Category: Dispatches

What new tariffs would mean for US-Brazil trade

By Valentina Sader, Ignacio Albe

The US is proposing a new 25 percent tariff on various Brazilian products. That's only the latest development in what has been a very up-and-down year for US-Brazil trade.

Eleven takeaways from the NATO Summit in Ankara 

By Atlantic Council experts

Atlantic Council experts break down the most important developments coming out of the Ankara summit.

The collapse of Cuba’s state-run economy is years in the making

By Jason Marczak, María Fernanda Bozmoski, Ignacio Albe

Six charts reveal the extent of the Caribbean island’s economic fall under the communist regime.

NATO can emerge from the Ankara summit stronger. Here’s how.

By Matthew Kroenig, Torrey Taussig

By taking four specific steps, allies can have a successful summit and prove the Alliance is no “paper tiger.”

NATO’s new Arctic presence shows that European allies are stepping up

By Jason C. Moyer

The Alliance is increasingly focused on the Arctic through exercises and capacity-building, but not yet with a unified strategy.

More European NATO allies should step up help to Ukraine through PURL

By Matt Trunkey

France, Italy, Turkey, Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia each have an opportunity at the upcoming NATO Summit to show they are stepping up.

‘What America means to me’: Global perspectives on the country’s 250th anniversary

By Atlantic Council experts

Atlantic Council fellows and staff not from (or not originally from) the United States share their reflections on the US semiquincentennial.

How NATO can strengthen the transatlantic defense industrial base in Ankara and beyond

By Stephen Tankel

It is critical to ensure that US and European efforts to strengthen their respective defense industrial bases are reinforcing and mutually beneficial.

Europe should take the long bet on the US and the transatlantic security relationship

By Ian Brzezinski, Philippe Dickinson

In Ankara, European leaders must seize the opportunity to reinforce the long-term foundations of the Alliance.

Civilian infrastructure is now a strategic target. NATO must adapt to protect it.

Allies must preserve the ability to move, reinforce, sustain, communicate, mobilize, and, if necessary, fight under conditions of disruption.