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Jul 23, 2015

VOA Features MEST Event

By Atlantic Council

Voice of America’s International Edition features the Rafik Hariri Center’s Middle East Strategy Task Force event in a discussion on the role of religion in the rise of threatening extremist groups:

Europe After The Vote

Jul 23, 2015

A Strategic Conversation: Interagency Process Reform, the Greek Crisis, and Beyond

By Atlantic Council

On July 14th, the Atlantic Council’s Strategy Initiative hosted a public event to discuss the pertinent issues of interagency process reform, the Greek Crisis, and the Iran nuclear deal. The event also served as the official launch of the Atlantic Council’s partnership with The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

European Union
Greece

Art of Future Warfare

Jul 23, 2015

Forbes Reviews Ghost Fleet

By August Cole

Forbes reviews the novel Ghost Fleet, cowritten by Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole, which addresses the threat of technological vulnerabilities and their role in future wars:

Europe After The Vote

Jul 23, 2015

Sciubba: The Greek Financial Crisis is Making its Migration Crisis Worse

By Jennifer Sciubba

Strategic Foresight Initiative Nonresident Senior Fellow Jennifer D. Sciubba writes for the Washington Post on how strained resources and xenophobia are creating a difficult landscape for migrants arriving in Greece:

Greece
Syria

EconoGraphics

Jul 22, 2015

Has Greece Been Effective at Downsizing Its Public Sector?

By Global Business and Economics

Greece and its EU counterparts made progress last week on negotiations, but some policy makers question whether Greece will truly adopt the measures necessary to recover economic stability.

Economy & Business
Fiscal and Structural Reform

Defense Industrialist

Jul 22, 2015

What’s your face-punched plan?

By James Hasik

Recovery from battlefield surprise requires more than fingers-crossed strategy. Last month, the Pentagon released the 2015 version of its National Military Strategy. As a real Pentagon strategist reminded me, the Pentagon doesn’t really post its real strategy on the Web as a PDF. But even this public relations exercise was disconcerting in its telegraphed inflexibility. The document waxes on about […]

Defense Industry
Missile Defense

Europe After The Vote

Jul 22, 2015

Åslund on Eurozone Influence on Greece Talks

By Anders Aslund

Handelsblatt quotes Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Resident Senior Fellow Anders Åslund on the impact of northern eurozone states on the discussions about resolving the Greek financial crisis: 

Greece

Corporate Strategy Forum

Jul 22, 2015

The Foreign and Defense Policy of Arms Exports to Asia

By THE BRENT SCOWCROFT CENTER ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

On Friday, July 17, 2015, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a conversation on Foreign Defense Policy of Arms Exports to Asia as the latest event of the Corporate Strategy Forum. The event, moderated by the Atlantic Council’s MA and George Lund Fellow Steven Grundman, featured Todd Chapman, principal deputy assistant secretary of […]

Indo-Pacific

Europe After The Vote

Jul 21, 2015

The Greek Debt Crisis—Latest Developments

By Demetrios Papageorgiou

This time last week, Greece faced an ultimatum: enact a laundry list of economic reforms—known as “prior actions”—by July 15 in order to start negotiations on the country’s third financing program in five years, or face expulsion from the nineteen-member currency union. Determined to keep the euro, even in the face of new austerity, the […]

Greece

Art of Future Warfare

Jul 21, 2015

The National Interest Reviews Ghost Fleet

By August Cole

The National Interest reviews the novel Ghost Fleet, cowritten by Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole, which chronicles a hypothetical US war with Russia and China:

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