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New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2015

Al-Qaeda Affiliate Gains from Yemen Crisis

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Al-Qaeda in the Arabia Peninsula (AQAP) has emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the crisis in Yemen where its traditional enemies—Saudi Arabia and Zaydi Shia Houthi rebels—are preoccupied in a war against each other. “AQAP is benefitting from the chaos and the collapse of the Yemeni state,” Nabeel Khoury, a Nonresident Senior Fellow […]

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New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2015

Return to Diplomacy ‘Best Bet’ for Yemen

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Atlantic Council’s Nabeel Khoury discusses crisis in Yemen A quick return to diplomacy is the best bet for Yemen, says Nabeel Khoury, a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. Khoury spoke in an interview with the New Atlanticist’s Ashish Kumar Sen. Excerpts below:

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Next Generation Project

Apr 7, 2015

Next Generation Project Summary

New Voices for a Stronger US-German Relationship The US-German Next Generation Project is a project the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Relations Program launched in February 2015 to strengthen the US-German relationship from a “next generation” perspective. The project has three components: 1) the Next Generation Network, 2) the Next Generation Fellows and 3) the Next Generation report. The […]

Emerging Defense Challenges

Apr 5, 2015

Grundman on the Iran Nuclear Deal

By Steven Grundman

M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges Steven Grundman joins Defense News with Vago Muradian to discuss the Iran nuclear deal:

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Corporate Strategy Forum

Apr 3, 2015

Rafales, Not Rules

By James Hasik

While Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon and the White House make policy, the Élysée Palace makes sales. King Abdullah wants drones, and 23 US congressmen want to loan Jordan some American Predators for the duration of the war. The Emirates want drones, and my colleague Bilal Saab told the Beirut Daily Star that industry there is getting quite capable making […]

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Defense Industrialist

Apr 1, 2015

What Does Shay Assad Mean by “Fair Price”?

By James Hasik

Pentagon pricing policy should aim for long-term value, not an economically intractable concept. Shay Assad, the Pentagon’s director of pricing policy, has had over his tenure a tense relationship with industry. At a private meeting at the Aerospace Industries Association last week, and in an interview with Reuters this week, Assad insisted that his accountants haven’t been always and everywhere […]

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Regional Security Initiative

Apr 1, 2015

Brainstorming the Gulf: Innovation and the knowledge economy in the GCC

By Peter Engelke

In Brainstorming the Gulf: Innovation and the Knowledge Economy in the GCC, the report's author, Peter Engelke, Senior Fellow for the Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative in the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, highlights the successes that Gulf states have enjoyed to date and addresses the major hurdles to sustaining and expanding these successes.

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Europe After The Vote

Mar 31, 2015

Montanino on Greece Leaving the Euro

By Andrea Montanino

German-language Zeit Online quotes Global Business and Economics Program Director Andrea Montanino on whether Greece will leave the euro and if the euro can survive Greece’s exit:

Defense Industrialist

Mar 31, 2015

Force Structure That’s Too Big to Fail?

By James Hasik

Against more challenging adversaries, temper enthusiasm for returns to scale. Ever since I was a midshipman—way back under a Navy Secretary named Lehman—pundits, analysts, and strategists have been wondering whether the US Navy’s supercarriers are too big. And so again in 2015. The new Ford-class ships are a few billion more expensive than their Nimitz predecessors, and Senate […]

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Defense Industrialist

Mar 27, 2015

TXT Loves Helos; UTC Not So Much

By James Hasik

What accounts for two multi-industrial companies’ differing views of the attractiveness of similar subsidiaries? I do not own shares in Sikorsky. None of my friends own shares in Sikorsky. That’s because, since 1929, United Technologies Corporation has in effect owned all the shares in Sikorsky. Indeed, the other four of the world’s five largest helicopter manufacturers are […]

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