-Colombia relationship and discussed the United States' role in helping COVID-19 and migration strategies across Latin America.

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Aviso LatAm: COVID-19

Mar 26, 2021

Aviso LatAm: COVID-19 March 26, 2021

The Venezuelan regime and the opposition have reached an agreement to purchase and distribute COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX mechanism.

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Mar 25, 2021

#65: Create a Federal Anticipatory Governance Framework

By: Anca Agachi What is the kernel of the issue? With COVID-19, the US has irrevocably entered a much more turbulent security environment featuring permanent disruption, complexity of threats, and accelerated secondary and tertiary consequences. Unless it focuses on identifying risks early or even preventing them, the US will be forced into a never-ending cycle […]

Fast Thinking

Mar 25, 2021

FAST THINKING: North Korean missiles are back

By Atlantic Council

North Korea never waits long to greet a new US president with a challenge, and Biden now has his in the form of projectiles landing off the coast of Japan. What does it all mean?

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Conflict, Risk, and Tech

Mar 24, 2021

How to reverse three decades of escalating cyber conflict

By Jason Healey and Robert Jervis

Cyber conflict has not yet escalated from a fight inside cyberspace to a more traditional armed attack because of cyberspace. In part, this is because countries understand there are some tacit upper limits to escalation above which the response from the offended country will be war. Unfortunately, this happy state may not last.

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Mar 24, 2021

#AlertaVenezuela: March 24, 2021

By Atlantic Council's DFRLab

Maduro, blaming Colomiba and Venezuelans returning from there for the spread of COVID-19, has called for a "radical quarantine" over two weeks.

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