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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

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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

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Mar 19, 2012

Transatlantic Nations and Global Security: Pivoting and Partnerships

By Franklin D. Kramer

As world leaders prepare for the NATO Summit in Chicago this May, a new Atlantic Council report argues for renewed transatlantic leadership that will allow NATO to better address significant global issues with a unified voice—specifically in the greater Middle East and around cyber security—in order to remain relevant in today’s increasingly interconnected world. Download […]

NATO Security & Defense

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Mar 6, 2012

The Finance Crisis: Lessons Learned from Canada and the Way Forward

By Atlantic Council

On November 16, 2011 the Atlantic Council, Thomson Reuters, the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and the Embassy of Canada hosted a day-long conference to look at the actions and tools Canada used to so successfully weather the financial crisis. Entitled The Finance Crisis: Lessons Learned from Canada and the Way […]

Economy & Business Financial Regulation
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Oct 17, 2011

Could 3D printing change the world?

By Thomas Campbell, Christopher Williams, Olga Ivanova, and Banning Garrett

Could 3D Printing Change the World? Technologies, Potential, and Implications of Additive Manufacturing explores the technology of AM and its broader implications.

Technology & Innovation

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Oct 13, 2011

Georgia in the West: A Policy Road Map to Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic Future

On October 13, the Atlantic Council Task Force on Georgia, co-chaired by Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Lindsey Graham, released a major new report on Georgia at an event held on Capitol Hill, arguing for intensified domestic reform and a new sense of common purpose and clarity from the United States and Europe to work toward […]

European Union International Organizations

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Sep 7, 2011

Nordic-Baltic Security in the 21st Century

The Atlantic Council today released “Nordic-Baltic Security in the 21st Century: The Regional Agenda and the Global Role,” a compendium of issue briefs on a range of topics related to Nordic-Baltic security, including NATO’s role in the region, energy security, and how the region can play a larger role in the transatlantic community in concert […]

Northern Europe

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Jul 21, 2011

Egypt’s democratic transition: Five important myths about the economy and international assistance

The Legatum Institute and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in association with the Atlantic Council, present this short report, which is the product of an exploratory trip to Egypt by the authors in mid-June 2011. Its aim is to help shape the conversation about Egypt’s economy, economic policy, and international assistance by addressing several persistent […]

North Africa

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Jul 6, 2011

Mapping the Economic and Financial Future

A new Atlantic Council report summarizes two years’ worth of rich and deep discussions from our “Mapping the Economic and Financial Future” speakers’ forum. Our Global Business and Economics Program has partnered with Deutsche Bank on this important initiative to help build the intellectual foundation for understanding the financial crisis, and drive the debate on […]

Economy & Business Fiscal and Structural Reform

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Feb 1, 2011

Learning by doing: The Pakistan army’s experience with counterinsurgency

By Shuja Nawaz

In the South Asia Center report “Learning by Doing: The Pakistan Army’s Experience with Counterinsurgency,” Center Director and author Shuja Nawaz examines the doctrinal shift toward counterinsurgency (COIN) that has taken place in the Pakistan army in recent years. The army appears to have learned many lessons from its experiences in Swat in 2008 and […]

Extremism Pakistan