Category: Content Series

Who Will Pay for Greece?

By Julian Lindley-French

“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit”, Aristotle once famously wrote. He could have been talking of Greece today.

The Cyber 9/12 Project

On December 8, the Atlantic Council and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) hosted an all-day, scenario-driven, interactive conference to discuss the day-after response to a transatlantic cyber incident held at the International Spy Museum. During off-the-record panel sessions, representatives from various sectors, including US and foreign governments, and information and communication technology companies, discussed the […]

What Next for Greece After No-Confidence Vote?

By Marios Efthymiopoulos

In a period of fiscal and social turmoil, the Greek government has decided to risk its survival and the economic stability of Europe on a public referendum over the details of the most recent offer by the leaders of the Eurozone to bail out of Greece from its fiscal destruction. As a result, is it […]

Greece’s Coin Flip

By James Joyner

Many of us predicted that investor euphoria over Thursday’s Eurozone deal would soon fade. But few thought it would explode this soon.

Europe’s Imperative: Save Greece, Save Itself

By Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg

Effective crisis resolution tragically requires a dynamic and subtle management of seemingly disparate objectives: building character versus building confidence. And “tragically” is the right adverb, because the European actors–Germany on one side, and most of Europe on the other–are clashing to destructive effect in negotiating these tradeoffs. Germany is intent on building “character” among the […]

Implementation of the ‘Canada First’ Defence Strategy in the Americas

By Jason Harmala

On September 23, the Atlantic Council’s International Security Program held a discussion with Lieutenant-General Walter Semianiw.

Berlin 1961: Kennedy’s Showdown at Checkpoint Charlie

By Frederick Kempe

There had not been a more perilous moment in the Cold War.  Undaunted by the damp, dangerous night, Berliners gathered on the narrow side streets opening up onto Checkpoint Charlie. The next morning’s newspapers would estimate their numbers at about five hundred, a considerable crowd considering that they might have been witnesses to the first […]