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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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Content

In the News

Sep 26, 2019

Lipner quoted in Jewish Insider on Netanyahu’s chances to form a government

Elections Israel

In the News

Sep 25, 2019

Hudson in Foreign Policy: The United States should lift sanctions on Sudan

By Atlantic Council

Africa English

In the News

Sep 25, 2019

Åslund in Politico: Trump’s Ukraine circus

By Atlantic Council

There’s something obvious about the Ukraine scandal threatening to bring down Donald Trump. The people around him — his top lieutenants, former campaign manager Paul Manafort and attorney Rudy Giuliani — have been deeply involved with questionable political and business leaders in Ukraine for years. I would know, as I’ve been following economic affairs in the country for decades. Manafort […]

Conflict Europe & Eurasia

Notes for the Board

Sep 25, 2019

Private Roundtable with Ukrainian Members of Parliament on Anti-Corruption Policy

By Atlantic Council

On September 25, the Eurasia Center hosted a private roundtable with six Ukrainian Members of Parliament (MPs), all of whom sit on the Verkhovna Rada’s Anti-Corruption Policy Committee. The six MPs came from both the Servant of the People and Batkivshchyna parties of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, respectively. The MPs […]

In the News

Sep 25, 2019

Pyper quoted in KCRW on climate action summit and global climate strikes

By Atlantic Council

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

In the News

Sep 25, 2019

Hruby joins AfriCanDo to discuss the US-China trade war’s impact on Africa

By Atlantic Council

Africa China

In the News

Sep 25, 2019

Livingston joins CGTN World Insight to discuss the UN Climate Summit

By Atlantic Council

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

In the News

Sep 25, 2019

Herbst & Simakovsky quoted in The Washington Post on US-Ukraine ties

By Atlantic Council

Conflict Defense Policy

In the News

Sep 24, 2019

Bryza joins Al Jazeera to discuss the G7 Summit

By Atlantic Council

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Sep 24, 2019

Livingston quoted in S&P Global on industrial decaborbization

By Atlantic Council

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment