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Combating the Ebola Outbreak

By Atlantic Council

Featured Experts

By Atlantic Council

Featured Experts NICHOLAS BLANFORD is a nonresident senior fellow with the Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Blanford covers the politics and security affairs of Lebanon and Syria. He is an acknowledged expert on Lebanese Hezbollah, particularly the organization’s evolving military activities which have remained a focus of […]

Middle East Peace and Security Initiative

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Natural Gas: A New Hope for TPP

By Katelyn Lamson

Though squabbles over automobiles and agricultural products appear to have stalled negotiations for the time being, all hope for a deal is far from lost. Indeed, there is one issue that might prove the lynchpin of concluding negotiations: energy. A free trade agreement that includes an element of national treatment of liquefied natural gas has […]

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By The Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council launched an initiative in July 2014 to assess the strategic implications of the rise of non-state actors, with particular emphasis in the Middle East, and transnational security implications for the United States, its allies, partners, and adversaries. This page is the home of the Atlantic Council’s work on this initiative, specifically the […]

Investment and Ingenuity: Overcoming Obstacles to Doing Business in Sub-Saharan Africa

ISIS and the Crumbling Middle East

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TTIP and a new Report on TPP

Today’s blog entry focuses on news on TTIP, more specifically on the debate surrounding the ISDS mechanism and rights and labor standards under TTIP from an American perspective. In addition, the blog covers the launch of a new report named “Bridging the Pacific- Americas’ new Frontier?”, researched and issued by the Atlantic Council. Bridging the […]

African Leaders Summit

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