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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

Explore the podcast series

NATO 20/2020 is a weekly podcast that explores 20 bold ideas to push NATO to be more visionary, more capable, and more self-evidently valuable to the security of more people.

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.

Latest commentary and analysis

Latest in-depth research and reports

Content

In the News

Sep 5, 2023

Lipsky quoted by Politico on the spillover effects of China’s slowing economy

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China Economy & Business

In the News

Sep 5, 2023

Atlantic Council Experts cited by the Hinrich Foundation on the BRICS expansion

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Brazil China

In the News

Sep 4, 2023

Warrick in The Hill on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

By Atlantic Council

Thomas S. Warrick discusses renewing section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Intelligence Non-Traditional Threats

In the News

Sep 4, 2023

Garlauskas quoted in the EurAsian Times

On September 3, Markus Garlauskas’s recent comments to Nikkei Asia were quoted in the EurAsian Times. The article underscored Garlauskas’s statement that the world has underestimated the nuclear threat posed by North Korea, particularly “its risk calculus, its willingness to provoke, its willingness to engage in limited acts of aggression.”

Arms Control China

In the News

Sep 4, 2023

Ukraine’s long and sordid history of treason

By Atlantic Council

Rule of Law Ukraine

In the News

Sep 4, 2023

Yevgeniya Gaber joins Al-Monitor for commentary on President Erdogan-Putin meeting

Conflict Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Sep 3, 2023

Lipsky and Graham cited by Business Insider on Russia and Indonesia’s differing economic growth trajectories

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Indo-Pacific Macroeconomics

In the News

Sep 3, 2023

Khakova quoted in Business Insider on the war’s acceleration of the energy transition

Energy & Environment Energy Transitions

In the News

Sep 3, 2023

Donovan and Nikoladze cited by Politico on the amounts of frozen Russian assets

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Economic Sanctions Energy & Environment

In the News

Sep 2, 2023

Brzezinski in Glas Amerike (Voice of America) on discussing the state of the Russian army

By Ian Brzezinski

On September 2, Transatlantic Security Initiative senior fellow Ian Brzezinski was quoted in Glas Amerike (Voice of America) discussing the state of the Russian army (text in Serbian). 

Europe & Eurasia Polish