Category: Notes for the Board

The Global Business and Economics Center Hosts Dame Carolyn Fairbairn

January 31 marks the day the UK will officially leave the European Union and begin its transition period. This will set up an 11 months negotiation to define the future UK-EU relationship. Dame Carolyn offered remarks to open the discussion on the UK’s new role on the global trading stage and the future of the US-UK relationship ahead of […]

The Eurasia Center Hosts a InterNYET Screening: The rise and fall of the Russian Internet and the threat of Putin’s ‘foreign agent’ law

From its beginnings in the 1990s, the Russian Internet (RuNet) was envisioned and engineered by its founders as a platform that would “introduce Russians and Americans so the world would be safer.” However, despite its initial promise, it has become a means of “ideological control,” says Russian journalist Andrei Loshak. erNYET: A History of The Russian Internet […]

Bronwyn Bruton in Foreign Policy

By Atlantic Council

“This Nobel Prize is a nod to the rightness of Abiy’s rise to power. That may irk not only the old guard on the border, but Abiy’s pro-democracy political rivals, too—many of whom . . . may not feel that the international community has earned the right to cast a vote on Ethiopia’s future.”

Lauren Speranza in DefenseOne

By Atlantic Council

“A lot of what you hear in the context of the NATO conversation is this question about core values…the question of democracy and freedom, the rule of law, and human rights that are fundamental to alliance. And when you see those degrade, that opens the door to Russian influence,” said Speranza, deputy director of the Transatlantic Security Initiative at the Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Jason Marczak in the Miami Herald

By Atlantic Council

The rising frustration with crime and corruption is dovetailing with another phenomenon: people willing to take to the street to force change, said Jason Marczak, the director of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. This is the case, or has been in recent months in Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Haiti. “I see a common thread of popular disenchantment with the status quo and people feel empowered to do something about it,” Marczak said.

Matt Burrows in Axios

By Atlantic Council

The U.S. has so far been unwilling to adapt to the changing global reality, Burrows tells Axios. No other country would imagine it could "only ensure national security through primacy," he says.

Dr. Alexis Crow in the Wall Street Journal

By Atlantic Council

“Investors are trading on a hope for some sort of lasting trade peace, which https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-markets-are-rising-despite-a-trade-war-brexit-and-impeachment-threats-11571418451after 18 months, appears to be elusive,”

Aubry Hruby in Project Syndicate

By Atlantic Council

“Smart companies will invest in local subsidiaries instead of trying to maintain strong central control, and they will embrace mobile technology to connect with consumers and build bridges to the informal sector.”