Category: Dispatches

To boost Venezuela’s economic recovery, the US should lean into Colombia

By Enrique Millán-Mejía

With the right safeguards in place, increased US coordination with Colombia can help boost Venezuela’s reconstruction.

TikTok’s new ownership structure doesn’t solve security concerns for Americans

By Kenton Thibaut

The deal does little to address the systemic challenges of information manipulation, foreign influence, and data exploitation on the platform.

The India–EU trade deal is worth watching, but not overhyping

By Mark Linscott

The newly announced free trade agreement is an important accomplishment, even if it is unlikely to be transformational.

The EU and India are creating a free trade area of two billion people. What’s next?

By Atlantic Council experts

Atlantic Council experts answer five pressing questions about the major trade deal between Brussels and New Delhi announced on Tuesday.

How the Nordic-Baltic states became Europe’s reliable security engine

By Anna Wieslander

Eight Northern European states are acting together early and turning solidarity into capabilities and delivery. 

Taiwan has been a strategic blind spot for South Korea

By Bee Yun Jo

South Korea is beginning to acknowledge that cross-Strait stability is increasingly a foundational element of overall regional security.

Inside the biggest Davos debates (other than Greenland)

By Josh Lipsky, Alisha Chhangani

As the annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland ends, the issues discussed—from tariffs to AI—will continue to play out in all corners of the world.

Resolving the Greenland challenge through shared responsibility

Focusing on shared responsibility through shared sovereignty would be to the mutual benefit of the United States, Denmark, Greenland, and NATO.

Time matters: Why Europe needs Ukrainian defense innovation

By Oleksiy Honcharuk

For Europe to gain genuine defense autonomy, it will need to combine the continent’s capital with Ukraine’s speed and military innovation.

What Trump could do next in Iran

By Nate Swanson

As a US carrier strike group nears the Persian Gulf, what options does US President Donald Trump have to strike against the Iranian regime?