Category: Content Series

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Experts

Content

In the News

Dec 15, 2016

Albright and Hadley Join the Diane Rehm Show to Discuss US Foreign Policy in the Middle East

By Madeleine Albright and Stephen Hadley

Listen to the full interview here.

Governance and Cybersecurity

Dec 14, 2016

Cyber Statecraft Initiative Event on the President’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity

By Cyber Statecraft Initiative

Read the full article here.

Emerging Defense Challenges

Dec 12, 2016

Hasik Quoted by the Wall Street Journal on the Trump Administration and the Defense Industry

By James Hasik

Read the full article here.

Defense Industry Security & Defense
European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi at a press conference on December 8

EUSource

Dec 9, 2016

Uncertainty in Italy after referendum and Renzi resignation

By Future Europe Initiative

THIS WEEK’S KEY TAKE-AWAYS Future of Italian banks after referendum in limbo German company caught in crosshairs of US-China spat EU accuses US of violating Open Skies agreement European Central Bank opts for longer but lower QE

Economy & Business Elections

Defense Industrialist

Dec 8, 2016

Negotiating with the deal-guy-in-chief

By James Hasik

On surviving those UCAs, finding that $125 billion, and becoming the monopsonist’s apprentice. The mood at the Aerospace Industries Association luncheon this week, Tony Bertuca reported for Inside Defense, was grim. As AIA CEO Dave Melcher put it, it’s a “relatively new phenomenon” for the president-elect to call out the country’s largest aerospace company on a big program like the new Air […]

Defense Industry Economy & Business

Defense Industrialist

Dec 6, 2016

Innovation before scale

By Steve Grundman, James Hasik

A better business model for transnational armaments cooperation The Royal United Services Institution has just published in RUSI Journal (vol. 161, no. 5, October–November 2016) the latest long essay of the Defense Industrialist project of the Atlantic Council. The abstract encapsulates our argument:     The traditional business model of transnational cooperation in armaments development and production is not […]

Defense Industry Economy & Business

Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series

Dec 6, 2016

A measured US strategy for the new Africa

By Dr. J. Peter Pham

Africa’s story is increasingly one of economic dynamism that is driven, in part, by political reform and improvements in governance. But, there are also very real security, humanitarian, and developmental challenges that remain to be confronted. The United States has a stake in helping to tackle these challenges, not least because it is in its own national interest to do so.

Africa East Africa

In the News

Dec 5, 2016

Atlantic Council’s Middle East Strategy Task Force Featured in Lawfare

By Atlantic Council

Read the full article here.

In the News

Dec 4, 2016

Grand Joins Iowa Public Radio to Discuss Issues Facing Trump in the Middle East

By Stephen Grand

Read the full article here.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Dec 2, 2016

The Gambia Votes: A Rare Victory for Democracy in Africa?

By Kelsey Lilley

The results from The Gambia’s presidential election, which pitted opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) candidate Adama Barrow against longtime president, Yahya Jammeh, made history as they trickled in late at night on December 1. The small West African country, bound on three sides by Senegal, has been ruled for more than two decades by the […]

Africa