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Mar 30, 2015
Atlantic Council Welcomes 2015 Next Generation Fellows
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Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security is pleased to announce the 2015 US-German Next Generation Fellows. The fellows are at the center of a Scowcroft Center project launched in February 2015 to identify new voices from the United States and Germany who will formulate a strategy and foster a debate on how […]
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Mar 25, 2015
Atlantic Council Honors Afghan President Ashraf Ghani for “Transformative” Leadership
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Atlantic Council
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani capped his successful, inaugural visit to the United States on Wednesday evening by receiving the Atlantic Council’s highest honor, its Distinguished Leadership Award for political leadership, in a special ceremony before NATO’s top leaders and ambassadors from dozens of alliance countries.
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Mar 19, 2015
Atlantic Council Cyber Statecraft Initiative Concludes Third Annual Student Cyber-Policy Competition
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Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council’s third annual Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge was held on March 13-14 in Washington, DC. Twenty teams competed to offer their best national-security policy prescriptions for combating increasing cyber conflict. Student competitors came from Arizona State University, Brown University, Columbia University, Harvard Law School, the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, National Defense University and […]
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Mar 18, 2015
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Supreme Allied Commander Transformation General Paloméros to Anchor the NATO Transformation Seminar on the Key Challenges Leading Up to the NATO Warsaw Summit
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Atlantic Council
The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) General Jean-Paul Paloméros will address this year’s NATO Transformation Seminar (NTS) on March 25, 2015 at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, DC. This will be the first public address of the NATO Secretary General in the United States.
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Mar 13, 2015
Atlantic Council Conference to Open in New Delhi on US-India Relations
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Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center, in partnership with the US Embassy in New Delhi, Vivekananda International Foundation, and the Confederation of Indian Industry, will be hosting “India-US 2015: Partnering for Peace and Prosperity” from Monday, March 16 to Tuesday, March 17 at the Vivekananda International Foundation located in New Delhi, India.
Press Release
Mar 12, 2015
Atlantic Council Launches New Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative on America’s Role in the World
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Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council today launched a new strategy initiative aimed at helping the United States work with its allies and partners to lead in an increasingly turbulent world. The initiative, housed in the Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, will address strategic issues related to US leadership and help catalyze a national debate on […]
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Mar 10, 2015
Secretary of State John Kerry to Deliver Remarks at the Atlantic Council’s “Road to Paris Climate Series”
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Atlantic Council
US Secretary of State John Kerry will address an invitation-only audience at the Atlantic Council on March 12 at 9:00 a.m. to discuss the importance of the 2015 Conference of the Parties (COP21) climate change negotiations.
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Feb 19, 2015
Navy Pilot Ben Kohlmann Wins Top Prize in Inaugural Atlantic Council Take Point Initiative Competition, with former Marine Corps Captain Amanda Burke and 82nd Airborne Paratrooper Zachary McDonald as Finalists
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Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council’s Millennium Leadership Program, in partnership with the Bob Woodruff Foundation, is proud to announce Navy F/A-18 pilot Benjamin Kohlmann and his initiative, the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum (DEF), as the winner of the inaugural Take Point Initiative Competition. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges from the ten projects proposed by each of […]
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Feb 3, 2015
Atlantic Council Launches EconoGraphics: A Weekly Take on the Global Economy
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Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council is launching today the EconoGraphics series—a weekly take on important issues pertaining to the global economy. EconoGraphics, a project of the Council’s Global Business and Economics Program, aims to present complex economic and political ideas visually in a simple and intuitive fashion for policymakers and the media. Through this new medium, the […]
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Feb 2, 2015
Former Senior US Officials Urge US and NATO to Increase Military Assistance to Ukraine Including Defensive Arms
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Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council, the Brookings Institution, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs today released a report entitled, “Preserving Ukraine’s Independence, Resisting Russian Aggression: What the United States and NATO Must Do.” The report, authored by eight former senior U.S. diplomatic and military officials, urges the U.S. and NATO to bolster Ukraine’s defense and deter […]