A Road Map for Restructuring U.S. Relations with Cuba

Issue Brief
Jun 12, 2025

Building for tomorrow: Preparing US industry to compete in a lower-carbon global economy

By
David L. Goldwyn, Andrea Clabough

The question for US policymakers is not whether to compete, but how.

Energy & Environment
Energy Markets & Governance

A Road Map for Restructuring U.S. Relations with Cuba

Report
Jun 23, 2025

2025 Freedom and Prosperity Indexes: How political freedom drives growth

By
Ignacio Campomanes, Nina Dannaoui-Johnson, Annie (Yu-Lin) Lee, Joseph Lemoine

As the Freedom and Prosperity Indexes show political freedom declining worldwide for the twelfth straight year, new data analysis shows its importance for lasting prosperity: Though authoritarians promise economic rewards, democratizing countries gain an 8.8 percent GDP per capita boost over twenty years than their autocratic peers. With democracy on the ropes, what else can the Indexes tell us?

China
Civil Society

A Road Map for Restructuring U.S. Relations with Cuba

Issue Brief
Jun 6, 2025

How Japanese economic statecraft has shifted from promotion to protection

By
Charles Lichfield

Japan is in a geopolitically challenging neighborhood and is witnessing the basic tenets of its foreign policy—from alignment with the United States to fostering a rules-based environment—come under unprecedented stress.

East Asia
Economic Sanctions

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Issue Brief

Dec 25, 2007

A Road Map for Restructuring U.S. Relations with Cuba

The U.S. government has sought to advance democratic and free-market change in Cuba for 47 years. Those efforts have failed. Indeed, the transfer of power from Fidel Castro has produced little change in Cuba’s politics and took place with no manifestations of broad popular demands for an end to one-party Communist rule. Instead, the Cuban […]

Cuba Economy & Business
Cyber Attack CEOs

Report

Dec 19, 2007

Cyber Attack: Risk Management Primer for CEOs

No business, government, nongovernmental, or other organization of whatever size is invulnerable to cyber attacks. Business owners and executives, including managing directors, cannot afford to put at risk the security and stability of their operating and financial systems, confidential information, intellectual property, and business transactions to cyber predators through lack of knowledge or initiative.Download the […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Report

Oct 15, 2007

Corruption, Democracy, and Investment in Ukraine

Ukraine is facing a considerable challenge from corruption, which our research showed is presentin nearly all levels of government and politics, the judiciary, and business. It is the view of the Task Force that corruption has become so severe that it has the potential to threaten Ukraine’s political and economic stability as well as the […]

European Union International Organizations

Report

Sep 6, 2007

Independent Commision on the Security Forces of Iraq

Retired Marine General James Jones, Chairman of the Atlantic Council, chaired the Committee that produced this report assessing Iraq’s national police force. The report’s overall assessment said “the Iraqi armed forces – Army, Special Forces, Navy, and Air Force – are increasingly effective and are capable of assuming greater responsibility for the internal security of […]

Iraq

Report

Jun 1, 2007

Transatlantic cooperation for clean cir

By Atlantic Council

Although the United States and the European Union have for many years pursued different approaches on the issues of air quality and climate change, those strategies are now beginning to intersect. Transatlantic cooperation could be enormously beneficial in developing new technologies and new regulatory frameworks, and in reaching out to developing countries, such as China and India.

Energy & Environment European Union

Report

Apr 19, 2007

Transatlantic Leadership for a New Global Economy

The Council’s report Transatlantic Leadership for a New Global Economy is the product of a commission co-chaired by Stuart E. Eizenstat, former deputy secretary of the Treasury a­nd Council board member, and Grant D. Aldonas, former under secretary of Commerce for international trade. The report argues that to deal with a new international economy, the […]

Economy & Business European Union

Report

Apr 17, 2007

North Korean relations: US policies, laws & regulations

This compendium contains the text of major regulations, laws, and other documents governing U.S. interactions with North Korea. Also provided are the text of U.N. Resolutions, agreements, and other documents that represent major policy decisions in U.S. relations with North Korea. Accompanying each major document, law, or regulation is a brief analysis discussing the policy […]

Defense Policy International Norms

Report

Apr 17, 2007

Law & the Lone Superpower: Rebuilding a Transatlantic Consensus on International Law

Throughout 2006, allegations of U.S. involvement in “renditions” of suspected terrorists from Europe to prisons in Afghanistan and elsewher­e reverberated around European capitals. Charges that the United States had established secret prisons in some European countries raised the temperature even further. The European Parliament and the Council of Europe initiated investi­gations, while some European leaders […]

Europe & Eurasia United States and Canada

Report

Apr 13, 2007

Korea and Northeast Asia peace and security framework

The United States has few more important policy goals than eliminating North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. The risk that the repressive Pyongyang regime could transfer nuclear weapons and materials to rogue states or terrorist groups weighs particularly heavy on the minds of U.S. policymakers. Executive Summary U.S. negotiators in February 2007 achieved a breakthrough in […]

China Defense Policy

Issue Brief

Mar 31, 2007

Can German Locomotive Drive the European Economy?

During the second half of 2006 and in early 2007, the German economic eng­ine seemed to gain speed, moving into recovery after several years of stagnation. Whether this recovery is sustainable is still unclear, however. With its­ reliance on exports, Germany remains vulnerable to any downturn in the global economy. Nor is it yet clear […]

Economy & Business European Union
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