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Scholl Quoted in Foreign Policy on Moscow Wielding the Energy Weapon

By Ellen Scholl

Security

Water and US National SecurityThe project is designed to answer a core question—how should American strategists incorporate water into US national security objectives? The goal is to determine the concrete actionable steps necessary to integrate water into policy toward regions of high geostrategic relevance to the United States, with a particular focus on Asia’s water […]

Energy, Trade, & Industry

Shaping the Asia-Pacific FutureThis project seeks to formulate practical policy recommendations related to some of the most pressing and fundamental requirements for long-term security and prosperity in the region. It focuses on the development of durable understandings and measures affecting strategic military stability, and on fostering effective institutions and agreements supporting the open and rules-based […]

Geopolitics

Strengthening Atlantic-Pacific PartnershipsAn important requirement for sustaining and updating the open, rules-based order is cooperation among like-minded democracies in the US, Europe, and Asia. For a variety of historical, cultural and political reasons, there has been a tendency to consider Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific issues separately. Though the US has alliances in both the Atlantic and […]

Foresight & Strategy

Asia-Pacific Strategy Task ForceThe purpose of this task force is to develop a comprehensive, nonpartisan Asia-Pacific strategy for the United States and its allies and partners as described in a thirty to fifty page report. This Task Force is co-chaired by Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Chairman of the Atlantic Council, Victor L.L. Chu, CEO of […]

Outcomes Report of Atlantic Council’s Digital Single Market Event

By Ole Moehr

By Ole Moehr On December 6th, 2017, the Atlantic Council’s Global Business & Economics Program, the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, and the Delegation of the European Union to the United States co-hosted a public panel discussion to review the European Union’s Digital Single Market strategy in San Francisco, CA. The Digital Single Market’s (DSM) […]

Hellyer Quoted in Washington Times on Iran’s ‘Shiite Crescent’ across Middle East

By H.A. Hellyer

Itani Quoted in ABC on Saudi Arabia’s Dangerous Gambit with Lebanon

By Faysal Itani

About Rebuilding Syria

About The Rafik Hariri Center’s Rebuilding Syria project, directed by Senior Fellow Faysal Itani, aims to inform and advance transatlantic policy to foster a transition toward legitimate public order in Syria through economic reconstruction. As the two-year project comes to a close, the Hariri Center has pooled expertise from multiple specialists to cover the many […]