Category: Content Series

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Experts

Fellow

Courtney Spivey Urschel

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Human Rights Middle East

Fellow

Godfrey Odongo

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Africa East Africa

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
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Content

Freedom and Prosperity Around the World

Apr 20, 2026

Institutional architecture and prosperity: What lies beneath the aggregate score

By Ignacio Campomanes, Nina Dannaoui-Johnson, Annie (Yu-Lin) Lee, James Mazzarella

Institutional strength drives prosperity, but aggregate scores can hide key differences—what ultimately shapes development outcomes is how political, legal, and economic systems interact.

Freedom and Prosperity Political Reform

Strategic Insights Memo

Apr 20, 2026

A US tech agenda focused on Latin America to outcompete China

By Samantha Wong, Ginger Matchett, Peter Engelke

Insights from on the ground in Colombia, where the United States and China's competition for influence is playing out in the tech sector, among other places. 

Artificial Intelligence China

Balkans Debrief

Apr 17, 2026

Is Hungary’s Influence in the Balkans Over With Orban? A Debrief with Peter Kreko

Europe Center Senior Fellow Ilva Tare sits down with Péter Krekó to discuss Hungary's future approach to the Western Balkans after Viktor Orbán's defeat.

Democratic Transitions Elections

Fast Thinking

Apr 12, 2026

Fast Thinking: Orbán’s out in Hungary. Now what? 

By The Atlantic Council

In elections on Sunday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party lost to Péter Magyar and his Tisza party in a landslide.

Europe & Eurasia Hungary

Fast Thinking

Apr 8, 2026

What to make of the Iran war cease-fire 

By Atlantic Council

Our experts assess what Washington and Tehran agreed to in the newly announced two-week cease-fire and whether it is likely to work.

Conflict Iran

Report

Apr 8, 2026

Making aid work in the new geopolitical era will be an uphill battle

By Stefan Dercon

Development aid requires local political commitment, careful project selection, and long-term focus, or it can worsen the problems it seeks to solve. When aid becomes a pawn of geopolitical competition, those conditions for effective aid become more elusive.

Economy & Business Freedom and Prosperity

Eye on Europe's elections

Apr 6, 2026

Your primer on the Hungarian National Assembly elections

By Atlantic Council experts

An electoral defeat for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán could reshape Hungary’s domestic political trajectory and the country’s relations with the rest of Europe.

Elections Hungary

Report

Apr 6, 2026

Sri Lanka needs a development plan, not just a recovery narrative

By Nishan de Mel

Sri Lanka's trajectory is marked by volatility rather than steady progress. Gains in political rights, economic openness, and security proved episodic rather than transformative when not supported by a credible rule of law. Breaking from cycles of recovery and crisis requires institutional renewal, social reconciliation, and professional governance.

Fiscal and Structural Reform Inclusive Growth

Issue Brief

Mar 31, 2026

Securing cloud infrastructure for AI

By Sara Ann Brackett

With AI raising the stakes of cloud security and key cybersecurity institutions weakened or dissolved, this brief outlines needed policy steps to promote transparency and accountability across the cloud ecosystem.

Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity

Freedom and Prosperity Around the World

Mar 30, 2026

How the Dominican Republic can escape the ‘middle-income trap’

By Marino Auffant

Over three decades, the Dominican Republic has consolidated stable electoral competition and built a diversified, open economy delivering the fastest GDP growth in Latin America. To escape the middle-income trap, the country must now confront deferred structural reforms—especially in education, institutional effectiveness, and fiscal capacity—turning stability into sustained convergence.

Fiscal and Structural Reform Latin America
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Events

Online Event Tue, September 22, 2026 • 3:15 pm ET

Pfizer’s Albert Bourla on AI, health, and innovation in a changing world

AN AC FRONT PAGE EVENT—Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla discusses how artificial intelligence is reshaping drug discovery and healthcare and outlines the data, policy, and regulatory frameworks needed to translate technological advances into better health outcomes.
Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity