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New Atlanticist

Jul 8, 2025

It’s not just hard power and soft power that matter. ‘Resilience power’ is every bit as essential.

By Elizabeth Sizeland

Without the ability to function under pressure, even the most sophisticated military and diplomatic strategies will falter.

Crisis Management Resilience

Report

Jul 8, 2025

For the US and the free world, security demands a resilience-first approach

By Elizabeth Sizeland

This report is the foundational document of the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative and outlines a bold vision to embed resilience as a core pillar of US and allied security. As crises compound, this report calls for investing across individual, institutional, and international levels of resilience to withstand, adapt, and thrive amid disruption. 

Crisis Management Cybersecurity

New Atlanticist

Jun 24, 2025

The ‘ironclad’ US-South Korea alliance is outdated. A new age requires a ‘titanium’ alliance.

By Markus Garlauskas

Washington and Seoul must set a new foundation for the seventy-year-old alliance that reflects the current strategic environment.

Crisis Management Defense Policy

In the News

Jun 20, 2025

Charai in the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune: Mr. President, the Time to Strike Is Now

By Atlantic Council

Conflict Crisis Management

New Atlanticist

Jun 19, 2025

If diplomacy and Israel’s efforts fall short, Trump should bomb Fordow to end the war

By Jonathan Panikoff

At the end of the current war, Iran will have a viable nuclear program, or it won’t. The future of the Middle East will be driven by the answer.

Conflict Crisis Management

Fast Thinking

Jun 13, 2025

Assessing the fallout from Israel’s extraordinary attack on Iran 

By Atlantic Council

As Iran responded with a wave of drones and Israel continued to hit military sites on Friday, we turned to our experts to explore what comes next.

Conflict Crisis Management

In the News

Jun 13, 2025

Zier in Military Times analyzes US military deployment at southern border

On May 28, Caroline Zier, nonresident senior fellow in the GeoStrategy Initiative, was published in the Military Times examining the Trump administration’s policy of using miliary personnel at the US southern border. Zier argues that the military’s “unprecedented” role at the border diverts time and resources from national security operations that “only the military can perform” […]

Crisis Management National Security

Podcast

Jun 9, 2025

“Yes, really”: American private military companies (back) in Gaza

By Alia Brahimi

In Season 2, Episode 11 of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joined by international lawyer and former senior UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber to discuss Israel’s militarization of aid in Gaza and how US private military companies (PMC) and individual contractors could be held legally liable for their association with […]

Conflict Crisis Management

Report

Jun 2, 2025

The fall of Assad has opened a door. But can Syria seize the moment?

By Qutaiba Idlbi, Charles Lister, and Marie Forestier

This report presents a realistic and holistic vision for Syria's transition, recovery, and its reintegration into the international system.

Civil Society Crisis Management

New Atlanticist

May 19, 2025

Amid India-Pakistan tensions, the US must rebalance its security priorities in South Asia

By Srujan Palkar and Mrittika Guha Sarkar

The United States should make Pakistan’s Major non-NATO Ally status contingent on Islamabad’s counterterrorism performance and economic reform.

Crisis Management Defense Policy

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