Issue briefs and reports

Issue briefs and reports

Our programs and centers deliver in-depth, highly relevant issue briefs and reports that break new ground, shift opinions, and set agendas on public policy, with a focus on advancing debates by integrating foundational research and analysis with concrete policy solutions.

Lessons from constitution-making in Tunisia

Global Energy Agenda Jun 8, 2026

2026 Global Energy Agenda full survey results

The Global Energy Agenda takes the pulse of the energy community, revealing expert views on global energy security, access, and sustainability.
Africa Americas
Lessons from constitution-making in Tunisia

Report Jun 1, 2026

Atlantic Council Commission on AI lays a roadmap for US leadership in the age of AI

By Atlantic Council experts

The flagship report of the Atlantic Council Commission on AI and US competitiveness, which presents an action-oriented roadmap for strengthening US domestic AI capacity.
Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity
Lessons from constitution-making in Tunisia

Issue Brief Jun 9, 2026

How global authoritarians sustain inequality

By Deng Liu

Authoritarian leaders across the world use targeted strategies to sustain inequality. But developing countries should instead pull from a variety of existing development models to create societal prosperity.
East Asia Freedom and Prosperity

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Issue Brief

Dec 13, 2012

Lessons from constitution-making in Tunisia

By Duncan Pickard

The Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East is pleased to release a new issue brief, “Lessons from Constitution-Making in Tunisia,” authored by non-resident fellow Duncan Pickard who examines the challenges and lessons learned from the country’s constitution-writing process While Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly remains several months away from completing its work and some major issues, […]

North Africa

Report

Dec 10, 2012

Global trends 2030: alternative worlds

By National Intelligence Council

The Global Trends project engages expertise from outside government on factors of such as globalization, demography and the environment, producing a forward-looking document to aid policymakers in their long term planning on key issues of worldwide importance.

Report

Dec 10, 2012

Envisioning 2030: US strategy for a post-western world

By Robert A. Manning

The report outlines a US leadership strategy for the period ahead to 2030 and offers policy approaches in key subject areas to ensure a positive outcome at this inflection point toward a "post-Western world," given historic shifts in political and economic influence.

Issue Brief

Dec 1, 2012

Conventional Arms Control in Europe and Related Regional Security Concerns

By Isabelle Francois

Conventional arms control in Europe remains relevant more than two decades after the singing of the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE). This brief by Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Isabelle Francois argues that today, the CFE could serve as a useful vehicle for collaboration with Russia on a broad range of security issues, and productive […]

Russia

External

Nov 21, 2012

IntelBrief: Somalia: Pirates Down and Out…for Now

By Bronwyn Bruton

In the latest 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 the rate of attacks by Somali pirates has plunged and attributes the drop mostly […]

Issue Brief

Nov 6, 2012

An Agenda for NATO-EU-Private Sector Cyber Collaboration

By Tom Parkhouse and Leendert van Bochoven

For the Smarter Alliance Initiative, Tom Parkhouse, senior fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, and Leendert van Bochoven emphasize in “An Agenda for NATO-EU-Private Sector Cyber Collaboration,” that a secure cyber environment will encourage investment in the Euro-Atlantic area, increase competitiveness of Euro-Atlantic business, and promote export […]

European Union International Organizations

Issue Brief

Nov 6, 2012

Strategic Cyber Early Warning: A Phased Adaptive Approach for NATO

By Jason Healey and Leendert van Bochoven

In “Strategic Cyber Early Warning: A Phased Adaptive Approach for NATO,” a paper from the Smarter Alliance Initiative, Jason Healey, director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, and Leendert van Bochoven, NATO and European Defense leader at IBM, formulate steps for NATO to improve its cyber warning system Download the PDF

External

Nov 1, 2012

IntelBrief: Sudanese Hub, Iranian Nexus

By J. Peter Pham

In the latest 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, Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham explores the background behind the destruction of an arms factory south of Khartoum last week—an attack […]

Sudan

Report

Oct 26, 2012

Managing the Global Response to Maritime Piracy

By Atlantic Council Counter-Piracy Task Force

The Counter-Piracy Task Force, a collaboration between the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center and Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security release its report on “Managing the Global Response to Maritime Piracy.”Download the PDF

Issue Brief

Oct 25, 2012

Ukraine’s Parliamentary Elections 2012: A Critical Moment for Democracy

The latest Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center issue brief, “Ukraine’s Parliamentary Election 2012: A Critical Moment for Democracy,” by assistant director Anna Borshchevskaya, reviews key issues in the country’s October 28 parliamentary (Verkhovna Rada) elections.Download the PDF

Ukraine
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