Category: Content Series

What is going on in Brazil?

Less than a month before the World Cup begins two pillars of society critical to hosting a successful World Cup have initiated a strike: police and public transit officials. The bus strike in Brazil’s largest city began on Tuesday and at least 300,000 commuters have been affected. Traffic was reported to stretch 162 miles on […]

What We’re Reading: May 22

By Garrett Workman

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

TTIP Action: May 20

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

“I want drones!”

By James Hasik

Allies and adversaries will get them, whether the US exports them or not. Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) had a strong reaction this week to the story of Deborah Peter, a young woman visiting the Congress, about the murder of her family by Boko Haram: I want drones, I want something, because they don’t belong on this earth.The congressman from […]

Webcast: Atlantic Council Captains of Industry with Steven F. Gaffney

Please join us on May 22, 2014 from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. for the latest event in the Atlantic Council Captains of Industry series, a discussion with Steven F. Gaffney, Chairman & CEO of DynCorp International, on the role of service contractors in the US and around the world.

Workman Quoted About TTIP in RIA Novosti

By Garrett Workman

RIA Novosti quotes Atlantic Council managing editor of TTIP Action Garrett Workman on Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership:

DARPA versus the Congress

By James Hasik

New payloads for old platforms may be the best we can hope for. At our Disrupting Defense conference last week, DARPA Director Arati Prabakhar expressed some surprise that Pentagon officials have been asking her for radical ways out of their budgetary predicament:      Usually budget pressure translates to incrementalism for R&D because people say ‘what have you done […]