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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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In the News

Apr 27, 2021

Garlauskas’s proposal featured in RUSI report on North Korea

A report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), based in the UK, discussing sanctions on North Korea featured Markus Garlauskas’s proposal on a new framework for assessing the effectiveness of sanctions on North Korea which he elaborated in a 38 North article.

Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion Korea

In the News

Apr 27, 2021

Murtazashvili launches new report on Afghanistan’s constitutional order

By Atlantic Council

Civil Society Corruption

In the News

Apr 27, 2021

The case for a more realist China policy

By Atlantic Council

For Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Dr. Mathew Burrows, Director of the Atlantic Council's Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative, and Atlantic Council Resident Fellow Julian Mueller-Kaler argue that it is high time to understand that by any measure, from demographics to economics, the world is no longer Western centric and that US strategy must be forward looking, not rest on past laurels.

China Conflict

In the News

Apr 27, 2021

Warrick in CBS News on domestic violent extremism

By Atlantic Council

Forward Defense and Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Programs Nonresident Senior Fellow Thomas S. Warrick was quoted in an article in CBS News titled "Homeland Security launches internal probe of domestic violent extremism."

Defense Policy Extremism

Future of DHS

Apr 26, 2021

Warrick in the Washington Post on extremism within DHS

By Atlantic Council

Forward Defense Nonresident Senior Fellow Thomas S. Warrick was quoted in an article in the Washington Post titled "Homeland Security launches review of violent extremism within agency."

Defense Policy Extremism

In the News

Apr 26, 2021

Starr in Foreign Policy: Georgian Democracy Stumbles Onward After Parliament Deal

By Atlantic Council

Democratic Transitions The Caucasus

In the News

Apr 26, 2021

Sherman and Herr in Council on Foreign Relations: the US should make “leverage” the foundation of its cyber strategy

The SolarWinds incident spurred a flurry of debates about whether the U.S. Department of Defense’s 2018 “defend forward” strategy should, or could, have prevented the calamity. Putting aside that the Russian operation was cyber espionage—stealing data rather than denying, disrupting, degrading, or destroying systems—some of these arguments reflected an idea that the United States should […]

Cybersecurity

In the News

Apr 26, 2021

Busch in The Hill: EU tariff retaliation throttles Harley-Davidson

By Marc L. Busch

Marc Busch writes in The Hill that EU tariffs on Harley-Davidson are another example as to why US steel and aluminum tariffs need to be ended before another round of EU tariffs in June and July.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Apr 25, 2021

Azodi quoted in the New York Times about Zarif’s leaked tape

Elections Iran

In the News

Apr 24, 2021

Slavin quoted in VOA on Iranian presidential elections

Elections Iran