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May 16, 2018

Atlantic Council Global Energy Center Launches Task Force on US Nuclear Energy Leadership, Led by Co-Chairs Senator Crapo and Senator Whitehouse

WASHINGTON, DC – The Atlantic Council Global Energy Center today launched its Task Force on US Nuclear Energy Leadership, led by honorary co-chairs Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), leaders in nuclear energy policy. “There is strong bipartisan agreement in Congress that nuclear energy is a reliable, safe, clean and efficient part […]

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May 14, 2018

Atlantic Council announces honorees for 2018 Freedom Awards

The Atlantic Council honors Dr. Madeleine Albright, Aryana Sayeed, Bana Alabed, and the International Women’s Media Foundation with its annual Freedom Awards on June 23 in Berlin, Germany.


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May 9, 2018

Centro para América Latina Adrienne Arsht del Atlantic Council celebra su quinto aniversario

Con la crisis en Venezuela, la renegociación de NAFTA y las elecciones presidenciales en la región, el trabajo del Centro se ha convertido aún más indispensable WASHINGTON, DC – El Centro para América Latina Adrienne Arsht del Atlantic Council celebra cinco años desde su fundación en un periodo de grandes cambios en el hemisferio oeste. […]


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May 9, 2018

Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Marks Five Years

Center’s ongoing work will be critical as Venezuela crisis worsens, a modernized NAFTA is eventually finalized, and region welcomes a new wave of leaders WASHINGTON, DC – The Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center today begins its five-year celebration at a time of great transformations for the hemisphere. In its first five years, the Center deployed a […]

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Apr 30, 2018

Atlantic Council Announces 2018 Distinguished Leadership Awards

WASHINGTON, DC – The Atlantic Council will honor former President George W. Bush; Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander, US European Command General Curtis M. Scaparrotti; seven-time Grammy Award winner Gloria Estefan; and Executive Chairman of Starbucks Corporation Howard Schultz with its annual Distinguished Leadership Awards on the evening of May 10 in Washington, DC. […]

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Mar 26, 2018

Professor Matthew Kroenig Joins the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center as Deputy Director for Strategy

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Today, the Atlantic Council announced that Dr. Matthew Kroenig has been named the deputy director for strategy in its flagship Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Dr. Kroenig is also a tenured associate professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University. He previously served in several positions in the US government, including in the […]

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Mar 22, 2018

Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative Sixth Annual Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge Concludes in Washington, DC

The Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge is a one-of-a-kind competition designed to provide students across academic disciplines with a deeper understanding of the policy challenges associated with cyber crisis and conflict. Part interactive learning experience and part competitive scenario exercise, it challenges teams to respond to a realistic, evolving cyberattack and analyze the threat it poses to national, international, and private sector interests.

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Mar 15, 2018

Atlantic Council and MPAA Host Special Screening of 12 Strong; Discussion on US Policy in Afghanistan

The evening highlights the “power of storytelling to foster dialogue around the world” WASHINGTON, DC – The Atlantic Council and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) on March 15 held a private screening of 12 Strong, the incredible story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11. The event included an […]

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Mar 1, 2018

Atlantic Council Names Klara Jordan as Director of Cyber Statecraft Initiative

WASHINGTON, DC – The Atlantic Council today announced Klara Jordan as Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative in its Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Ms. Jordan will play a pivotal role in re-invigorating the Initiative’s work on cyberspace as a tool of statecraft, where national security overlaps with foreign policy and economic prosperity, while […]

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Feb 14, 2018

Richard Stengel named Distinguished Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab

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The Atlantic Council today announced Richard Stengel as a Distinguished Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (@DFRLab).

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Sep 9, 2015

Atlantic Council / Zurich Insurance Report Finds the Global Benefits of Cyber Connectivity Expected to Outweigh Costs by $160 Trillion through 2030

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The Atlantic Council, in collaboration with Zurich Insurance Group and the Pardee Center for International Futures, released a report today that examines the economic impact of cyber costs versus the benefits of interconnectivity under an array of complex scenarios. Written by Jason Healey of the Atlantic Council and Barry B. Hughes of the University of […]

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Sep 9, 2015

Atlantic Council Launches Network of Global Energy Center Fellows

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WASHINGTON, DC – Over the past several months, the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center has been expanding its network of nonresident fellows, adding thirteen new thought leaders who bring to the Council wide-ranging expertise on today’s most pressing global energy challenges and opportunities.  

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Aug 3, 2015

Bharath Gopalaswamy Named Director of the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center

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WASHINGTON, DC – The Atlantic Council today named Bharath Gopalaswamy as the new Director of its South Asia Center, effective immediately.

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Jul 22, 2015

Application Opens for Year Two of Atlantic Council Veterans Take Point Initiative

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The Atlantic Council is taking the lead in developing the next generation of veteran foreign policy leaders. Through an intensive fellowship program dubbed “Take Point”, the Council and Bob Woodruff Foundation will offer professional training, networking, engagement with senior foreign policy heavyweights such as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Gov. Jon Huntsman, and General […]

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Jul 17, 2015

Atlantic Council Iran Task Force Voices Support of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) While Urging Vigilant Implementation

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The Iran Task Force of the Atlantic Council supports the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) announced in Vienna this week and applauds the bold intent and intense efforts of President Barack Obama and his team of diplomats and scientists who worked so hard to bring it to fruition.

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Jul 14, 2015

Atlantic Council Report Calls for Cuba’s Economic Reintegration

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Days before the opening of the US Embassy in Havana, the Atlantic Council’s Latin America Center launched a new report today that provides a ten point roadmap for Cuba’s reintegration into the global economy.  Key to the success of this effort will be to push for a reengagement between Cuba and the international financial institutions […]

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Jul 9, 2015

The Atlantic Council and The Fletcher School Commit to Exclusive Partnership

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The Atlantic Council and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University announced a new partnership today that will link the organizations across a full range of substantive issue areas in a number of forms including faculty/scholar exchanges, joint programs between centers, cohosted conferences and workshops, and multi-media outreach. This will be the […]

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Jul 2, 2015

Presidential Candidate Lindsey Graham to Discuss Global Security Threats at the Atlantic Council

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The Atlantic Council is pleased to welcome Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on July 8 at 10:00 a.m. for the first of a series of events on “America’s Role in the World.” Senator Graham will discuss rising global security threats, including Iranian nuclear ambitions and the spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIL).

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Jul 1, 2015

Atlantic Council Experts Urge President Obama to Use Today’s Announcement to Finish the Job on US-Cuba Opening

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In an open letter to President Obama, Peter Schechter, Director, and Jason Marczak, Deputy Director, of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council, urge that the time is now to  seize the momentum of recent policy changes toward Cuba and fully reignite relations by pushing the current session of Congress to end […]

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Jun 23, 2015

David Barno and Nora Bensahel to Add National Security Expertise to Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center

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The Atlantic Council today named international security experts Dr. Nora Bensahel and retired Lieutenant General David Barno as Nonresident Senior Fellows for military affairs and national security policy in its Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security.