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Europe After The Vote

Jul 10, 2015

Gramer and Rizzo: Five Reasons NATO Fears a Grexit

By Robbie Gramer and Rachel Rizzo

Transatlantic Security Initiative Assistant Director Robbie Gramer and Brent Scowcroft Center Program Assistant Rachel Rizzo write for Politico Europe on why Putin would receive a major boost from Greece leaving the eurozone:

Greece
NATO

Middle East Strategy Task Force

Jul 10, 2015

#CounteringISISpropaganda

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Web-savvy extremists dominate discourse on social media Web-savvy extremists belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and their online cohort of supporters dominate the conversation on Twitter leaving little hope for the success of US efforts to counter that propaganda, according to a former State Department official. “ISIS has created, using this […]

Defense Industrialist

Jul 10, 2015

Selling Sikorsky—updated

By James Hasik

A Bell-Sikorsky combination could be too big for the Pentagon to handle. Bidding for Sikorsky, Reuters reports, rests now with Lockheed Martin and Textron. As noted here a few weeks ago, the tax implications remain daunting for United Technologies, particularly now that Textron’s proposed Reverse Morris Trust has elicited no interest. Spinoff does remain in […]

Defense Industry
Security & Defense

Europe After The Vote

Jul 10, 2015

Slavin Moderates Issues in the News

By Barbara Slavin

South Asia Center Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin joins Voice Of America’s Issues in the News to moderate a discussion on the Greek crisis, the Iran nuclear deal, and the US strategy to combat ISIS:

Greece
Iran

Europe After The Vote

Jul 9, 2015

Every Effort Being Made to Avoid Grexit, says European Commission’s Dombrovskis

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Official says Greece needs to be credible partner to avoid Eurozone exit Every effort is being made to keep Greece in the Eurozone, but the Greek government has to show that it can be a genuine partner by presenting a credible reform proposal in its bid to secure a bailout, a senior European Commission official […]

Europe & Eurasia
European Union

Europe After The Vote

Jul 9, 2015

Financial Times Highlights Atlantic Council Conference Call on Greece

By Atlantic Council

Financial Times quotes European Commissioner for the Euro and Social Dialogue Valdis Dombrovskis from an Atlantic Council conference call to discuss the Greek debt crisis:

Greece

Art of Future Warfare

Jul 9, 2015

Cole: The Reality of Cyberwar

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for Politico about why World War III would be unlike any other conflict:

China
Cybersecurity

Art of Future Warfare

Jul 8, 2015

How Will World War III be Fought?

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On Tuesday, July 7, the Atlantic Council hosted a panel continuing the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s series, Art of Future Warfare. The panel entitled “How to Write and Fight World War III” surrounded the newly released book Ghost Fleet and its implications in predicting a future great war. The panelists include coauthors Peter […]

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

Event Recap

Jul 8, 2015

Atlantic Council Co-Sponsors Conference on Extraterritoriality in Financial Regulation

By Chris Lyon

On June 26, the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Finance Initiative co-sponsored a conference concerning the extraterritoriality organized by Oxford University Press’s Journal of Financial Regulation at Georgetown Law. Regulators, diplomats, lawyers and academics met for a three panel series of papers, followed by regulatory commentary, on a variety of issues including: mutual recognition, economic diplomacy, sanctions, […]

Next Generation Project

Jul 7, 2015

Next Phase

In the next phase of the US-German Next Generation Project, the Next Generation Fellows will focus on publicizing and expanding on the recommendations in “Through a New Prism” and make use of the Next Generation Network to continue to foster debate on how to strengthen the US-German relationship.

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