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Dec 15, 2014

Addressing the food, water, and energy nexus: transatlantic perspectives and Africa’s great chance

By Peter Engelke

Addressing the Food, Water, and Energy Nexus: Transatlantic Perspectives and Africa’s Great Chance, a joint collaboration between the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and the Strategic Foresight Initiative of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, examines how Africa can best leverage its food, water, and energy resources for sustainable development.

Africa Energy & Environment

Issue Brief

Oct 3, 2014

Diplomacy for a diffuse world

By Roxanne Cabral, Peter Engelke, Katherine Brown, and Anne Terman Wedner

“Diplomacy for a Diffuse World,” the latest from the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative, in partnership with the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, examines how key global trends—the diffusion of power and the rise of individual empowerment—significantly impact the way the United States government must conduct diplomacy.

Civil Society Politics & Diplomacy

FutureSource

Apr 10, 2014

The US and the World Gather in Medellin

By Peter Engelke

This week, Medellin, Colombia is hosting the World Urban Forum, the 7th iteration of the United Nation’s biannual conference series dedicated to the world’s cities. Some 25,000 people from everywhere on Earth are gathering at “WUF7” to discuss the governance challenges, and the unlimited opportunities, that are found in the world’s cities. The scale and […]

Peter Engelke is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security as well as a senior fellow with its Global Energy Center. His diverse work portfolio spans strategic foresight, innovation and technological disruption, geopolitics and hard security, climate change and Earth systems, and urbanization, among other topics. Engelke’s work has appeared in or featured in the Washington PostLos Angeles Times, Financial Times, NBC News, CBS News, the Hill, the National Interest, Citiscope, Meeting of the Minds, Inkstick, the World Economic Forum, and other outlets. He is on the adjunct faculty at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies, where he is a recipient of the Tropaia Outstanding Faculty Award, and is a frequent lecturer at the US Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Previously, Engelke was an executive-in-residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy; a Bosch fellow with the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart, Germany; and a visiting fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington. He received his PhD in history from Georgetown University and master’s degrees from Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, the University of Maryland, and Indiana University. Engelke has co-authored two books, The Great Acceleration, a global environmental history, and Health and Community Design, a study of public health and urban form.