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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

Feb 18, 2023

Wald quoted in The Eastern Herald on Russian oil sanctions

Energy & Environment Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Feb 18, 2023

Fishman in NPR: Are sanctions slowing down Russia’s war machine?

By Atlantic Council

Defense Industry Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

In the News

Feb 17, 2023

CBDC tracker cited in Forbes on technology trends

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Digital Currencies Economy & Business

In the News

Feb 17, 2023

Russia Sanctions Database cited in Yahoo News on state of the Russian economy

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Economy & Business Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

In the News

Feb 17, 2023

CBDC tracker cited in Blockworks on CBDC pilots

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Digital Currencies Economy & Business

In the News

Feb 17, 2023

Russia sanctions event profiled in Voice of America’s Russian edition

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Economy & Business Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

In the News

Feb 16, 2023

Eftimiades in TIME

By Atlantic Council

Nicholas Eftimiades discusses why China launched a spy balloon over the United States.

China Defense Policy

In the News

Feb 16, 2023

Rich Outzen joins WION to discuss the Chinese surveillance balloon

China Intelligence

In the News

Feb 16, 2023

Metzl on Fox News discussing the need to investigate the origins of COVID

On February 10, Scowcroft Strategy Initiative Nonresident Senior Fellow Jamie Metzl appeared on Fox News to discuss the need for a bipartisan 9/11-style commission investigating the origins of the COVID-19 virus. He asserts that the noncompliance of the Chinese governments is cause for worry, and further investigation is the best means to prepare for - or even stop - a future pandemic. Metzl stresses that this is a bipartisan issue that has seen agreement and consensus among members of both sides of the aisle. He also notes the lack of transparency on the part of the NIH in the work they were minimally funding in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

China Coronavirus

In the News

Feb 16, 2023

Gadzala Tirziu in The New York Sun on Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s role as “Europe’s gatekeeper”

On February 9, Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu published a piece in The New York Sun on the role of Italy's new Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in securing Western European borders. To curb the entry of migrants, the Meloni administration has recently taken measures to complicate migrant-aid services, such as the work of charity ships that ferry migrants across the Mediterranean.

Italy Migration