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May 27, 2021

Kabul and a peace process divided

By Atlantic Council

Please join the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center on Tuesday, June 1 at 10:00 AM US EST / 6:30 PM AFT for a conversation about developments in Kabul related to the ongoing peace process.

Afghanistan Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

Testimony

May 25, 2021

Herr testifies to the Investigations and Oversight and Research and Technology subcommittees on improving the cybersecurity of software supply chains

On May 25, 2021, Trey Herr, Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, testified to the House Science, Space, and Technology subcommittees on Investigations and Oversight and Research and Technology on improving the cybersecurity of software supply chains following SolarWinds.

Cybersecurity

Blog Post

May 4, 2021

The global economic recovery is a concerning tale of two worlds

By Jeff Goldstein

The global economy is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic faster than expected. However, advanced and low-income developing countries are recovering at different rates. This divergence creates serious economic risks in the short and long term for all countries, even those recovering well like the United States.

China Economy & Business

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May 3, 2021

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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

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Apr 23, 2021

#94: Shift the Landscape for Adversaries After Sunburst

By: Emma Schroeder and Will Loomis What is the kernel of the issue? Information sharing on cybersecurity issues between industry and government is all the rage, but to what end? While much of the last decade of debate over how and when to share information in cybersecurity has focused on responding to a crisis, the […]

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Apr 17, 2021

#88: Adopt a New Atlantic Charter

By: Ambassador Daniel Fried and Ash Jain What is the kernel of the issue? The world is poised between democracy and autocracy. Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China has emerged as the single greatest challenger to a democratic world order.  The Kremlin is executing its own strategy to undermine democratically-elected governments. Meanwhile, political dysfunction […]

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Apr 16, 2021

#87: Maintain a Competitive Global Monetary Edge

By: Ronald A. Marks What is the kernel of the issue? The United States Dollar has been the central currency of the world since World War II. China, soon to displace the US as the world’s largest economy, is now rapidly pushing forward a central bank digital currency (CBDC) meant to give a 21st-century technical […]

Past events

Apr 5, 2021

Event recap: “Whose voices count on Afghanistan? The politics of knowledge production”

By South Asia Center

On April 1, 2021, the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center hosted an event on the politics of knowledge production in Afghanistan and how we can make the policy space more representative and reflective of the peoples, histories, and realities on the ground.

Afghanistan Civil Society

100 Ideas for the first 100 days

Mar 23, 2021

#63: Conduct Strategy Exercises on the Impact of an Indo-Pacific Conflict on European Security

By: Hans Binnendijk What is the kernel of the issue? The United States has security commitments in both Europe and the Indo-Pacific region, meaning that major new security developments in either region could force US attention to concentrate on one area at the expense of the other.   Why is the issue important? China is the […]