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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

Mar 20, 2026

Carpenter in Foreign Affairs: The postliberal superpower

By Atlantic Council

Politics & Diplomacy Security & Defense

In the News

Mar 20, 2026

Bociurkiw in the Globe and Mail: Ukraine has earned the right to shape its own future. Washington and Moscow are denying it that right

By Atlantic Council

Europe & Eurasia Russia

In the News

Mar 20, 2026

Bociurkiw in the Globe and Mail: Four years into the war, Ukraine has endured – and it has been transformed

By Atlantic Council

Conflict Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Mar 20, 2026

Tannebaum quoted in New York Times article on lifted sanctions on some Iranian oil

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In the News

Mar 20, 2026

Lipsky and Lichfield interviewed on Czech TV Nova on how the global economy functions under the influence of geopolitics

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In the News

Mar 19, 2026

Shedd in the Washington Times: Baltic Security Initiative an investment in US defense

By Atlantic Council

Defense Policy Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Mar 19, 2026

Kaluderovic in Foreign Policy: The drone attrition tap

By Atlantic Council

Defense Industry Defense Technologies

In the News

Mar 19, 2026

Kaluderovic in Fox News: Trump’s strike on Iran deals a major blow to Putin’s war machine in Ukraine

By Atlantic Council

Conflict Defense Industry

In the News

Mar 19, 2026

Gongadze in Ukrainska Pravda: “Europe at war.” Friends of Europe’s warning shot

By Atlantic Council

Conflict Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Mar 19, 2026

Lipsky cited in CNN article on the Iran war’s global economic impact and Europe’s reaction to severed Gulf energy access

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