Category: Uncategorized

Top News: Tunisia’s Lawmakers End Days of Legislative Uncertainty, Elect Speaker and Deputies

Mohamed Nasri, candidate for Nidaa Tounes, was elected late Thursday as speaker of the newly elected Tunisian parliament, the Assembly of People’s Representatives. Nasri, who ran unopposed was elected with 176 votes and will lead the country’s first post-revolution parliament for a five year term.

Navigating the challenges of the changing global energy landscape

The global energy landscape has not been this uncertain in decades. Policy- and technology-driven change has created the prospect of “peak oil demand”—the moment when global demand for oil reaches its zenith and begins to recede—but no one can say for certain when or if this will occur. Shale oil in the United States continues […]

TTIP Action | November 20

By Global Business & Economics Program

New European Union Ambassador David O’Sullivan Presents His Credentials“TTIP is a once in a generation opportunity to strengthen the greatest economic corridor in the world and give a significant boost to global trade.”At the beginning of this week, Ambassador David O’Sullivan presented his credentials to President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony, formally assuming […]

Ullman: The Flaw in Obama’s Plan to Destroy the Islamic State

By Harlan Ullman

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman writes for Huffington Post on the US administration’s plan for combatting the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham:

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

{loadposition initiatives-middle-east-peace}

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 […]

About

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