The US-Colombia partnership: From Venezuela’s crisis to counter-narcotics efforts

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Experts react: Israel has hit back at Iran with airstrikes. Is this the road to war or an off-ramp?

By Atlantic Council experts

Our experts share their insights on what Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Iran could mean for the prospect of further Israeli-Iranian escalation.
Conflict Crisis Management
The US-Colombia partnership: From Venezuela’s crisis to counter-narcotics efforts

New Atlanticist Oct 1, 2024

Four questions (and expert answers) about Israel’s ground operation in Lebanon

By Shalom Lipner

Shalom Lipner, a former advisor to seven consecutive Israeli prime ministers, answers the burning questions about Israel’s strategy and what the US should do.
Conflict Crisis Management
The US-Colombia partnership: From Venezuela’s crisis to counter-narcotics efforts

New Atlanticist Sep 19, 2024

The Sudan crisis has become a magnet for foreign malign influence and strategic corruption

By Andrea Currie-Edwards

To help bring about an end to the war in Sudan, the United States should stem the illicit activities of foreign actors fueling the conflict.
Conflict Corruption

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Event Recap

Jul 16, 2019

The US-Colombia partnership: From Venezuela’s crisis to counter-narcotics efforts

By Bryan Wilensky

The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, in partnership with the United States Institute for Peace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Latin America Program, and the Inter-American Dialogue, hosted H.E. Carlos Holmes Trujillo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, for a discussion on the future of US-Colombia relations. The conversation was moderated […]

Colombia
Conflict

In the News

Apr 1, 2019

Wieslander in European Leadership Network: A new Strategic Concept for NATO’s 70th birthday?

By Atlantic Council

Conflict
Crisis Management

New Atlanticist

Oct 25, 2018

Trident juncture: NATO’s crisis response put to the test

By Clementine G. Starling

Military forces from thirty-one countries, including all twenty-nine NATO members, plus Finland and Sweden, are participating in Trident Juncture, a major demonstration and test of NATO’s collective response to a fictional armed attack against an allied member state.

Crisis Management
NATO

New Atlanticist

Oct 18, 2018

Championing the frontlines of freedom

By Damon Wilson

Russia aims to establish a permanent grey zone between itself and NATO and the EU. But Moscow is learning that the people of the region have a say—and they won’t have it.

Crisis Management
Eastern Europe

New Atlanticist

Oct 3, 2018

South Sudan’s first vice president optimistic about peace, but no one is buying It

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The almost 400,000 people killed over the past five years “is a higher mortality rate vis-à-vis population than the civil war in Syria,” said J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center.

Conflict
Crisis Management

New Atlanticist

Sep 10, 2018

Has Trump shut the door to Middle East peace with closure of Palestinian office?

By David Wemer

The decision to close the PLO office is seen by some as a reflection of the Trump administration’s growing frustration to secure a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians—even as the administration is set to unveil its proposed “deal of the century.”

Crisis Management
Israel

New Atlanticist

Sep 7, 2018

The war in Syria: A battle looms in Idlib

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Idlib’s population has almost doubled to around three million as tens of thousands of Syrians trapped in other parts of the country were evacuated there under various ceasefire agreements with the Assad regime. Now there are few safe spaces to which they can flee.

Conflict
Crisis Management

MENASource

May 11, 2018

Killing the JCPOA: Opportunity missed?

By Frederic C. Hof

As reported previously by this writer, senior Iranian former officials repeatedly told him and other Americans in unofficial, track II discussions preceding the nuclear deal, that Iran had no intention of weaponizing nuclear energy. The reason offered had nothing to do with Koranic proscriptions. To paraphrase one of the Iranian ex-officials, “Look at all we […]

Crisis Management
Iran

Issue Brief

Feb 20, 2018

Shaping strategy for comprehensive and effective Western policy in Eastern Europe

By Maksym Khylko

This issue brief examines the strategies that the West can employ to combat the Kremlin's challenges to regional security and the rule of law in Eastern Europe.

Crisis Management
Eastern Europe

Issue Brief

Feb 20, 2018

Shaping strategy for comprehensive and effective Western policy in Eastern Europe

By Maksym Khylko

“The West’s failure to respond to Russia’s breaches of international law demonstrates weakness and undermines US credibility,” writes Dr. Maksym Khylko, in “Shaping Strategy for Comprehensive and Effective Western Policy in Eastern Europe,” a new issue brief by the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. In the past ten years, Russia has invaded Georgia and Ukraine, illegally […]

Crisis Management
Eastern Europe
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Alex Plitsas

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Afghanistan Crisis Management

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Patrick Quirk

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Freedom and Prosperity Center GeoStrategy Initiative

Civil Society Conflict

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Sue Ramanathan

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoStrategy Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Crisis Management Democratic Transitions

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Matthew Rose

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoTech Center

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Aparupa Sengupta

Senior Program Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Millennium Leadership Program

Coronavirus Crisis Management

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Rudabeh Shahid

Nonresident Senior Fellow, India

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