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The Atlantic Council promotes constructive leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the Atlantic Community’s central role in meeting global challenges. The Council provides an essential forum for navigating the dramatic economic and political changes defining the twenty-first century by informing and galvanizing its uniquely influential network of global leaders. Through the papers we write, the ideas we generate, and the communities we build, the Council shapes policy choices and strategies to create a more secure and prosperous world.

NATO 20/2020

Twenty bold ideas to reimagine the Alliance after the 2020 US election

More than two decades after NATO’s inspired decision to invite former adversaries to join its ranks, the Alliance is in need of equally captivating ideas. The essays in this volume are intended to push the Alliance to think boldly and creatively in the service of recapturing the public’s imagination.

Read our provocative essays on the future of NATO

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Making a difference

Learn more about the Atlantic Council’s insights & impact through these stories of how our regional and thematic programs are making a difference not only in shaping how we view global issues but also in shaping their outcome.

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In the News

Apr 21, 2020

Kadhim quoted in the New York Times on anti-Iranian sentiment in Iraq

By Atlantic Council

Coronavirus Iraq

EnergySource

Apr 21, 2020

In the wake of a pandemic: Coronavirus impacts on clean energy and climate action

By Zachary Strauss

Amid the haze of uncertainty wrought from coronavirus and oil market fallout, clean energy actors will not take a backseat as the world evolves. As the status quo dissolves before a global crisis, and fossil energy markets grow increasingly volatile, renewables and clean tech have an opportunity to chart a new path forward amid the recovery.

Coronavirus Energy & Environment

In the News

Apr 20, 2020

Riaz in The Daily Star: Defunding WHO: Trump’s reckless decision

By Atlantic Council

China Coronavirus

In the News

Apr 20, 2020

Younus in his podcast “Pakistonomy,” episode 14: Dr. Miftah Ismail

By Atlantic Council

Coronavirus Economy & Business

In the News

Apr 19, 2020

Cimmino in The National Interest: WHO has faltered, but US should commit to strengthening it

By Atlantic Council

Global Strategy Initiative program assistant Jeffrey Cimmino argues the United States should recommit to strengthening global health security by increasing democracies’ influence in the World Health Organization and forming a body made up of allies and partners devoted to pandemic-preparedness and public health resilience.

China Coronavirus

In the News

Apr 18, 2020

Vajdich in The National Interest: The Geopolitical Cost of Battling the Coronavirus Separately (China Will Win)

By Atlantic Council

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In the News

Apr 18, 2020

Lakhani in the Karavan Podcast: Kalsoom Lakhani of i2i Ventures

By Atlantic Council

Economy & Business Entrepreneurship

In the News

Apr 17, 2020

Kroenig discusses US involvement in global public health institutions in Foreign Policy

By Atlantic Council

On April 17, Foreign Policy published a biweekly column featuring Scowcroft Center Deputy Director Matthew Kroenig debating the Cato Institute’s Emma Ashford. Dr. Kroenig and Dr. Ashford discussed global health security, transatlantic relations, and the virus’s implications for military readiness. While global public health institutions have faltered in the face of the pandemic, the crisis […]

Coronavirus European Union

In the News

Apr 16, 2020

Lakhani’s company i2i mentioned in Pioneer’s Post on supporting start-ups to scale up in Pakistan

By Atlantic Council

Economy & Business Entrepreneurship

In the News

Apr 16, 2020

D’Sola featured on SupChina’s podcast Sinica: China’s Venezuelan vicissitudes

By Atlantic Council

On April 16, 2020, Parsifal D’Sola was featured on an episode of SupChina’s podcast Sinica, “China’s Venezuelan vicissitudes.” D’Sola, along with Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn, discussed “China’s strategy in the resource-rich but economically devastated Venezuela.”

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