Spotlight France: Europe’s swing state

Russia Tomorrow Dec 12, 2025

The Russian economy in 2025: Between stagnation and militarization 

By Elina Ribakova, Lucas Risinger

The latest report in the Atlantic Council’s Russia Tomorrow series examines the Russian wartime economy.
Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia
Spotlight France: Europe’s swing state

Issue Brief Dec 4, 2025

A stronger, safer, and more prosperous hemisphere: The case for investing in democracy in the Americas

By Antonio Garrastazu and Henrique Arevalo Poincot

This issue brief is the fourth in the Freedom and Prosperity Center’s “Future of democracy assistance” series, which analyzes the many complex challenges to democracy around the world—and highlights actionable policies that promote democratic governance.
Civil Society Democratic Transitions
Spotlight France: Europe’s swing state

Issue Brief Dec 12, 2025

In Southeast Asia, the promise and pitfalls of tariff diplomacy are on full display 

By Amy Searight

US President Donald Trump’s high-profile intervention in the Thai-Cambodian border dispute delivered a cease-fire, but its violation exposes the fragility of tariff diplomacy and raises questions about the durability of coercive US diplomacy in the region.
Indo-Pacific Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

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Issue Brief

Dec 13, 2016

Spotlight France: Europe’s swing state

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Jérémie Gallon and Jeff Lightfoot</span>

France’s geopolitical power in Europe is unique. It combines a positive legacy of global leadership, a rich diplomatic network, universal aspirations, global military reach, cultural influence, and economic heft. The authors, Atlantic Council Senior Fellows Jérémie Gallon and Jeff Lightfoot, of this paper, “France: Europe’s Swing State: Foreign Policy Begins at Home,” argue that France […]

European Union France

Issue Brief

Dec 13, 2016

Spotlight France: Europe’s swing state

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Jeffrey Lightfoot, Jérémie Gallon</span>

“France: Europe’s Swing State: Foreign Policy Begins at Home,” argue that France is the pivotal swing state in shaping the contours of a stronger European Union (EU) and a reinforced transatlantic alliance at a crucial moment in the history of the West.

European Union France

Issue Brief

Dec 7, 2016

Eritrea: Coming in from the cold

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Bronwyn Bruton</span>

trea has long been stigmatized as a regional “spoiler” by Washington, and despite little evidence of wrongdoing, the country remains under Security Council sanctions for supporting terrorist groups in Somalia.

Africa Civil Society

Issue Brief

Dec 7, 2016

Eritrea: Coming in from the cold

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Bronwyn Bruton</span>

Eritrea has long been stigmatized as a regional “spoiler” by Washington, and despite little evidence of wrongdoing, the country remains under Security Council sanctions for supporting terrorist groups in Somalia. Now is the time to rethink that relationship, argues Atlantic Council Africa Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton in a new issue brief entitled “Eritrea: Coming […]

Africa Civil Society

Report

Dec 7, 2016

Eritrea’s economy: Ideology and opportunity

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Seth Kaplan</span>

Eritrea is often in the news for all the wrong reasons: its high rates of migration to Europe (it has sent more refugees to Europe in recent years than any other African nation), its conflicts with neighboring Ethiopia and Djibouti, and controversy over its mandatory and indefinite national service conscription program. Human rights activists, in […]

Africa East Africa

Report

Dec 6, 2016

Evaluating Western Sanctions on Russia

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Sergey Aleksashenko</span>

It has been more than two years since the European Union (EU) and the United States imposed economic sanctions on Russia for its aggression in Ukraine. For some of the measures that is time enough to evaluate effectiveness. “The sanctions’ greatest achievement is that they have been an important demonstration of transatlantic unity. Still, there […]

Conflict Defense Policy

Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series

Dec 6, 2016

A measured US strategy for the new Africa

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Dr. J. Peter Pham</span>

Africa’s story is increasingly one of economic dynamism that is driven, in part, by political reform and improvements in governance. But, there are also very real security, humanitarian, and developmental challenges that remain to be confronted. The United States has a stake in helping to tackle these challenges, not least because it is in its own national interest to do so.

Africa East Africa

Report

Dec 1, 2016

Latin America and the Caribbean 2030: future scenarios

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Jason Marczak and Peter Engelke</span>

A new Atlantic Council–Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report lays out six scenarios for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2030, underscoring how greater integration and better governance hold the key to greater prosperity.

Democratic Transitions Economy & Business
Demographic Dividends - Img

Report

Nov 30, 2016

Middle East Strategy Task Force: Final report of the co-chairs

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Madeleine K. Albright and Stephen J. Hadley</span>

The final report of Middle East Strategy Task Force Co-Chairs Madeleine K. Albright and Stephen J. Hadley proposes nothing short of a paradigm shift in how the international community and the Middle East interact.

Middle East Resilience & Society

Report

Nov 21, 2016

Middle East Strategy Task Force: Politics, governance, and state-society relations

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Tamara Cofman Wittes</span>

Investing in sustainable governance is important for the world and for the rising generation of young Arabs, who can either become a force for tremendous progress or a generation lost to violence and despair.

Civil Society Political Reform
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