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Sep 12, 2013

Big Data is changing your world… more than you know

By Banning Garrett

In the latest FutureScape brief from the Atlantic Council's Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI) at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, SFI’s Senior Fellow for Innovation and Global Trends Banning Garrett assesses the ubiquity of big data and the opportunities and risks it poses to our lives.

Internet
Technology & Innovation

Issue Brief

Sep 9, 2013

Is NATO Set to Go on Standby?

By Karl-Heinz Kamp

In the most recent Transatlantic Security Initiative issue brief, entitled “Is NATO Set to Go on Standby?” Research Director at the NATO Defense College Karl-Heinz Kamp asks whether NATO will maintain strategic relevance after withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2014.The author argues that when NATO withdraws from Afghanistan in 2014, it has the opportunity to focus once […]

NATO
Security & Defense

Issue Brief

Sep 3, 2013

Universal Data Fusion: Enabling Cost-effective US/Russia/NATO Cooperative Missile Defense

By Patrick O'Reilly

As the proliferation of more capable missiles that threaten regional populations, governments, and commerce continues over the twenty-first century, so does the need to counter and disincentivize this proliferation with effective and affordable regional missile defenses. Missile defense systems are among the most expensive military capabilities, but author Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, USA (Ret.), a […]

Missile Defense
Security & Defense

Issue Brief

Aug 29, 2013

The Libyan economy after the revolution: Still no clear vision

By Mohsin Khan and Karim Mezran

In the latest issue brief from the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center, authors Mohsin Khan and Karim Mezran evaluate the Libyan economy and progress since popular uprisings in February 2011 and the eventual ouster of the Muammar Qaddafi regime. Virtually all economic activity, especially oil production (the mainstay of the Libyan economy) witnessed a dramatic […]

Libya

Issue Brief

Aug 12, 2013

The Israeli experience in missile defense: Lessons for NATO

By Jean-Loup Samaan and Guillaume Lasconjarias

Jean-Loup Samaan and Guillaume Lasconjarias, research fellows at the NATO Defense College in Italy, outline in this issue brief for the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security what NATO can learn from the Israeli experience in missile defense. Samaan and Lasconjarias identify five domains where Israel’s missile defense experience may offer both helpful lessons and […]

Israel
Missile Defense

Issue Brief

Aug 5, 2013

Jordan’s youth: Avenues for activism

By Danya Greenfield

In the latest issue brief from the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center, “Jordan’s Youth: Avenues for Activism,” author Danya Greenfield evaluates the role of Jordanian youth in political activism, and contends that youth will ultimately take the helm of political change given Jordan’s current political and economic climate. While Jordanians are focused on mounting pressures […]

Issue Brief

Jul 29, 2013

Mutually Assured Stability: Establishing US-Russia Security Relations for a New Century

By Celeste Wallander

This Strategic Analysis issue brief, authored by Celeste Wallander, argues that the Mutually Assured Destruction concept which has dominated US-Russian security relations since the outset of the Cold War is neither an adequate nor cost-effective strategy to sustain stability in the twenty-first century. The optimal strategy for the United States and Russia is instead Mutually […]

Russia
United States and Canada

Issue Brief

Jul 29, 2013

Iran: How a third tier cyber power can still threaten the United States

By Barbara Slavin and Jason Healey

The Atlantic Council’s Iran Task Force and Cyber Statecraft Initiative have colaunched a new issue brief entitled “Iran: How a Third Tier Cyber Power Can Still Threaten the United States.” Written by South Asia Center Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin and Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey, the brief evaluates Iran’s cyber warfare capabilities and the […]

Cybersecurity
Iran

Issue Brief

Jul 24, 2013

A world run on algorithms?

By Banning Garrett

In the latest FutureScape brief from the Atlantic Council's Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI) at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, SFI’s Senior Fellow for Innovation and Global Trends, Banning Garrett, assesses how algorithms now run much of our lives and in the future will be increasingly ubiquitous in ever more aspects of our personal and work life.

Technology & Innovation

Issue Brief

Jul 15, 2013

Rising robotics and the Third Industrial Revolution

By Robert A. Manning

In the latest FutureScape brief from the Atlantic Council's Strategic Foresight Initiative in the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Senior Fellow Robert A. Manning assesses the onset of the era of robotics, one component of a technological transformation that is reshaping the world.

Resilience & Society
Technology & Innovation
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