IntelBrief: The Continuing Crisis in Mali

Issue Brief
Mar 27, 2025

Canada needs an economic statecraft strategy to address its vulnerabilities

By
Kimberly Donovan, Maia Nikoladze, Lize de Kruijf

To address threats from Russia and China and reduce trade overdependence on the United States, Canada’s federal government will need to consolidate economic power and devise an economic statecraft strategy that will leverage Canada’s economic tools to mitigate economic threats and vulnerabilities.

China
Cybersecurity

IntelBrief: The Continuing Crisis in Mali

Issue Brief
Mar 26, 2025

Trade with Colombia is big business for US exporters—amid growing Chinese influence in Latin America

By
Geoff Ramsey, Enrique Millán-Mejía

The United States maintains a trade surplus with Colombia, which is also the top destination for US agricultural exports in South America. However, growing Chinese influence and political tensions threaten the bilateral relationship. To protect mutual economic interests, the United States can leverage diplomatic channels and private sector engagement.

Colombia
Economy & Business

IntelBrief: The Continuing Crisis in Mali

Report
Apr 16, 2025

Navigating the US-PRC tech competition in the Global South

By
Cole McFaul, Peter Engelke

A landscape report analyzing China’s strategic tech engagements with the Global South and how the US can compete.

Africa
Artificial Intelligence

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May 29, 2012

IntelBrief: The Continuing Crisis in Mali

By J. Peter Pham

In the fourth in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center director J. Peter Pham notes that the failure to resolve the political impasse in the Malian capital impedes any effort […]

Issue Brief

May 14, 2012

Change Management and Cultural Transformation in NATO

By Edgar Buckley and Nancy DeViney

In an Atlantic Council issue brief, “Change Management and Cultural Transformation in NATO: Lessons from the Public and Private Sectors,” Edgar Buckley, former assistant secretary general of NATO, and Nancy DeViney, vice president for Organizational Change Management at IBM argue that applying lessons learned from change management and cultural transformation experiences from both the public […]

NATO Security & Defense

Report

May 14, 2012

Anchoring the Alliance

By Nicholas Burns, Damon Wilson, and Jeff Lightfoot

On the eve of the Chicago summit, a new Atlantic Council report argues for the enduring importance of NATO, and calls for renewed leadership from the Alliance’s members to ensure NATO’s vibrancy in the decade to come. Download PDF

NATO Security & Defense

External

May 14, 2012

IntelBrief: Another War in the Horn?

By Bronwyn Bruton

In the third in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center deputy director Bronwyn Bruton notes that important transitional arrangements were neglected before the independence of South Sudan last year and, […]

Issue Brief

May 13, 2012

It’s Time to Put the Nuclear Issue Behind Us

By George Robertson, Franklin C. Miller, and Kori Schake

In a new Atlantic Council issue brief, authors Lord Robertson, Franklin C. Miller, and Kori Schake urge NATO heads of states to put nuclear issues behind them when they gather in Chicago this week. They argue that it is time to halt the internecine warfare which distracts Western national security experts, and has no obvious […]

NATO Russia

Report

May 7, 2012

The Task Ahead: Memos for the Winner of the 2012 Presidential Election

In anticipation of the 2012 US presidential election, the Atlantic Council released a compilation of essays addressing the key issues each candidate will face during this election cycle and into the foreseeable future. Download the PDF

United States and Canada

External

Apr 20, 2012

IntelBrief: Somalia – The Next Chapter in an Endless War

By Bronwyn Bruton

In the second of the new series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Ansari Center deputy director Bronwyn Bruton notes that while life has been improving for the residents of Mogadishu after five years of war and […]

East Africa

Issue Brief

Apr 18, 2012

The US Cyber Policy Reboot

By Jason Healey

Jason Healey, director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, argues that 2011 has seen the most vigorous effort on the part of the United States government to establish a coordinated set of cyber policies in nearly a decade: “We have been wandering in a policy desert for years and while we may not have […]

Issue Brief

Apr 11, 2012

New Solutions to Close the Skills Gap

On December 15, 2011, the Atlantic Council partnered with PwC to host an inaugural high-level roundtable of leading business, government, and academic experts to analyze the global mismatch between skills and jobs, better known as the “skills gap,” and offer policy solutions. This issue brief summarizes the conclusions of that discussion.  Download the PDF

Issue Brief

Apr 4, 2012

Rethinking the Russia Reset

By Frances Burwell and Svante Cornell

As public protests continue throughout Russia, 2012 will be a decisive year in Russia’s domestic politics, with uncertain implications for the future of the US-Russia Reset. Against the backdrop of a US-Russia relationship in flux, the Atlantic Council released the issue brief, “Rethinking the Russia Reset,” which makes recommendations for US and Russian policymakers to […]

Russia
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