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Sep 18, 2013

IntelBrief: Guinea-Bissau: The World’s First Narco-State

By Zachary Feinstein

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Africa Center intern Zachary Feinstein analyzes Guinea-Bissau’s narco-corruption and political instability.Read the IntelBrief 

Africa North & West Africa

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Sep 17, 2013

China-US cooperation: key to the global future

By China-US Joint Working Group

China-US Cooperation: Key to the Global Future calls for the creation of a Vision Group of senior American and Chinese nongovernment and former government experts to build on the idea of a new great power relationship proposed by China’s President Xi Jinping.

China Chinese

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Sep 12, 2013

Big Data is changing your world… more than you know

By Banning Garrett

In the latest FutureScape brief from the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI) at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, SFI’s Senior Fellow for Innovation and Global Trends Banning Garrett assesses the ubiquity of big data and the opportunities and risks it poses to our lives.

Internet Technology & Innovation

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Sep 10, 2013

The United States, Russia, and Europe: Trilateral Security Dialogue in the Absence of Strategic Partnership

By Isabelle François

In the latest report from the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, entitled The United States, Russia, and Europe: Trilateral Security Dialogue in the Absence of Strategic Partnership, senior fellow Isabelle François explores the ways in which the United States and its allies must consider their relationship with Russia in the midst of new powers […]

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Sep 9, 2013

Is NATO Set to Go on Standby?

By Karl-Heinz Kamp

In the most recent Transatlantic Security Initiative issue brief, entitled “Is NATO Set to Go on Standby?” Research Director at the NATO Defense College Karl-Heinz Kamp asks whether NATO will maintain strategic relevance after withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2014.The author argues that when NATO withdraws from Afghanistan in 2014, it has the opportunity to focus once […]

NATO Security & Defense

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Sep 4, 2013

IntelBrief: Zimbabwe’s 2013 Elections

By Bronwyn Bruton and Kristen Smith

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Africa Center deputy director Bronwyn Bruton and assistant director Kristen Smith discusses the aftermath of Zimbabwe’s July 31st elections, which resulted in a landside win […]

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Sep 3, 2013

Universal Data Fusion: Enabling Cost-effective US/Russia/NATO Cooperative Missile Defense

By Patrick O’Reilly

As the proliferation of more capable missiles that threaten regional populations, governments, and commerce continues over the twenty-first century, so does the need to counter and disincentivize this proliferation with effective and affordable regional missile defenses. Missile defense systems are among the most expensive military capabilities, but author Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, USA (Ret.), a […]

Missile Defense Security & Defense

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Aug 29, 2013

The Libyan economy after the revolution: Still no clear vision

By Mohsin Khan and Karim Mezran

In the latest issue brief from the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center, authors Mohsin Khan and Karim Mezran evaluate the Libyan economy and progress since popular uprisings in February 2011 and the eventual ouster of the Muammar Qaddafi regime. Virtually all economic activity, especially oil production (the mainstay of the Libyan economy) witnessed a dramatic […]

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Aug 12, 2013

The Israeli experience in missile defense: Lessons for NATO

By Jean-Loup Samaan and Guillaume Lasconjarias

Jean-Loup Samaan and Guillaume Lasconjarias, research fellows at the NATO Defense College in Italy, outline in this issue brief for the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security what NATO can learn from the Israeli experience in missile defense. Samaan and Lasconjarias identify five domains where Israel’s missile defense experience may offer both helpful lessons and […]

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Aug 12, 2013

IntelBrief: The African Growth and Opportunity Act Revisited

By Adrienne Chuck

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Africa Center Assistant Director Adrienne Chuck writes on the twelfth African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) forum, which opens today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. If […]

Issue Brief

Aug 5, 2013

Jordan’s youth: Avenues for activism

By Danya Greenfield

In the latest issue brief from the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center, “Jordan’s Youth: Avenues for Activism,” author Danya Greenfield evaluates the role of Jordanian youth in political activism, and contends that youth will ultimately take the helm of political change given Jordan’s current political and economic climate. While Jordanians are focused on mounting pressures […]

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Jul 31, 2013

IntelBrief: Rising Sinophobia in Africa

By Adrienne Chuck

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Africa Center Assistant Director Adrienne Chuck argues that heightened public scrutiny of Chinese business activities by local communities has pushed African leaders to hold Chinese […]

Africa China

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Jul 29, 2013

Mutually Assured Stability: Establishing US-Russia Security Relations for a New Century

By Celeste Wallander

This Strategic Analysis issue brief, authored by Celeste Wallander, argues that the Mutually Assured Destruction concept which has dominated US-Russian security relations since the outset of the Cold War is neither an adequate nor cost-effective strategy to sustain stability in the twenty-first century. The optimal strategy for the United States and Russia is instead Mutually […]

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Jul 29, 2013

The Europe We Would Like to Inherit: Toward a Visionary New Pragmatism

By Muddassar Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Dustin Dehez, Spela Kranjc, and Ivo Sobral

In this report from the Council’s Young Atlanticist Program, five rising European leaders present their vision for a reenergized Europe that is capable of addressing new challenges in the twenty-first century and playing a positive role in global affairs. Download PDF

Europe & Eurasia

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Jul 29, 2013

Iran: How a third tier cyber power can still threaten the United States

By Barbara Slavin and Jason Healey

The Atlantic Council’s Iran Task Force and Cyber Statecraft Initiative have colaunched a new issue brief entitled “Iran: How a Third Tier Cyber Power Can Still Threaten the United States.” Written by South Asia Center Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin and Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey, the brief evaluates Iran’s cyber warfare capabilities and the […]

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Jul 24, 2013

A world run on algorithms?

By Banning Garrett

In the latest FutureScape brief from the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative (SFI) at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, SFI’s Senior Fellow for Innovation and Global Trends, Banning Garrett, assesses how algorithms now run much of our lives and in the future will be increasingly ubiquitous in ever more aspects of our personal and work life.

Technology & Innovation

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Jul 17, 2013

IntelBrief: Urbanization and Unrest in Africa

By Sam Fishman

In the latest in the series of “IntelBriefs” on African security issues being produced by the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in partnership with the Soufan Group, an international strategic consultancy, Africa Center Program Assistant Sam Fishman argues that in many African cities, the imbalance created by fast population growth and slow economic development has created […]

Africa

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Jul 15, 2013

Rising robotics and the Third Industrial Revolution

By Robert A. Manning

In the latest FutureScape brief from the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative in the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Senior Fellow Robert A. Manning assesses the onset of the era of robotics, one component of a technological transformation that is reshaping the world.

Resilience & Society Technology & Innovation

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Jul 11, 2013

Electoral politics under Tunisia’s new constitution

By Duncan Pickard

In the latest issue brief from the Rafik Hariri Center at the Atlantic Council, “Electoral Politics Under Tunisia’s New Constitution,” author Duncan Pickard assesses the challenges and likely outcomes for political parties in Tunisia after the completion of the country’s new constitution. Tunisians have been waiting for a new constitution to cement democratic order after […]

North Africa

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Jul 9, 2013

Global trends 2030: challenges and opportunities for Europe

By Robert A. Manning

Tailored to address the distinct challenges Europe faces, this report draws upon the US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds and provides further, in-depth analysis on the policy priorities and opportunities for Europe in the future.

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