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Senior Legal & Policy Advisor, China Lead

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

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Elise Baker

Senior Staff Lawyer, Strategic Litigation Project

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Civil Society Extremism

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Vik Bakshi

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment

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Denver Barrows 

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment

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Allison Bennett Irion

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

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Content

Cyber 9/12 Project

Mar 14, 2016

Atlantic Council Cyber Statecraft Initiative Concludes Fourth Annual Student Cyber-Policy Competition

By Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council’s fourth annual Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge was held on March 11-12 at American University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC. Forty teams competed to offer their best national-security policy prescriptions for combating evolving cyber conflict scenarios.

Cybersecurity

Cyber 9/12 Project

Mar 12, 2016

Homeland Security Blog Features Cyber 9/12 Challenge

By Atlantic Council

Read the full article here.

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

In the News

Mar 11, 2016

Middle East Strategy Task Force Report Featured in Brookings Institute Blog

By Atlantic Council

Read the full article here.

Middle East

Defense Industrialist

Mar 10, 2016

A full-contact sport

By James Hasik

Transferring military technology takes time, teams, and money—for now. Technology transfer and national security—everyone talks about it, and most everyone needs it. This week the Atlantic Council hosted a discussion with some European diplomats on just how to make it happen, and afterwards, we jotted down some further thoughts. Transferring or co-developing technologies effectively demands […]

Defense Industry
Defense Technologies

Press Release

Mar 8, 2016

President Obama Nominates Chris Brummer to Commodity Futures Trading Commission

By Atlantic Council

WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama announced Thursday his intent to nominate Chris Brummer, C. Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Finance and Growth for the Atlantic Council’s Global Business and Economics Program and Project Director and Founder of the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Finance Initiative, as a Commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

In the News

Mar 8, 2016

Albright Joins Al Arabiya to Discuss the Middle East Strategy Task Force Trip to the Middle East

By Madeleine Albright

Watch the full interview here.

Middle East

In the News

Mar 8, 2016

Albright and Hadley Join Sky News Arabia to Discuss the Middle East Strategy Task Force Trip to the Region

By Madeleine Albright and Steve Hadley

Watch the full interview here.

Middle East

In the News

Mar 8, 2016

Albright Joins Al Arabiya (English) to Discuss the Middle East Strategy Task Force Trip to the Middle East

By Madeleine Albright

Watch the full interview here.

Middle East

Defense Industrialist

Mar 5, 2016

The defense economics of John McCain, Part 2

By James Hasik

How more of “Economics 101” would slowly restructure the US armed forces Senator John McCain has a penchant for what the late Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live might have called Simple Caveman Economics. As I review the pronouncements from his perch at the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain seems to hew markedly to four […]

Defense Industry
Economy & Business

Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series

Mar 4, 2016

A US strategy for sustainable energy security

By Scowcroft Center

On Friday, March 4, 2016 from 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. the Strategy Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security released its second Atlantic Council Strategy Paper, “A US Strategy for Sustainable Energy Security.” The paper, written by the Atlantic Council’s Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative Director David Koranyi and which features a […]

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Events

Public Event Thu, February 12, 2026 • 11:00 am ET

Congressman John Moolenaar on deterring aggression against Taiwan

AN #ACFRONTPAGE EVENT—Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, discusses how the United States and Taiwan can strengthen deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.
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