About the Council

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.

Latest commentary and analysis

Econographics

Jun 19, 2026

Central banks can’t afford to keep missing their inflation targets

By Jack Muldoon

While the Iran war explains the sudden rise in inflation, relying on this excuse obscures that there is potentially a long-term problem central banks will need to confront as they manage the long tail of this crisis.

Economy & Business Macroeconomics

UkraineAlert

Jun 18, 2026

Putin’s obsession with ‘denazifying’ Ukraine makes peace impossible

By Peter Dickinson

Putin’s obsession with “denazifying” Ukraine makes a mockery of efforts to portray the Russian invasion as a mere land grab and helps explain why there has been no meaningful progress toward peace despite more than a year of US-led efforts, writes Peter Dickinson.

Conflict Disinformation

Podcast

Jun 18, 2026

“Shoot everybody”: US contractors in San Diego court

By Alia Brahimi

In Season 2, Episode 16 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joined by Daniel McLaughlin, an international lawyer and Legal Director of the Centre for Justice and Accountability (CJA), a California-based legal nonprofit working on behalf of victims of torture and other atrocity crimes. Daniel and CJA are leading a civil suit in San Diego against a Delaware-registered PMC, Spear Operations Group, for war crimes in Yemen. They represent the Yemeni parliamentarian Anssaf Ali Mayo, who was one of the targets of an alleged hit-squad in Yemen. Daniel talks us through the facts of the case, how it ended up in a California courtroom ten years later, and which US and international laws were ostensibly broken by the PMC. He also argues forcefully that the US government has a duty to regulate how former members of its military use their training and know-how.

Middle East Rule of Law

Latest in-depth research and reports

Content

In the News

Dec 29, 2022

Friedlander interviewed by the Brookings Institution on government sanctions on Russia

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Economy & Business Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

In the News

Dec 29, 2022

Nonresident Senior Fellow Michael Schuman featured in The Atlantic on Sino-Russian relations

By Michael Schuman

On December 29, 2022, Global China Hub Nonresident Senior Fellow Michael Schuman was featured in The Atlantic, discussing the tense relationship between Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

China Russia

In the News

Dec 27, 2022

Lipsky interviewed by CoinDesk TV on the future of CBDCs

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Digital Currencies Digital Policy

In the News

Dec 24, 2022

Graham quoted by I News on the impact of China’s COVID U-turn on British consumers.

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China Economy & Business

In the News

Dec 23, 2022

CBDC Tracker was cited by CNBC TV 18 on the Bahamas’ progress in launching its CBDC Project.

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Caribbean Digital Currencies

In the News

Dec 23, 2022

Lipner quoted in Financial Times: Netanyahu forges most rightwing government in Israeli history

Middle East Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Dec 22, 2022

Wechsler and Shapiro mentioned by 2M on the work of the N7 Conference on Education and Coexistence

French Middle East

In the News

Dec 22, 2022

N7 Conference on Education and Coexistence featured in DW Arabic as potential key to normalization

Arabic Middle East

In the News

Dec 22, 2022

Wechsler and Shapiro quoted in Al Quds Al-Arabi promoting collaboration through education and coexistence

Arabic Middle East

In the News

Dec 22, 2022

Shapiro joins Morocco World News to discuss education and coexistence at N7 Conference

English Middle East