Category: Content Series

Parent for a set of category taxonomy terms to aggregate content that may span other taxonomy terms/types and be part of a recurring topic or series (e.g. content related to a particular election)

Experts

Fellow

Courtney Spivey Urschel

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Human Rights Middle East

Fellow

Priya Pillai

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Africa Conflict

Fellow

Joshua Hotvet

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Rolando Mattar

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Tom Wotka

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Kalle Meehan

Women Leader in Energy and Climate Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment
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Content

Regional Security Initiative

Aug 18, 2014

Middle East 2020: Shaped by or shaper of global trends?

By The Atlantic Council

In his latest report, Middle East 2020: Shaped By or Shaper of Global Trends,Mathew Burrows, director of the Strategic Foresight Initiative in the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, addresses the possible medium- and long-term consequences of the ongoing developments in the region and the various factors driving the monumental changes.

Middle East

Defense Industrialist

Aug 15, 2014

Agile, or Fragile?

By James Hasik

The USAF’s strategy sounds better than its plans.   In Real Clear Defense, my Atlantic Council colleague Alex Ward recently endorsed the US Air Force’s concept of strategic agility as what’s needed for the service “to employ new technologies, better deal with increasingly powerful state and non-state actors, and adapt operations to new environments over the next thirty years.” In its recently published […]

Defense Industrialist

Aug 13, 2014

Divesting the MRAP

By James Hasik

    BAE’s planned sale of Land Systems South Africa reminds us that not just companies, but countries, can reconstitute some industrial capabilities when needed.   As was widely reported on Monday, BAE Systems and investment firm DGD are selling their Land Systems South Africa business to state-owned Denel for (US) $80 million. As Bloomberg Business Week noted, LSSA does make more […]

Iraq

Global Trade And The Americas

Aug 12, 2014

Natural Gas: A New Hope for TPP

By Katelyn Lamson

Though squabbles over automobiles and agricultural products appear to have stalled negotiations for the time being, all hope for a deal is far from lost. Indeed, there is one issue that might prove the lynchpin of concluding negotiations: energy. A free trade agreement that includes an element of national treatment of liquefied natural gas has […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

Global Trade And The Americas

Aug 12, 2014

Natural Gas: A New Hope for TPP

By Katelyn Lamson

Though squabbles over automobiles and agricultural products appear to have stalled negotiations for the time being, all hope for a deal is far from lost. Indeed, there is one issue that might prove the lynchpin of concluding negotiations: energy. A free trade agreement that includes an element of national treatment of liquefied natural gas has […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

Defense Industrialist

Aug 12, 2014

QDR, then NDP: Serially Avoiding Hard Choices

By James Hasik

  The National Defense Panel Wants More Money for Defense. That’s Just Not Happening. At the end of July, the congressionally-mandated National Defense Panel released its assessment of 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review QDR), with the inspiring title Ensuring a Strong US Defense for the Future. The panel, hosted by the US Institute for Peace, was composed of an august group of former generals, […]

LatAmSource

Aug 11, 2014

Brazil’s Lasting World Cup Legacy

By Ambassador Mauro Vieira

In the run-up to the FIFA World Cup, Brazil had to endure a spate of negative reporting and doomsday-style predictions about its capacity to deliver a successful tournament.  Moreover, articles on perceived failures in the preparation for the event stretched the pessimism even further, to the point of questioning the World Cup legacy in the […]

Brazil

Global Trade And The Americas

Aug 6, 2014

What is causing the TPP bottleneck? A View from Japan

By Katelyn Lamson

A year after Japan enthusiastically joined Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, a comprehensive agreement is still nowhere in sight. From the Japanese perspective, the gridlock appears to be related to disagreements between Japan and the United States over agriculture and automobiles. This seems puzzling at first glance, given that both countries’ leaders have spoken eloquently about […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

LatAmSource

Aug 4, 2014

Why We Need a New Alliance Between Workers and Employers

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny

“Identity, not ideology, is moving the world.” So argued commentator Fareed Zakaria in a recent Washington Post column. Zakaria was referring to political identities, and the fading affiliations citizens have for traditional political groupings like parties, unions, or civic associations. A parallel can be drawn here to the modern workforce. With an increasing volatile economy, […]

Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Oct., 11, 2013

Europe After The Vote

Aug 1, 2014

Special Summit Series: Greece and NATO

By Constantine A. Pagedas

Within its first few years of existence, NATO experienced its initial wave of expansion in 1952 when Greece and Turkey joined the alliance.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
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