Category: Dispatches

The Atlantic Council’s greatest hits of 2025

By Frederick Kempe

These articles, reports, initiatives, and convenings represent the Atlantic Council at its most relevant and preeminent.

Don’t solve the power reliability crisis by creating an affordability crisis

By Frank Willey

While energy reliability is critical, transmission planners and government entities must also prioritize cost-effectiveness.

US strategy is leading to a Europe squeezed from the east and the west

By Anna Wieslander

The European Union is caught between a revisionist Russia and a United States that seems ready to divide the world into spheres of influence.

By the numbers: The global economy in 2025

By GeoEconomics Center experts

Our GeoEconomics experts break down the numbers that defined the global economy in 2025.

What Trump’s Venezuela oil blockade means for Maduro and the world

By Atlantic Council experts

Atlantic Council experts react to news that the US military would soon impose a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into or out of Venezuela.

Your expert guide to the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act

By Atlantic Council experts

As the Senate sends the annual defense policy bill to the president's desk, Atlantic Council experts dig into the details.

Welcome to Dispatches

By John Cookson

Atlantic Council experts provide daily insight from around the globe on the world’s most pressing policy issues.

Europe’s battle over Russia’s blocked assets is nearing its endgame

By Charles Lichfield

EU heads of state and government meet this week to discuss and vote on a “reparations loan” plan that would use blocked Russian assets to aid Ukraine.

As the US, Ukraine, and Europe talk of peace, Russia still thinks only of surrender

By John E. Herbst

As US and European officials work with Kyiv to sort out security guarantees and other elements of a potential deal, Moscow continues its obstinance.

How Europe can strengthen its own defenses and rebalance transatlantic relations

Europe should advance a new security architecture aimed at strengthening its own defense while continuing to cooperate with the United States in areas of mutual interest.