Securing Northern Europe: Toward a comprehensive approach

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Securing Northern Europe: Toward a comprehensive approach

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Securing Northern Europe: Toward a comprehensive approach

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Issue Brief

Sep 20, 2019

Securing Northern Europe: Toward a comprehensive approach

By Anna Wieslander and Elin Schiffer

As Northern Europe finds itself on the front line of systemic great-power competition it has the consider three main challenges: an assertive Russia, changing dynamics in the transatlantic link and the development of a European defense. This present a unique window of opportunity to develop a comprehensive regional approach, bringing together the Baltic Sea, the North Atlantic and the Arctic.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

Issue Brief

Sep 19, 2019

Secondary sanctions’ implications and the transatlantic relationship

By Samantha Sultoon & Justine Walker

The term secondary sanctions provokes strong reactions from allies and markets. Due to the power of the US dollar, breadth of the US market, and dominance of the US financial system, even the threat of secondary sanctions prompts many non-US companies to change their behavior to avoid the risk of such sanctions. Although this approach has furthered US policies, it has resulted in transatlantic political divergence and enhanced compliance uncertainty among private sector actors.

China Economic Sanctions

Issue Brief

Sep 18, 2019

A transatlantic agenda for the new European Commission

By Benjamin Haddad and Jörn Fleck (Eds)

The new European Commission will take office on November 1, 2019, at a time of intensifying great power competition and new strain for transatlantic relations. This memo gathers the contributions of several Atlantic Council experts on a variety of issues such as defense, foreign policy, trade, and energy policy

Cybersecurity Economy & Business

Issue Brief

Sep 18, 2019

A transatlantic agenda for the new European Commission

By Benjamin Haddad, Jörn Fleck

The new European Commission will take office on November 1, 2019, at a time of intensifying great power competition and new strain for transatlantic relations. This memo gathers the contributions of several Atlantic Council experts on a variety of issues such as defense, foreign policy, trade, and energy policy

Cybersecurity Economy & Business

Issue briefs and reports

Sep 16, 2019

Key principles for economic policy and judiciary in Ukraine

By Eurasia Center

Ukrainian business leaders commit to principles of rule of law and economic policy in Ukraine.

Economy & Business English

Issue Brief

Sep 12, 2019

US surveillance on trial in Europe: Will transatlantic digital commerce be collateral damage?

By Kenneth Propp

In this issue brief, Kenneth Propp, non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative, examines the existing transatlantic data-transfer mechanisms, the landmark court case that could invalidate them, and the divergent US and EU approaches to data transfers across borders and privacy standards.

Digital Policy Europe & Eurasia

Report

Sep 12, 2019

Russia’s intervention in Venezuela: What’s at stake?

By John E. Herbst and Jason Marczak

Venezuela is suffering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent memory, Russia has become a key actor that has provided a lifeline of support to Maduro and his cronies. Today, Russia’s efforts to prop up Nicolás Maduro have been a relatively low-cost, but high-reward strategy for Moscow to sow further instability in the United States' own hemisphere.

Democratic Transitions Economic Sanctions

Report

Sep 10, 2019

Dynamic stability: US strategy for a world in transition

By By Barry Pavel, Peter Engelke, and Alex Ward

We have entered a new era in world history, a post-post-Cold War era that holds both great promise and great peril for the United States, its allies, and everyone else. We now can call this a “Westphalian-Plus” world, in which nation-states will have to engage on two distinct levels: dealing with other nation-states as before, […]

Report

Sep 6, 2019

Alternate cybersecurity futures

By John Watts, Ben Jensen, JD Work, Nina Kollars, and Chris Whyte

If the national security community continues to focus on immediate threats and managing current emergencies, it will never escape a cycle of crises, nor manage to impose a strategy to shape tomorrow’s environment.

Cybersecurity

Issue Brief

Aug 21, 2019

Repeal of Article 370: Implications for India, Pakistan, and the United States

By Kyra Kocis, Nidhi Upadhyaya, and Irfan Nooruddin

The articles have institutionalized a unique constitutional relationship between Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and the Central Government since 1954.

Conflict India
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