Category: Content Series

Brummer Speaks at EU Financial Services Summit

By Chris Brummer

Global Business and Economics Program C. Boyden Grey Fellow Chris Brummer served as a keynote speaker for the European Financial Services Conference, a gathering of more than 400 delegates at the ING Auditorium in Brussels hosted by Assonime, Barclays, and Kreab Gavin Anderson.

Andrés Bello and Protests: What this Means for Venezuela’s Future

By Victor Salcedo

Andrés Bello, eighteenth century Venezuelan philosopher and Simón Bolívar’s teacher, said that “only the unity of the people and the solidarity of its leaders guarantee the greatness of nations.” This is a quote that should be remembered in today’s Venezuela, where the country is divided and on the slow, painful path of irreversible implosion without […]

UK, EU, and US Regulators and Diplomats Discuss Transatlantic Regulatory Reforms and TTIP

Financial services should be included in the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the United States and the European Union (EU), but a major obstacle remains the opposition of the US Treasury, a group of British and other European financial experts asserted at a recent London event. The gathering, cosponsored by the […]

Better Buying Power at Work: Technical Data for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle

By James Hasik

The economics of intellectual property rights reveals the managerial challenge of military procurement. In promulgating his ‘Better Buying Power’ (BBP) initiative back in September 2010, Ashton Carter directed the Pentagon’s program managers to routinely consider purchasing technical data packages (TDPs) and associated design licenses to new weapon systems. With TDPs in their possession, program managers hold the option for […]

The Danger of Divergence: Discussion of Brussels, EU Reforms at the European Parliament

The United States and the European Union must consider not only the transatlantic but the global market if their joint financial reform efforts are to succeed, argued experts from the European Commission, the private sector, the media, and academia at a Brussels event cosponsored by the Atlantic Council, Thomson Reuters, and TheCityUK. The February 12th, […]

Next Steps: How President Obama Should Advance US-Cuba Relations

By Ted Piccone

In 2009, President Obama began relaxing tough sanctions on Cuba, expanding the free flow of people and remittances and planting the seeds of a new paradigm for U.S.-Cuba relations – one that looks beyond the outdated Cold War-era approach that has been employed for so long.

The Beginning of the End

By Pedro Freyre and Matthew Aho

The results of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center poll on Americans’ attitudes on U.S.–Cuba relations can be interpreted in only one way: the tide of U. S. public opinion has turned away from isolation and toward engagement and normalization.

Prospects of Relationship between Cuba and the United States

By Miriam Leiva

(translated from Spanish) Cuba has been used in the confrontation with the United States to isolate Cubans from the outside world, justify the failures of the plans executed by the will of Fidel Castro , violate the rights and suppress any different opinion than that authorized by the government.