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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

May 30, 2021

Liubakova joins Fareed Zakaria GPS to discuss Belarus plane hijacking

Hanna Liubakova joins Fareed Zakaria GPS to discuss the arrest of journalist Roman Protasevic at the Minsk airport.

Belarus Europe & Eurasia

In the News

May 30, 2021

Busch in The Hill: Uncorking Canada’s import measures on wine

By Marc L. Busch

Marc Busch writes that an EU-Canada dispute over wine is emblematic of the challenges that undermining preferential trade agreements pose to the WTO.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

In the News

May 29, 2021

Kramer in The National Interest discussing NATO’s deterrent role in the Indo-Pacific

By Franklin D. Kramer

On May 29, Atlantic Council Board Director and Distinguished Fellow Franklin D. Kramer authored an article for The National Interest arguing that NATO needs to come to grips with the reality that there are now two major contested theaters—the Indo-Pacific region and Europe—and members need to increase their involvement in each.

Europe & Eurasia Indo-Pacific

In the News

May 28, 2021

Kroenig and Ashford explore a Western response to Belarus’s act of air piracy

By Atlantic Council

On May 28, Foreign Policy published a biweekly column featuring Scowcroft Center deputy director Matthew Kroenig and New American Engagement Initiative senior fellow Emma Ashford discussing the latest news in international affairs. In this column, they discussed how the West should respond to Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko’s arrest of dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, the U.S. role in the […]

Belarus China

In the News

May 28, 2021

Haring in The National Interest: Why the New York Times Is Getting Ukrainegate Wrong

By Atlantic Council

Belarus Civil Society

In the News

May 28, 2021

Slavin quoted in VOA on reviving the JCPOA

By Atlantic Council

Elections Iran

In the News

May 28, 2021

LeBaron joins Tulsa to discuss forging a new model for US engagement in the Middle East

By Atlantic Council

Economy & Business Energy & Environment

In the News

May 28, 2021

Wieslander as a panelist at Chatham House – “What role for the E3 in European foreign and security policy?”

Europe & Eurasia Security & Defense

In the News

May 27, 2021

Preble on the Net Assessment podcast: Middle class foreign policy

By Atlantic Council

On May 27, Christopher Preble and co-hosts discussed President Biden’s “foreign policy for the middle class”, focusing on Charles Kupchan and Peter Trubowitz’s recent article “Why an Internationalist Foreign Policy Needs a Stronger Domestic Foundation.” They questioned who, exactly, is in the “middle class,” whether certain positions on foreign policy are pro- or anti-middle class, if […]

English Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

May 27, 2021

Katz quoted in Middle East Eye on Russia desire to see the deterioration of relations between the US and Middle Eastern allies

By Atlantic Council

Economy & Business Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion